4.17.2010

Articles Worth Reading: How to Claim and Optimize Your Local Business Listings on Google, Yahoo, and Bing

(Web Biz Help Editor's Notes: This series of articles shows the huge importance of taking the time to create and/or capture your local listing. This is a very basic task that is commonly neglected, leaving a business listing either nonexistent, or scantily clad with little info other than name, number and street address. When clicking to this article at Web Article Today, be sure to start with Part 1.)

In order to maximize the chances of your business being visible on local searches, you optimize your website for local search. You'll also want to optimize the business profiles you may have at other websites and local listing profiles on various search engines.

How Do I Get Started in Local Search Optimization?

In this series of local search optimization articles, you'll find in-depth instructions on how to optimize your local search presence from start to finish.

  1. How to Optimize your Website for Local Search
  2. How to Claim your Local Business Listings on Major Search Engines
  3. 10 Steps to Building a Well Optimized Local Business Listing
  4. How to Promote and Syndicate Your Local Business Data
  5. How to Get Reviews and Citations for Your Local Business
  6. How to Purchase Local Pay Per Click Advertising

Local search is the fastest growing area of search today. Aside from offering an excellent return on your both your time and monetary investment, local search leads have proven to bring customers with higher than average intent to purchase your products or hire you for your services.

Read this article in its entirety at Web Marketing Today.

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