Google Local Business center has been an essential tool for many businesses worldwide. Unfortunately not enough people are utilizing this essential tool to the best of its ability. Everyday I see hits come in to our website off of the Google local business search and to be quite honest these turn out to be the best clients that we receive (mostly because they are local).

Today I am gonna give everybody a couple of tips to maximize your search volume on Google’s Local Business Center. These are mostly common sense tips but they should help you go a long way.

First and foremost GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO SUCCEED IN THE LOCAL BUSINESS SEARCH, they make it very easy for you. They even give you guides on how to succeed.

With that out of the way lets look at some of the things that we have utilized in order to make our listing show up number 1 for SEO company and number 3 for SEO in our area as well as numerous other phrases that we rank internationally for.

1)Title Tag – As usual the title tag needs to be optimized to some extent with your company name as well as a keyword or two. For example our Title tag says:

Graphic SEO Maryland Marketing & SEO‎

This works well for us being as though it mentions SEO and Maryland marketing. These are 2 keywords that we focus very heavy on in the SERPS as well as the Local Business Center.

2) The Description – Your description should be as precise as possible when writing it for the Local Business Center. Do Not Be Spammy. Make it interesting and describe your company as best your can. Also make sure to sprinkle a couple of keywords in their wherever you can. Our description for our company is as follows:

We are an affordable international marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company located in Maryland. Our primary goals are PPC, Internet Marketing and SEO

3) Include All Details – Make sure to include every single piece of information that you can possible think of such as your payment info, hours of operation, phone number and every other little thing that you can think of.

4) Include Photos – Make sure to include photos of your business. This makes potential clients more comfortable with purchasing your goods or services. Remember if a client can see where you work from and verify that your business is legit then you have a much better chance of gaining that clients trust and when you gain clients trust that is 50% of the sale.

5) Additional Details – Google has this cool little field that lets you enter your additional details. You can pretty much add anything that your heart desires. For example our additional details include the following:

Viral Marketing: yes
SEO: yes
Social Media Marketing: yes
PPC: yes

These are a tremendous benefit when trying to rank well and should not be overlooked.

6) Reviews – Reviews help add content to your listing and build credibility. A good idea for getting reviews would be to ask your clients to go into your listing and review your company. This will definitely get the ball rolling.

7) Complete Listing – Also, please make sure that your listing is 100% complete when you are finished. This is the easiest way to not get the best possible SERP position in the Local Business Center.

Well these are my tips for ranking well on Google Local Business Center, if you have any experience to add please feel free to do so in the comment area.

I hope this helps some people out when trying to put together there listing.

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