Hi all, I'm trying to help a brick and morter business friend rank well in a google local search. Does anyone here understand how Google local determines what order to list businesses? My friend is a physical therapist but when someone searches for physical therapy in that city, his listing is #16 on the list. Any help here would be appreciated.
I am on this mission too, Have you registered with Webmaster tools and set a geographic location as well as listing in the directory? I find the largest problem is that it often ranks them by distance from city center instead of algo ranked.
Along with above you must have reviews, verified listing on Google. Review are more important than local directories. You address should be clear and crawlable, like name, phone, business name, address, phone no
By getting more backlinks from its regional domains, listings in local directories and local business listings we can improve position in Google local. But still I am too troubling with latest Google local updates .
The first place to start is Google places. That is essential. From there get some other local sites to link to you. A local place name in anchor text will aslo help.
If you want to improve your local listing so review your listing and try to focus more local listing sites like : yelp, yp, Big Book, Windows Live Local , yahoo local etc.
having a domain extension that suits for your country will be of great help. say if your from india, a domain extension of .in will be good.
The key to ranking high in and recieving traffic from the search engines is to optimize your site for specific keyword phrases that are not too competetive but still recieve enough traffic to make it worth your time to try to rank high for.
I have heard that if you manage to get your business listing in local directories to with your address that you want to put in google local business center. One more thing create KML file and submit it to good local directories...
hi i m also working onlocal search engines for rank my sites i think you have to use local directories, follow your competitors backlinks and make a plan to beat them ...
first of all give your site main keywords in your google places Title, Desctiption and in title. Include some secondary keywords also in Description. Give your company proper phone no. street address, Area code , pin code city, town and country full details. Try to submit some classifed submissions and press release submissions with your full address details in the postings. Take links on local directories of country domain specfic sites this is very helpful for the site.