5 Ways Your Business Can Dominate Google Maps
How Can Your Business Dominate Google Maps?
Google Maps leads new customers to your local business every single day – whether you know it or not.
But in order for local businesses to dominate Google Maps, there are certain things you must do to make sure Google can find your business when people around you go a searchin’.
Listing your business on Google Maps is the start, but it doesn’t end there.
In order to dominate Google Maps, you need to claim more than your Google My Business listing.
Local SEO starts with an owned, verified & optimized Google My Business listing, it’s a great – free – way to get your business in front of new customers.
Most searches these days take place on a mobile device, this is one primary reason why Google is going to a mobile-first index by July 2018.
Google found that 4 out of 5 people surveyed used search engines to conduct local searches. used smartphones and 84% used a computer or tablet.
Mobile-first means Google will be ranking the mobile version of your website, before the desktop version.
Takeaway: you shoulda been mobile-friendly as of April 21st, 2015. (more…)
