Loading ...Google recently rolled out a few changes regarding Local Search and Google Maps that will help local businesses tremendously. Although local search engines provide valuable information and businesses need to utilize their ability, most users still turn to the major search engines for their answers.
As a result, Google is helping both searchers and local businesses by displaying a Google map and 10 local listings on its first results page even if the searcher hasn’t specified a geographic location.
Before this change, searchers on Google needed to include a geographic indicator such as a city or state, into their query. (e.g., “flowers in San Francisco, CA.”) Now however, searchers on Google can search for “flowers” and the 10 local listings and Google Map will display directly on the first page of results.
As he explains these changes in video above, Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM.com, emphasizes the impact they have on small businesses. The modifications Google implemented allow businesses to have additional exposure. These changes also reinforce the power of search engine optimization. Matt says, “SEO and traditional SEO… still is and for the foreseeable future, will continue to be really important for businesses.”
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I do believe that google search is the most important place to be found in local search. Sure twitter and the likes are proving to be another effective method, however these sites will only be used by computer literate and computer savvy people.
Google is a search tool used by anyone and everyone and it will only be a matter of time before yellow pages, city search, etc will be non existance.
I’m beginning to feel the same way as Peter. Google’s a household word now.
I know that this will help benefit some of the small shop owners around my location as well as some independent artists and freelancers with gaining more notice of their work.
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this is the best thing since sliced bread . Google is GOD. For once in our lives us small local business can be seen
so much for spending £10 000 a month on SEO lol. This is the best thing that could happen on a search engine
If more people really understood this information, sites like yellowpages.com and yellowbook.com might go out of business.
yellow book needs to take advantage of this info and go towards the online search. more people are using the internet to look for a local company, like inthe replacement window world West Coast Vinyl
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yeah that’s the truth…,but learn SEO strategy is not easy that we thing…
i think less of the peoples number search a place using Gmap with keywords,and it’s only (still) impact to big company only,how about the local and outside country, most of seo player still using searchengines traditional, so it’s need more to be socializing.
I agree that Google is a household name, but more than that, it is a verb.
I “googled” this or that is a common saying.
It is great that the google maps are there in the search engine results. Now local people can see the business nearest to where they live, although the results show the downtown area as a starting point.
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I never knew that so a big thanks to Matt & Web Pro News.
Google seems to be making big changes constantly these days & its very hard to keep up with what they are doing!
Local search is great for business owners who truly get to take advantage of this when potential customers are going to google.
This is really blowing me away. I referred an SEO client to register their business the other day with Google and they ranked number one for their website. The awesome thing about it was that there was a huge map next to his listing.
All of the changes with website optimization in the past couple of months are really exciting.
This is lovely.
SEO is surely the engine that brings traffic to this or that site, but I couldn’t imagine google maps be of special role there too.
This is incredible.
I think that this way Google makes it transparent: first place sites have their Maps and can be found on Local Search, consequently users can trust them.
Great system.
This is nice.
SEO is definately the search engine that adds traffic to sites, but I did not knew that google maps as so important
I think this is something very different & creative.
Matt says, “SEO and traditional SEO… still is and for the foreseeable future, will continue to be really important for businesses.”
SEO is surely the engine that brings traffic to this or that site. Paid directory listings are becoming less and less powerul every day.
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