Google Maps Rankings Outside Of Your City

by Craig on June 10, 2010

Are you a business that services cities outside your own, but only come up for the town of 1,000 people conveniently situated next to the town of 100,000.  Well, there’s finally a solution for that!  And it’s quite easy.  You just need to update your google local listing under “Service Areas and Location Settings”.  Here’s how:

In the “good old days”, business didn’t have much of an option besides shouting their message AT customers, instead of engaging them and building trust.  Today, social media allows for much more trust building, transparency, and personality.  Here’s a 10,000 foot view of the new paradigm of marketing for local small business on the internet.

Here’s a link to the book: Marketing 2.0 by Bernie Borges

Troubleshooting Google Maps — Duplicate Listings And How To Fix Them

June 10, 2010

Part two of a series on how to fix potential problems with your Google Maps listing.  Two listings of the same business will definitely hurt your ranking and here’s how to fix it!

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Troubleshooting Google Maps – Duplicate Addresses Or Phone Numbers

May 26, 2010

If you’ve done all the basics to get your business ranked in Google Maps, yet you still don’t see results, this could be the problem.
It’s pretty hard to spot if you don’t know what to look for, and it’s simple to correct once you figure out what’s up!
This is one of two major problems that [...]

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GLF #4 – The Importance Of Online Customer Review And How To Get Them

August 13, 2009

Hi Folks!  Today I’m here to preach the word of online reviews.
Gone are the days of blindly picking a name out of a hat (the yellow pages) and seeing how it works out.  The internet allows for a nearly unlimited amount of information to be disseminated about your business, not only from you but from [...]

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GLF #3 – My 5 Favorite Tricks To Make Your Google Maps Listing Stand Out

August 5, 2009

Hello again!  Now that you’ve got your local Google listing up and running, it’s time to make it great!
These are the top 5 things I do to make the listings of my private clients stand out, and they work wonders.  Again, this is because most business owners SIMPLY DO NOTHING!
However, that’s not you.  Here’s what [...]

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GLF #2 – Why Does No One Do This?!

August 3, 2009

It’s so easy! In this episode, I show you an easy and super effective tip to start boosting your rating on Google’s local search results.
If you don’t yet know how important those results are, be sure to check out the first video, which should convince you.
What’s the tip you ask? Here it is: registering your [...]

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GLF #1 More Than You’d Think – How Many People Are Searching For Businesses Like Yours In Your Area

August 2, 2009

Hi Folks! – Our first episode is now live on youtube.  It’s all about finding out the amount potential business waiting in the marketplace that is looking for your business via the web.
This tip will show you exactly how you can find that out, in a scary amount of detail.  (Hi Big Brother!)  However, [...]

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