During the course of the last few months, after Google put more weight in the Google Places listings, geo-targeted or local SEO has emerged as one of the important search engine optimization tasks. Small business that caters to a focused geo-targeted market have been busy in getting their websites optimized, to be in what people call “the seven pack”. But how can somebody get a website listed in the 1st seven results pulled out from Google Places?
There are things you can do to optimize your site for local search. And most of all, there are handy tools to make local search optimization easier. First, let’s get down with some steps on how to get “prospects” for local citations and listings using one of the most common tools, Google. Avery useful feature to use would be the “discussion” tab. As you can see in the image below, you can get opportunities for links, citations and listings by doing a local search and switching to the discussion tab.
