That is not the case with the LBC! Take a look at this graphic –
This is a screen shot from the analytics account of one of my customers, a custom furniture maker here in Albuquerque. He is a small one man shop. His site traffic has always been small as he never wanted to go to the trouble and expense to get ranked high in the organic rankings. His site severed more as a photo album for his traffic and that was just fine with him. What the graphic shows is that he was running along at about 40 – 50 visits a week to his site until the end of January. That’s when I put a simple listing into the LBC for his business. The very next week, his traffic doubled! Not only is he getting more calls, but his walk in traffic has increased as well.
The thing that amazed me the most was the speed with which this change occurred. Normally, any type of SEO is very slow. With the LBC, your changes are recognized within minutes. There is simply nothing that compares with this in terms of making your phone ring!
If your business is not in the LBC your missing the boat. If it is, make sure it is well optimized. There’s lots that can be done in the LBC to increase the number of views that it gets.
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Firefox and Local Search
I’m not sure what all the implications are just yet, but when I fired up Firefox a couple of days ago it asked me if I wanted to make my location available to location aware web sites. I will have more on this in the future, but it is obviously further evidence that many things are changing for the better when it comes to small and medium sized business trying to attract customers from their local markets.
This is great news for business owners who are struggling with budgets, trying to keep the doors open. If you aren’t marketing with Google maps and local search you better get busy! There is a lot of inertia involved in getting your website to show for your most relevant search terms, but once you get it ranking the traffic is free, can’t beat free advertising!
Welcome to SEO for Albuquerque Business
My partners and I have been doing web design and SEO (search engine optimization) for a few years now. Recently a huge new player has emerged on the scene that changes everything you have done in the past to get customers to your local Albuquerque business. I’m talking about Google local search and Google maps. SLW Consulting can help you understand why it is essential that you get your business listed on Google maps, and get it ranking high. Not only can we do it for you, but we are also going to teach you how to do it yourself for free! So if you’re a do-it-yourself kind of person, we can help! If not, we understand. It is a lot of work, especially for someone who has a business to run. So bookmark this site and come back often. Feel free to drop us a line when you get stuck and we’ll do our best to help you out!
On of the hottest things going on right now for business owners who want to get exposure and traffic in a local market is Google maps and the Local Business Center (LBC). I’ve been involved in SEO (search engine optimization) and marketing on the internet for a few years now. Conventional SEO, while it is effective at getting lots of traffic, is very time consuming and slow.
That is not the case with the LBC! Take a look at this graphic –