Top 5 Strategies to Rank Your Google+ Local Listing on First Page

Google+ local is one of the best way to promote your local business online. Although there is a big competition on Google+ local for any business but if you want to rank your business high on Google+ local, you need to be a bit different than others.

Its not like others are not optimizing their business but if you work a little smart than your competitors, there are better chances your business will rank high on first page of Google.

So how to be smarter than your competitor? Here I am going to reveal top 5 strategies that you can use to rank your business listing & secured your top spot permanently. I have used these techniques with many of my clients & most of them enjoying a boost in their business.

Top 5 Strategies to Rank Your Google+ Local Listing

Just follow my top 5 strategies which if you follow will bring your listing on the top of Google places.

Make Sure You Google+ Local Page is 100% complete

This is one of the important criteria. While submitting your details in Google+ local listing, you need to make sure that you fill all the fields with correct information. You can check the progress on the right side of the page & make it 100% complete. Google+ Local is the best way to promote your business in the market.

Here are some of the mistakes people make while filling up the details.

1. Don’t use the same phone number & address as in their website.
2. Use free email instead of their business email which includes their website domain.
3. Use their primary keyword in the company field.
4. You can add up to 5 categories so utilize all of them. Many people don’t utilize all of 5 to insert their business keywords.
5. Use either 1 image or video or not at all. You can upload up to 5 videos & 10 images. So use as many as you can.

So avoiding these mistakes will make sure you have a fair chance to rank on the top. You can also create some offers and provide discount coupons to your online customers.

Use KML file

A KML file (Keyhole Markup language) file is a file that gives Google the exact location of a place such as your business. You can create KML files to pinpoint locations, add image overlays, and expose rich data in new ways.

This is one of the best way to optimize your listing. Not many people use KML file so you have the advantage over your competitors to be on the top by creating a KML file.

Get reviews from your customers

What may be better than this if your customer gives some outstanding reviews about your business. Not only it helps Google to decide how good your product & service is, it also help people to decide what you are providing.

So ask your real customers by email or through phone to take some time & give reviews on your Google+ local page. If they really love your service, they will definitely take some time to give you reviews.

Don’t try to get fake reviews for your listing as Google can detect this & suspend your account. Many people do that by buying fake reviews from Fiverr or other places & get on the top but that is not always the case.

Instead try to improve your products so that you will get the genuine reviews from the satisfied customers.

Citation

It plays a very important role in optimizing your Google+ local listing. Its one of the powerful signal that Google sees to bring your listing on the top.

Citations are very simple - They are just “mentions” of your business Name, Address, Phone Number and possibly website on local websites – directories, review sites, etc.

To make it more powerful, create citations in advance even before you create Google+ local listings because when Google sees they are already indexed, they push your listing on the top.

Apart from getting citations from other local sites & review sites, its more powerful to get citation from Google Places & Maps.

There are few Fiverr sellers who provide these services. After trying their Gigs, I have found a confirmed boost a ranking.

While creating a citation, make sure company name, phone no. & address is same on all places.

Backlinks

Now get involved in some SEO. Yes, it plays an equal role as other factors in deciding your rank on Google. Try to get quality backlinks for your business website.

Getting the links from the same keywords as you are targeting for your Google+ local page will help you to optimize your page fast.

Try to create different types of backlinks like guest posting, Edu backlinks, comments on authority blogs etc.

So if you think, getting on the top of Google will generate you good business than you can follow these 5 strategies. This will help you to achieve the top position even if their is high competition.