A lot of local businesses are hiding from their potential customers, and they don’t even know it.
It’s a fact that if your local business is not online, and you are still paying for expensive ads in yellow pages and local newspapers, the chances are that you are not being found, and you are not getting Google’s help, as most people nowadays go onto the Internet to find whatever they are looking for, and your local business is not on Google local first page.
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This could be due to the fact that you don’t know much about it, or you don’t know how to go about it, and I’ve even had business owners say to me that they are not interested in having a business website, or a Google local first page business listing.
These businesses must have their heads buried in the sand, or they go about their business with their eyes closed, can’t they see their local competitors are coming up on the first page of Google, in the local Google places business listings? Perhaps they don’t even know how to use a computer.
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If you are an owner of a local business, and you are thinking that you don’t need a website or Google’s help, then you probably won’t be a business owner for much longer, but I know that you don’t think like this, if you did then you wouldn’t be reading this article now.
The fact is that you do need a local business website as most people nowadays expect to see a website, and to see whatever it is that you are offering in your local business, this website will need to be well optimized for the search engines, so that they will know what your website and business is about.
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Another reason that your business website has to be well optimized is that it will work better with your local business listing in Google places, (95% of all websites are not optimized) this will give you a distinct advantage over your competitors, who’s websites are not easily found.
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It is not necessary to have a website for you to have a Google places listing, but without one it will be almost impossible to get it on Google’s local first page, not only that but if someone types something in the search that doesn’t quite match the search result’s available, Google will look at the websites to see if it can find a snippet that matches the search better, and then present this description to the searcher.
This will help your local listing come up for a lot more search requests, and also help you to rank better for both your Google listing and your website, this is the help that Google will give you if this work is done correctly.
Can you imagine the difference this would make to your local business, and to the amount of extra business and profits for your business? I’ll let you think about this for a moment.
As long as you can deliver what you promise your customers on time and in a professional way, you should be able to totally dominate your local area in your trade or profession.
I hope that you can now understand how Google can help your local business to get on Google local first page, leaving your competitors are the starting line.
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Wolfgang Bloomfield
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