Localise your business with Google Maps

One of the best ways to help your business and be found by potential customers in your locality is to sign up for Google Maps for local search. You need to make sure that your customers are finding you easily.

1. Sign in to the Google Local Business Centre. or sign up if you don't yet have an account and - just follow the simple steps.

Thanks to Stuart Marler for sending over a link to this article this morning.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Steele on October 31, 2008 at 10:41am: Its an excellent way of getting your business in the top match on Google - just be sure you take some time deciding EXACTLY what search terms your customers are likely to use to find you. We put ourselves down as "garden centre" but then found of course that if you search for "garden centres" we're not on the list!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Philip Voice on July 4, 2009 at 1:14pm: You might be interested in this example of using maps. Bear in mind that it should be used in conjunction with your other optimisation methods.

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