How does Google rank your local business listing?

The official word from Google is this:

All Google search results are based primarily on relevance, and Google Maps listings are no different. Google Maps ranks business listings based on their relevance to the search terms entered, along with geographic distance (where indicated) and other factors. Sometimes our search technology decides that a business that's farther away from your location is more likely to have what you're looking for than a business that's closer.

How does LocoBee get such good rankings on Google Maps then?

We use the same techniques to position map ranking that we do to position our SEO clients. Because we are limited in the amount of content we can provide for a single business listing we also employ the same research that we use for our pay-per-click clients. Achieving a high ranking on Google maps takes the same kind of expertise that we have been developing since 1999 as a local search marketing company. We start with basic keyword research and keyword list refinement. We develop call to action business titles similar to the ones we develop for AdWords campaigns. We research or keyword list to discover which terms trigger local business results. We then use those terms to develop an optimized business listing for our clients. We rarely miss primarily because we continually check rankings to ensure we take your business as high as it can get.

As an added benefit we check rankings around and notify Google when inappropriate listings make the rankings for your keywords such as business that are no longer in business.

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See http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7091&topic;=13435 for more information.

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