Help Your Clients Reach the Top of the Search Engines with Google Local Search
Posted by Craig · 5 Comments
I took at little blogging hiatus over the past week to bang off a few key projects – phew – close to finished. Anyways I am back!
A few days ago, in our VAClassroom Members Forum, one of our members posted this question:
My new client has a question that I know one of you can answer. He is an independent insurance agent in Dallas. When you google “Dallas Insurance” the top listing is a map of Dallas and above it it says “Local Business Results for Insurance Near Dallas, TX” along with ten insurance agents and their locations on the map. I’ve seen similar maps when googling other things in Houston. How can he be listed in those top ten? Is it simply a search engine ranking thing, or do those ten people pay big bucks to be on that map? I’d like to help him do it.
Great Question!
To be honest, this one initially stumped me – How do those businesses get listed over others for local business search like “Insurance companies in Dallas, Texas”? Well, after some research and a chat with one of my SEO buddies, I found the answer.
For those of you Virtual Assistants who are working with Brick and Mortar clients, this is a great tip to help them increase their Search Engine Exposure as well as online and offline traffic to their business.
I found a great blog post that explained the whole process much better than I could so take a read of the post and wow your clients by getting them top placement in Google for local business searches:
