Local Search Marketing
The latest statistics show that over 70% of North Americans have completely abandoned phone books and yellow pages and are NOW using Google and other search engines to find businesses of all kinds. In fact, with over 400 million searches being done every day, it’s likely that someone is trying to search for the service your business offers right now. The question is: are they finding you or are they finding your competitors in a local search?
Brave Media Internet Marketing has partnered with Google to help local businesses get listed in Google. Our optimization techniques will give you a huge competitive edge to make you stand out in ways never before possible.
In the above example a Google search was done for “Vancouver Law Firms”. Local Search Results are presented when search engines display “geo-targeted” data with a map showcasing the address, phone number and website of the businesses.
As you will see in any local search result, only 7 businesses are presented on the first page and it is therefore imperative that you reach to be placed on the first page as these will have the largest impact on driving people to your business.
Google is heavily investing on these “geo targeted” map listings for business because they understand that people want information that is most relevant to their location. Another factor which makes local search marketing so important is that these results are highlighted even greater when anyone does a search from a mobile phone as Google wants to present to you these local results with greater emphasis.
If you’re not convinced, consider the fact that there are 2 billion homes with an internet connection but there are 5 billion active mobile phones. With all new cell phones having web browsing capability it is clearly apparent that local search marketing will only become more and more important in the following years.
Contact Brave Media to get listed in Google Places for $749 ($499 until March 31, 2012):
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