Google Local Search Changes Make it Even MORE Important.
January 31st, 2007 by Jim
There was a big announcement that Google made yesterday on their Official Blog. They are now making local search a more prominent component of their search results.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/find-and-compare-local-businesses.html
What does this mean for you? If you’re not listed in their local business directory, you won’t get prominent placement at the top of Google’s search results. To test it out, type your city, state, and service in Google and you’ll see the new, big map that they created and are emphasizing. The businesses that are in this local list are the sudden recipients of a huge gift from Google - tons of highly qualified and desirable traffic.
The good news is that you can get the new clients that this change is providing. Part of the monthly hosting services that IVJR offers for our suite of products is constant monitoring of the latest in search engine technology. We are in the process of updating all of our existing sites to take advantage of Google’s newest change, and we will continue to do so in the future.
For more information on how you can take advantage of this great new source of clients, give us a call at 1-877-316-5166, or just e-mail us at info@ivjr.com.
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2 Comments
March 15th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
[…] I think this could be filed under “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” but it’s probably something more along the lines of everyone goes where the money is. AOL has just announced that they are offering a local search feature. Either way, the big online marketing players making a move into online search is a recurring theme. Yahoo and MSN followed Google’s lead and Google has even made their local search more prominent recently. […]
July 10th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
[…] If you operate a business that caters to your local community, more and more of your future, potential clients will be using the web, and local search specifically, to find your company. The search engines have focused on their local search directories recently to make sure that searchers looking for businesses in their area can easily find them. The time of big Yellow Pages is passing, Local Search is growing, and you need to make sure that the search engines know that you run a business catering to local clients. When we are adding websites of our clients to the local search engine directories, we use a list of local web directories that we have compiled over the past couple of years. Recently, we were able to toss out that list of web sites as we found a great web page that has a constantly updated listing of the local directories every local business needs to get their web site submitted to so that potential clients can find them. http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit.htm#localsearchenginesus […]
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