Local search has been around for awhile, but surprisingly, many businesses aren’t aware of how important it can be to securing your online presence and adding value to your potential customers who use this service every day. There is literally an entire generation of people who don’t use the yellow pages*. So how do they find you? They go to Google and search for your business with local terms. For instance, if you are looking for a jeweler, type in “jewelry” and your city & state, or zip code. If you type in “web designer 55350,” Vivid Image will come up two out of the three local listings!
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Mar 2009
Filed Under: 30 Days of Social Marketing, Google, Search Engines Tagged With: Google, google local, listing your business in search engines, local listing, local search, local search engines, msn, search engine, why use local search, yahoo, yahoo local
I am President and Chief Evangelist for Vivid Image - a web design and social marketing firm located outside of Minneapolis, MN. 
