My SEO Journal: How I Have Achieved & Maintained Top Rankings - Part #8

• Google’s ‘Local Business Results’ Map Listings Are Great Free Advertising •
• You Can Be Listed In A City Near Your Place Of Business, Too •

This is a quick addition to the post I made the other day about my top rankings for Franklin, Tennessee in Google’s local search map results.

The city my business is located in, and how it is listed with Google is Franklin — just outside of Nashville. To show you the extended benefit of getting your business listed in Google’s free ‘Local Business Results’ map, here’s a screen shot taken today (June 18, 2008) and look! I am #1 in the local map listing for “search engine optimization consultant Nashville Tennessee”.

Note that there are three organic search results, then there is the Google local results map, and then organic rankings continue down below it. Isn’t it interesting that based on Google’s algorithms, the local search result map was placed in what amounts to position #4.

On top of that, I am in the top result on the map. And note that the other firm that is listed is actually a Nashville based firm. Remember … I am technically a Franklin-based SEO business!

Hmmm … I’ve no complaints about that! Guess I do a pretty darn good job when it comes to search engine optimization.

So, here the bottom line is:  don’t ignore the FREE advertising space Google’s ‘Local Business Results’ Map listing provides. Not only may it be of great benefit to you when people are searching for you in the town where your business is actually located, but you just may find yourself in the search results for neighboring towns, too.