Do it Yourself Guide to Google Places and Bing Local Listing Center
If you landed here from the SERPs and if you are a local business, the importance of getting your listing on Google Places and Bing Local Listing Center “just right” is only going to become more crucial. Remember that your competition is also doing their best to beat you at this game. If you have not read the full abstract about what is Google Places and why you need to do the local Google thing, here is the full Introduction to Localization on Google and Bing.
You may have already visited Google Places and Bing Local Listings and done some of the work. However, this part of SEO is so crucial to success that I urge you to have a professional audit. Several things can go wrong:
- Google and Bing change their sites often and the requirements change frequently. Are you up-to-date?
- You can inadvertently spam these sites, generating penalties against your website, hurting your search rank, without being aware you have done anything wrong.
- And of course there are some tricks that work to improve your search rank.
I strongly recommend that you do not do-it-yourself due to the potential for negative impact to your search rank. Done well, it can lead to doubling of traffic, done poorly it can get your website removed from Maps and or lose many places in natural search rank. Its worth the money to have it done right. Contact me if you’d like a FREE audit of you Google Places, Google Maps rank and Bing Local Listing Center.
DIY-SEO Localization – Google Places – Google Local – Bing Local Listing Center
Undaunted you want to DIY: here are the resources you’ll need:
And here is how to localize your listings : Guide to Google Places
Otherwise contact me directly if you’d like a FREE audit of your Online Presense
