The New Yellow Pages – Google Places
When’s the last time you used the yellow pages? They keep getting delivered, and somehow sales people keep selling ads in them, but their usage has dropped off to almost none. Search engines have replaced them nearly to extinction. The question then becomes, how do you show up when people type in “your service Bend Oregon” into google. If you do show up, how do you improve your listing, or make needed changes if they are required? Maybe you’d like to add photos. Maybe your location on the map is incorrect (this is common).
You should add your business to Google Places, which used to be called Google business listings. There are also a number of ways to help your business start to rank higher than others in this space. Some are related to whether your site is registered with google, or properly sitemapped, or the weight of your inbound links, or the metatags associated with your pages, or a variety of other factors.
Either way, find out how you do on a number of terms, decide if you are happy with it, and either do something about it or work with someone who can do it for you. That is.. if you’d like customers to be able to find you properly. Want some help? I’d be happy to.
