Local Review Submission
Did you know reviews raise your Local Search Ranking?
Having Local Reviews will not only raise your local search results, but a lack of reviews will break your local search rankings and kill your local marketing!
With that being said, you need to make sure you have your foundation laid. Have you optimized your Google Places Page? Do you have an account at Yelp.com, YellowBot.com, YellowPages.com, SuperPages.com, Insiderpages.com and Local.com?
Google Places is obviously the most important listing you can have and need, but having reviews posted to your Google Places Page is just as important as having the Google Places Page there in the first place. How do you get your client to post reviews for you on Google? This can be difficult but MacWin Local Mobile Marketing can help! MacWin Local Mobile Marketing offers a service that will post your handwritten reviews for you on a monthly basis. Having clients fill out review cards is much easier than trying to explain to them exactly how to post a review for your local business on Google. You hand out the cards, get the written reviews and MacWin Local Mobile Marketing will get them posted for you with our “Local Review Submission” service.
Think you can do it yourself? Think again. Google is smarter then we are and knows when 1 person or 1 computer is posting multiple reviews on Google Places of a single business and will not only ignore those reviews but penalize your Google Places listing in the process!
MacWin Local Mobile Marketing will also submit your reviews to other local directories such as YellowBot.com, YellowPages.com, SuperPages.com, Insiderpages.com and Local.com. Google regularly indexes those sites and will pull the local reviews found there and post them to your Google Places Page as well.
“None of My Competition has Reviews. Why Should I Bother?”
It is exactly that attitude that will get keep you in the exact same place that you are at while your competitors start to surpass you in the Google 7-pack. For those of you unfamiliar with the term “Google 7-pack”, that is the prime real estate for local search, it means the first 7 listings that will show up when doing a search on Google. The first 7 listings show up on the first page so you may also hear people say “I want to show up on the first page of Google”, that’s the Google 7-pack!
Once you have your account setup and optimized on Google Places, Google will list your business as a part of local search if they deem the keyword important to the area. So let’s say you are looking for a Realtor in Avondale AZ. You go to Google and do a search for “realtor avondale”, take a look at the listings that show up, you’ll see that one of MacWin Local Mobile Marketing’s clients, The West Valley Home Team shows up #2! Now you’ll also see they have 3 reviews posted which makes the listing appear higher in the search results and also makes the listing stand out among it’s competitors. The West Valley Home Team is actually listed even higher than the entire Brokerage they work for which is Welcome Home Realty!
