Local Business Listings – This Works

Hi Guys,

Ok, its been a little while since I updated here, but most of my recent updates have been happening over at my personal blog here www.jamiegarside.com , but I thought I would share this here as well!

Some of you may remember at the end of last year I sent a video out to my list showing you how I put together Local Business Listings. This video had mixed reactions, as Google changed their TOS as I sent the video out, literally straight after, so many believed the techniques wouldn’t work!

Well,

This morning I called up one of my clients for our regular monthly call regarding my SEO efforts for his company and I was excited to show him Google Maps!

Why?

Because, his website and listing was sat in POSITION A on Google Maps and had only been their about a week, so he hadn’t seen it yet. Not only was it POSTION A (Number 1) for one keyword but it was actually NUMBER 1 (POSTION A) for every keyword to do with his business. The definition of TOTAL DOMINATION to say the least!

Anyway, although I was excited to show him the results and that we were not only dominating Page 1 organically for his website but we were also now dominating Google Maps, which he hadn’t done before, I was also excited to let you guys know about this.

Why?

Because I am sat number 1, not just for his listing, but for many more, using the SAME techniques I covered in the video I sent out at the end of last year, proving these techniques do indeed work!

HOWEVER!

There is a BIG BUT, and something I have found out, which I see does play a big part in the local business listings with my experience. Putting up a listing is not the be all and end all, BACKLINKS play a major part.

You see the website I used in the video example doesn’t have many backlinks, it has a few but not too many and to this date doesn’t appear in the map listings. But using the same techniques on my clients websites that have bucketloads of BACKLINKS pointing to them has shot them into the top A-G, as it is now.

This proves that the techniques I use work, but that BACKLINKS do indeed play a MAJOR PART in all of this.

I am not talking magic backlinks or a certain type of backlink either. I am talking the usual, Articles, Profile Links, Social Bookmarks, Press Releases etc. but the sites I have built listings for that have a welath of backlinks, dominate the tops of Google Local Listings everytime, which is AWESOME.

So, I want to link up the video again for you guys, so you can watch it again to see how I build my listings!

THE LOCAL LISTING BUILDING VIDEO

Again, this was shot in November last year, but these same techniques have worked for my clients sites, with proof as recent as this week. After constructing your listing, all you need is backlinks to your clients site and watch what happens!

**ANOTHER ADDED TIP**

As another added tip here when it comes to selling this service or offering this service to your clients is to NEVER GUARANTEE a top page listing in Local Google Listings!

Why?

Because even though the likelihood is that you will achieve it, YOU MAY NOT, nothing is guaranteed. I let my clients know that I have a technique that works 9 out of 10 times but isn’t Guaranteed. This way you are not promising something that is out of your control for some part. Also, when it happens to come to fruition, you are seen as OVERDELIVERING which is awesome for TRUST BUILDING!

Just an added tip there for you guys to remember!

Anyway, watch the video again, and put these techniques to work on a site or a clients site of your and wait for the results.

As far as a time scale goes, some of my lisitings were achieved within 7 days, while other have take 2 months, but they still hit the top which is the GOAL!

Enjoy!

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