So you have claimed your map listing on Google, Yahoo & Bing. Now What?

Now that you have claimed your Local Business Listing on Google, Yahoo & Bing you need to take additional steps to improve your placement on the maps in your area.

- Get Positive Reviews - By getting as many legitimate 5 Star Reviews as possible you will improve your placement. The easiest way to do this is to ask for them. Copy the link to your local map based listings and email them to your best customers along with a request for a 5 star review.
- Update the "TITLE" on your website - The page title or "title tag" is perhaps the most important element of SEO and a major component of your Map Based Listing. These are the words that appear at the top of your web browse
r when you are on a page. They are also the words that show up in the blue links in Google. Put the search terms you are targeting in your page titles. Also - Put the most important keywords at the beginning of the title. For Example, rather than putting "Tiger & Sons Roofing" put "Miami Roofing Company - Tiger & Sons".
- ADD more content to your Local Business Listings - Log back into the Local Business Listing Center and fill in any of the "extra content" that you might have left out - Pictures, Video, Coupons, etc.
- Add a video to the page.
- Create a Coupon using the Google Coupon Creator.
- Purchase a Google Tag to really make your listing POP on the Google Map

If you follow these steps you will be well on your way to Page One Placement in your local area for the services that you provide.