Inside Track: Proven Strategies for Discovering Customer Contacts

These are the same customers who leave negative reviews and can ruin your local seo efforts. For this reason. We remend that interviews take a proactive approach to answering questions. There are two ways to do this: turn on q&a notifications. That way. Whenever someone asks about your business. Youll be alerte and want a response right away.

Dont worry about getting tons of

annoying reminders. Unless your business is extremely popular. Problems are fairly rare. Note  that these reminders are turne on by default. But its worth checking again in settings. Provide answers to frequently aske questions beforehand. Most websites have a faq page with answers. You can also ask and answer questions yourself on your google business listing.




You just nee to make sure youre logge into your google account for google my business so that all answers will be tagge From business owner.  . Release updates you can use articles to share updates. Promotions. And events relate to your business. You can think of posts as status updates. Theyll appear in a carousel near the bottom of your google business panel.

Google occasionally displays relate articles in map pack results. For example. If we search for Woodburn oregon sympathy flowers. valley pacific floral ranks in Map pack.  at the same time. Google also displaye an article from this merchant that mentione Sympathy flowers in our search results. Its unclear whether the merchant ranke high because of that article.

Or if it would have ranke anyway
Regardless. It helps your business listing stand out on search engine results pages to attract more attention from potential customers. To create a post. You can go to the posts tab and click the button to create your first post. Here are some suggestions for articles: use good quality images.

Make sure to use clear. Well-lit and pose photos. Use headlines to inspire action. Work hard to create attractive promotions. Dont just say on sale when you can say half off the entire weekend.  accurate. Avoid being vague like the plague. Dont just say Happy hour is here when you can say Happy hour All drinks are half off every saturday from 5 to 6 p.

M. timely. Dont wait until valentines day to post about candlelight dinner specials. People had already made plans by then. Dont publish for the sake of publishing. Many guidelines mention articles that Send a positive signal to google and Publish updates as frequently as possible.  we disagree. Dont post unless you have something meaningful to say.