Comments on: 5 Ways to Improve Your Local Listing

By: Alexander Zagoumenov

Alexander Zagoumenov — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:35:45 +0000

Absolutely agree on #3, but I’m having troubles explaining the value of it to one of my clients. To all my reasons he says that he needs to build a positive brand for his local business and can’t afford any negative comments. Should I give up? How do you reason?

By: Chris Marentis

Chris Marentis — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:59:30 +0000

In reply to Mark Upshaw.

@Mark: Good point. Engagement and a good call to action will work well.

By: Brian Farrell

Brian Farrell — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:53:12 +0000

Chris — #3 can’t be stated strongly enough. It sure does look strange when every review is 5 stars.

By: Mark Upshaw

Mark Upshaw — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:54:18 +0000

There is one more thing that I think should have been mentioned: making use of the offers section of Google Places to give local searchers a reason to interact with the business online and create some type of emotional response to the search result.