Local businesses often need help improving their local rankings with the search engines. Local business owners are often not familiar with such things as link-building and long-tailed-keywords.
Now there is new tool that can help – and it’s free.
Pat Sexton and David Mihm have joined forces to help small businesses get better listed locally in the search engines with the launch of GetListed.org.
This new tool will check to see how well your site is optimized for local placement in the search engines. It runs a placement test in Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Local as well as the Best of the Web Local Directory.
They concentrated on these as they did not want to swamp people with unknown sites, according to Pat Sexton.
“We have been approached by others but are staying with the ones we have for the moment,” he added.
The system allows you to see any errors in your listings, which is handy, as well as any reviews that exist – be they positive or negative.
The site has been well received since its launch – small business blogs have helped push the information out, Sexton noted.
“We got out to a lot of real small business people already so we are happy.”
While only connected for the U.S. for now, they will soon be launching in Canada, the UK and Australia. Other countries and languages are slated for later integration.
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