Google Snuck an Elephant In the Room: Local Search
Listen… if you sell your products locally, you must try this.
Go to www.google.com and search for "plumber".
You cannot miss the big map with plumbers in your area.
That map attracts your eye like a magnet.
Google has realized that a lot of searches are made in order to find local businesses and they are trying to make it as easy as possible by showing a map of hits in their search results. It works just as well for carpenters, locksmiths, psychologists, hair dressers, mechanics, real estate brokers, book-keepers, opticians, dentists and many, many more.
It's done in such a ingenous way that someone searching in London will get a different result from someone searching while in Liverpool. It works because Google can figure out where the search is done by matching the searchers IP address.
The spots next to the map are limited – only 10 plumbers in each city can fit, and that makes each spot even more valueable. It's a little like having a first page ad in the local newspaper. Every day.

Google snuck this elephant in and now it's wreaking havoc, trampling down search results left, right and center.
For Internet nerds like us, dealing with search engine optimization every day, it was a challenge to figure out how to get on that list (and tame the elephant) and now we know exactly how it's done. We know every trick there is.
We can make sure your company appears on the map and list.
In fact – we guarantee it.
Give us 2 months, €1000 and a search phrase to work with. If we should fail to get your company visible on the map and in the list beside it – you get your money back. No questions asked.
Just email us and we will get back to you for a 10 minute discussion.
admin@webventuresgroup.com
