How To Get Even Higher Rankings For Your Google Place Search

If your goal is to rank number 1 on Google Local Search you need to first follow the 4 steps I mentioned in my previous article on getting top the top of Google Place Search. But what if you niche is highly competitive? You may need to give your Google Place Search page an extra push in the rankings. One ninja trick is to upload photos to Flickr.com, Picasaweb, and Panoramio and attach geo tags to your photos. Then place links to these photos on your Google Place Search Page. Geo tags are tags you add to your photos which identify them by geographical location

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Review DISQUS Comment System WordPress

Are you a fan of Mashable and the Huffington Post? If so perhaps you have noticed the DISQUS comment system they use on their blogs. These are pretty high profile blogs so maybe you have asked yourself the question “should I use the DISQUS system on my blog?” Here are some details about this system to help you make your decision.

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How To Claim Your Bing Local Business Listing

We have already spoken about claiming your Google Place Search page and optimizing it to the max. This is your first step in promoting your local business. But do not forget about Microsoft’s Bing. Even though Bing does not have the search volume of Google it still gets a huge amount of search traffic and you need to have your business listed there as well

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100 Local Directories Like Yelp

Here are some of the other types of local directories where you can list your local business besides just search engine local directories: • Online yellow pages like Superpages and Yellowpages.com • Social networks like Yelp, Twitter, and Facebook • Portals and guides like AOL and Citysearch • Mobile devices like BlackBerry and iPhone • 411 directory assistance services • GPS navigation services • Telematics services like OnStar http://www.quickregister.net/wordpress/2011/10/19/100-local-directories-besides-google-places-where-you-can-promote-your-local-business/

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100 Local Directories Where You Can Promote Your Local

Google has lead the way in local marketing by creating over 50 million “Google Places Pages.” Here is a post I did giving you the basics on Google Places Basically Google Places is webpage created by Google for local businesses. These Google Places pages often appear at the top of the local searches above even the Google natural listings. Less than 10% of local business owners have actually claimed their Google Places pages and have started adding their own up to date information, links, pictures and offers. And only a small percentage of those business owners have taken time to fully optimize their pages.

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Zimbio Review

Zimbio is about the 300th busiest website in the world according to Alexa.com and boasts over 20 million readers per month! Ok so “that is nice for them but what is in it for me?”

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Yelp Review

So you are probably wondering what is the fastest way to get your local business to the top of Google searches? The fastest way is to claim and fully optimize your Google Places page. I wrote an article on exactly how to do that here. The 2nd fastest to way to get your business to the top of Google local searches, in my completely aribitrary personal opinion, is the fully optimize your business listing on Yelp and start getting backlinks directly to your Yelp page.

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