Category Archives: Local Search

Top Local Search Ranking Factors For 2010

David Mihm has done it again and has published Volume 3 of Local Search Ranking Factors. This year David surveyed 34 local search experts to get their opinion on the top factors for ranking high in Google Maps.
The participants were asked to rate the importance of 69 criteria with respect to their influence on rankings [...]

Why You Always Register Your Own Domain Name

Sometimes I dismiss what is common sense to me not realizing there are plenty of people out there that, admittedly, do not have one tech savvy bone in their body – or so they think.
Today I received a call from a good friend who is bringing her Feng Shui business online. She was frantic. Her site was gone and she had [...]

GEO Targeting For Local Search

There are a number of things you can do to help the search engines properly list your business or website prominently in their local search results.

Use your City and State in the name of the site/blog title
Use your City and State in article or posts titles
List your phone number with area code on a contact [...]