If you are the owner of the Google Local Listing, claim it. Claiming your listings is an opportunity to be found by more people in more places. People are searching for local businesses. Google has integrated their local search into the main organic search results becoming the first thing searchers view. Otherwise, anyone including your competitor can claim your Google Local Listing and hijack the account. The hijacker finds the listing...

Whenever you search Google for some type of business near a certain area, not only does it query its usual web results and AdWords database, it also queries its Google Local database. Google’s Local Business Center Listings are the information that appears when someone search Google, Google Maps, Mobile, or Google 411. And that information, which can fill the same purpose of an ad, is absolutely free. You may be wondering why Google...