Our Local Search experts here at seOverflow strongly believe that any confusion about your core business data that the Search Engines have has the potential to harm your ranking in Google Places (formerly Google Maps). Since you must rank well in Places to gain a coveted spot in the Local 7 Pack, it directly impacts whether your listing can appear there, as well.
You may need to take many small steps to do a thorough job of standardizing your data across the web. However, whether there is confusion about your data or not, there are two easy action items that we recommend all local businesses accomplish to help them in Local Search:
- Submit your business information to Localeze
- Submit your business information to Universal Business Listing
Alone, each of these trusted primary data providers helps you to standardize your business data across the web by feeding it out to locally focused websites and Search Engines, including Google Places (aka Google Maps). Take a look at the Local Search Ecosystem to see how this works.
While it’s easy to submit a single business location to Universal Business Listing, if you have multiple businesses or locations, seOverflow can simplify the process for you thorough their partnership with UBL. With Localeze, the best and most thorough distribution of trusted data is accomplished by submitting through a Channel Partner.
seOverflow is now a Localeze Channel Partner, too, so, if you need assistance with standardizing or distributing the information about your business across the web – or need any other help with Local Search – gives us a call at 303-905-1504. We know Local Search!
