I've been working on my own listing my business everywhere I can for the last several years. I got a website done, and have been linking back to it from all these listings.
I recently made a few discoveries, thanks to a friend, on where Google looks for your listing. I was missing a lot of the local listings that are nationally recognized. So I listed my business on them, not thinking anything about it.
We've been getting an increase in calls recently from internet searches. So I decided to search for us in the Wake Forest area, under Handyman and Home Improvements. Imagine my surprise when I found that we are the #1 listing ("A" below) for Handyman in Wake Forest!!! Home run!
I was so excited that I decided to look for "Home Improvements" as well. We came up on the map there as well, at #7. Pretty good! Ironically, Lowe's Foods was also listed at #2. I removed "Home Improvements" from their unclaimed listing, and Google is reviewing it...I got a good laugh out of that at least, a grocery store under "Home Improvements"! :)
So finally the work and effort has paid off. I haven't taken any classes, but I'm encouraged to do so according to what I read here on ActiveRain. So we'll see...
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