From these 3rd party sources, Google
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:23 am
And here's the most important thing you can do to improve your business listing. Submit your website info to as many local directories as possible (ie, yelp.com, kudzu.com, yellowpages.com, etc) The more sophisticated Google's local algorithm becomes the more value they place on content generated by the community and the less they value what the business owner tells them. The reason is simple: relying on business owners' info allows spam to creep into the results and its hard to spam across mutiple 3rd party sources of information.
can derive reviews, images, videos, user content, usa email database webpages and more to help complete your local listing in their system. As in organic SEO, more is not always better. Some sites like bbb.org are valued higher by Google and being listed in their directories will go a long way to improve your rank. For uncompetitive markets, you may be able to get away with keywords in titles, descriptions, and a few made up reviews but that will simply not be enough when competiting against sites that can have a great presnce across the web in places like yelp.
Of course, this makes optimizing your listing a time consuming process and one that is generally out of your control. Google takes a long time to associate external content to your listing (I've been waiting for months) and has been known to associate incorrect information to your business listing occasionally. Also I had 3 'web sites' recently disassociated with my business listing, though they were all valid and they have yet to return. Always remember that Google's listing algorithm is rapidly changing and what works one day may be worthless the next.
can derive reviews, images, videos, user content, usa email database webpages and more to help complete your local listing in their system. As in organic SEO, more is not always better. Some sites like bbb.org are valued higher by Google and being listed in their directories will go a long way to improve your rank. For uncompetitive markets, you may be able to get away with keywords in titles, descriptions, and a few made up reviews but that will simply not be enough when competiting against sites that can have a great presnce across the web in places like yelp.
Of course, this makes optimizing your listing a time consuming process and one that is generally out of your control. Google takes a long time to associate external content to your listing (I've been waiting for months) and has been known to associate incorrect information to your business listing occasionally. Also I had 3 'web sites' recently disassociated with my business listing, though they were all valid and they have yet to return. Always remember that Google's listing algorithm is rapidly changing and what works one day may be worthless the next.