Making The Grade: How Your Title Tag Influences Local Search

We all know how important local search has become.  It seems like only yesterday when your Google search results window wasn’t chock-a-block full of local listings lettered A to E. Well just like back in school, you can think of these letters as grades.  With the top 5 Google Local listings lettered A-E (I should [...]

Google Local changes name to Google Places

Google has decided to re-brand the Google Local Business Center as Google Places. With the re-branding, a few new features have been added: You can now apparently tell Google Local what areas your business services, and can also keep your address private if you operate a home-based business or have an office in an address [...]

Adding Multiple Attorneys to Google Local

During our Google Local webinar last week, and interesting topic came up: law firms with multiple attorneys creating individual Google Local Business Listings for each attorney. After doing some additional research it’s probably not the best idea. From what we’ve found, some law firms may be getting “penalized” by Google local for having multiple profiles [...]