Google Local Maps Could Be Your Ticket to Success

Writing by Brick Marketing on Thursday, 7 of February , 2008 at 8:48 pm

With Google local maps starting to show up to ten results at a time, you have a better chance of getting your business into the first result for local searches now. Even if there is quite a bit of competition, it is still far easier than before.

Part of the reason that Google went to the higher number of business results is because most searchers didn´t realize they could view more results by clicking on the link below the top result. Before, getting your business into that top result meant you would basically get all the traffic, so if you were in the first place for Google local maps, you´re now going to have more competition, but for anyone who was appearing in the “more” results, this new format is great news.

With Google growing at an exponential rate, it would be daft to not consider getting your business on this mega search engine. Google local maps are already appearing on i-Phones and is the fifth most visited Google property. Though it only makes up 1.56% of all Google´s traffic in general, that still means a lot of people are looking at those maps in the search results and it can only grow from here. Now there are more options for using Google local maps and you need to get your business on it.  It will only better your local advertising efforts. 

                      Category: Google Local                      

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