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Lets say you want to rank for “Chicago Plumber”. I can easily tell you that there are very large corporations out there with lots of money, doing everything they can to make sure that they rank very well for any city name + “plumber.” Like Yellow pages, online Lead generation companies, national chains with local offices etc. The best way to compete with these companies is usually by letting the search engine know that you are a “local business”. You enter your address and your business name, and you’ll see that Google has a nice reserved spot at the top of the pages for local businesses where the local business that sign up to google and submit their information is shown on a map, with links to their websites and phone numbers.

To sign up in Google, go to here:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Flocal%2Fadd%2FbusinessCenter%3Fgl%3DUS%26hl%3Den-US&service=lbc&hl=en-US&gl=US

Yahoo does not offer this service yet.

MSN: https://llc.local.live.com/BusinessSearch.aspx

Go ahead and register your site. It doesn’t cost you a penny!

Akin Tosyali

Tags: local business advertising, local seo, seo for local

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