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Site Critique

If your current site is not producing
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a professional website makeover.

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Marketing your Business with Google Local

Here's a free tool that you may not know about yet... Google Local

Help people find you on Google Maps. Visit Google Local Business Center and sign up for a free business listing. Include your address, photos, hours, coupons, and videos to your listing, free. Add your business to Google Maps.

When people search for a business or service in Google, businesses that have a Google Local listing, show up first, with quite a bit of extra info including a map to the business location, description, and more. See example below.

When the "Hours and More" link is clicked, visitors will see more detail, see example below.

If you don't have a Google Local listing, you're missing out on this valuable free resource. It's very easy to get started. Here's how:

Sign up for a free Google Local account (if you already have a Google account, you can use that login.) Google Local Sign up page

You'll be able to enter lots of information about your business including description, business hours, photos, video, and more. See below.

Once you've filled in all your information, you will have access to statistics about your listing.

If you would like assistance in setting up your Google Local account, please email support.

 

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