Increase Local Business With Google Maps
Theres many great resources available to you online and some of them are great to help increase local exposure, and generate more local business. We all know google is one of the major players in the search engines and getting your website listed dominantly is a key factor in any business plan.
Google has the power to make your business successful and if you make your website dominant in google then the results will speak for themselves. Google have created some really great feature to help your website get displayed to people who live local to your business.
If you follow this link to googles business centre you can have your website added to the local maps section for your area. Its free to have your website listed and you can edit your listing at anytime, you are allowed to upload information about your products, pictures of your storefront, contact details and even open hours. Users can leave comments and reviews about your business as well which is a good idea as comments can sway peoples opinions. Theres also many other tools available from google that allow you to find out more information about your site from googles point of view.
You can upload your websites sitemap and have google crawl it, if there are any errors with the sitemap then google will let you know so you can repair them. If you haven’t got a sitemap yet then I strongly suggest you doing so, google links to see sitemaps and looks out for them when crawling your site.