Wednesday, December 24, 2008

For Brandy

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

FREE Methods to Improve Your Google Position

How To Get Great Positioning on Google Search

If you are in the photography business, and you're wondering why business has slowed down. Do a simple thing. Go to the Google search bar and put in the word photography followed by the city you are doing business in. So ..... photography Des Moines ..... Where do you show up. Top ten? Just for fun, try it again this way .... photography Des Moines IA .... in other words just ad the appropriate initials for your state. Does that change everything. Now try .... photograhers Des Moines ..... Different again. Finally, try the city next to you. Try another city that you hope to get business from. Shocking, huh. Call me, we can fix it. 310-920-9649

Google Maps are the NEW Yellow Pages

Here is another experiment. While doing all the searches suggested above, see if any of them have the google map local business showing. To see what one looks like go here Is your store or business showing on the map? Is there a map at all? We can get you on the map. We can help you get a map up where none is showing now. 310-920-9649

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Yellow Pages Will Be Replaced By Google Maps Local Business Center

If you are a local business, one who provides goods or services to consumers or businesses in a prescribed geographic area (5 miles - 50 miles), then the strategies and methods for maximizing your web presence have changed dramatically.  Google Maps Local Business Center is one of those major changes.  You may currently be invisible or way down the page compared to competitors in your area or far away who are trying to steal your rightful position.

Twenty years ago you would have paid huge amounts of money and spent hours carefully deciding how to position yourself in one local Yellow Page book.  The Yellow Pages of today is Google, and the future is even more about Google.  The amazing thing is that all the benefits of Yellow Page advertising that you used to pay for are now free.  The cost is your diligence in making sure you are maximizing your advantage.  

I encourage you use Google Maps Local Business Center to increase your traffic starting literally 24 hours after you do what needs to be done.  If you find that you are having difficulty or if you sense that there are methods of using Google Maps Local Business Center that are a bit complicated and might require hours of learning new skills, you might be right.  That's where I come in.  Call me at 310-920-9649.  In 5 minutes I can determine if your business is right for getting major benefits from using Google Maps Local Business Center.