It’s sometimes hard to believe, and even harder to keep up with, all the changes you face as a small business. Just 18 months ago, the Google organic listings was not the most important marketing a small to medium size local business must deal with. But now it truly is. Depending on your industry, 30 – 60% of your prospects are looking at Google & the Google Maps when they are making a buying decision.
But the current Google Map format was just introduced in January of 2008
The new 10-pack seems to me a more equitable presentation of local data. It appears though that strongly optimized sites and local listings can still achieve authoritative status. It is not clear to me that the end user when searching on ‘Denver Flowers” really wants a single response and it seems to do a disservice to both the other businesses and the public.
- Mike Blumenthal, Author of Understanding Google Maps & Local Search
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