Local search is essential to small businesses. List your business in Google Places it's free. Watch a number of training videos and explore the features, including tools like tracking of actions (meaning how many times users showed interest in your business listing), clicks for more information on maps, driving directions or direct clicks, as well as impressions (how many times users saw your business listing as a local search result). As you’ll see, it will be important to get ratings and references, too.

Verify Your Business:

One easy way to find out if your business is listed anyplace online is to search for your brand name. Include the city or locale you are supposed to be listed in.

Select Your Categories:

When registering, make sure to assign your business to the listed categories that best describe it. You can add up to five categories. Once you start typing, Google Places will display related categories.

Get Listed in Local Directories, Ask for Reviews, don’t be afraid to ask customers for reviews.

If you follow these procedures, your website will get the visibility in the search engine result page.

Hi there. This is a very long term and yeah it is called SEO (search engine optimization). You have to make sure that your site has properly designed and Title and contents are should be unique.

Now concentrate on Off page optimization. Quality directory submission, articles, press release, guest posting etc you have to done. You can also visit this: http://www.seoexperts.co.in/blog

Here are a lot of blog about SEO procedure which will helpful for you.

Thank you

Hi,

What you are trying to do is called SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

First, you should definitely read the SEO guide Google has on their website http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/se... This can get you started to learn more about SEO and understand how it works.

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Good Luck! There are so much more you need to learn! =]

Hi,

I suggest you to read the following guide from Google - http://static.googleusercontent.com/exte...

It covers all the basic SEO Tips from Google.

Few months back we also shared 17 SEO Tips from Google - http://blog.seo-first-page.com/2012/07/1...

Hope this helps :)

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Hi Folks

I am near to completing my website for a home based business and was wondering if anybody would be kind enough to tell me how I could make sure my website comes 'near the top of the list' when someone uses a search engine to find out more about the services that I will be offering . Is this type of thing called 'optimization?'

Thanks in advance for your response.

Thanks in advace for your repsonse.