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Local Search Tips for Small Business

October 4, 2010 By Linda Sherman 5 Comments

Google Places is Free and if you are a local business with a street address that customers or clients can visit, you should take advantage of it. You can also register your business with for Bing Local and Yahoo local.

Many of your potential customers and clients will go their favorite search engine, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo and enter search terms for what they want in their local area. Here is a typical search for sushi in Kauai. I just put “sushi” and then “kauai” into the Google search bar.

local search demonstration Kauai Hawaii sushi

This interview by Linda Sherman with Ian Lurie, President of Portent Interactive includes the following tips:

– Local search is your best entree to search and the internet because it is not driven by who has the most money or content.
– Take ownership of your business listing on Google Places, Bing Local and Yahoo Local.
– Make sure you have your company’s full address is on every page of your website – as text, not as a graphic

Do you have a local search story?

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Filed Under: How To, Small Biz, Video Tagged With: local, search

About Linda Sherman

Boomer Tech Talk Managing Editor, Linda Sherman is passionate about senior health care and healthy longevity. Start-ups and board service in this field are of interest. Linda has a distinguished background of international subsidiary CEO/CMO experience. These include CEO Club Med Japan, Barilla Japan and CMO Wal-Mart Japan. After setting up Coors Japan, Linda devised and implemented an innovative guerrilla-marketing plan for ZIMA in Japan that produced a lasting, profitable success. Linda Sherman has been featured and quoted in Forbes, The New York Times, Christian Monitor and other leading publications. Connect with Linda on Twitter and Instagram @LindaSherman.

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