Posts Tagged ‘local search engine optimization’
Why Local Search is Important to Your Business
Local search is currently been taken very seriously by the major search engines.
Google, Yahoo & Windows Live each have special Local search listing platforms for businesses that target specific locales. Here is an overview of each of them.
Google Local
Google released its Local Business Center back in 2007 and has been adding new features to it like, the ability to upload photos, pop-up info windows via its maps interface, reporting capabilities and its integration with Google AdWords via Local Business Ads. It’s the most sophisticated and easiest to manage of all three local listing platforms. Unlike the other two platforms, its listings are better centrally managed and cover a lot more countries. It is also likely to generate the most traffic to your website due to Google’s new feature of including local search results in searches without specifying a location . Read More »
