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A major change occurred in late 2010 in the way Google handles local searches. For several years it had realized that one in five of the searches people did on their search engine were locally oriented. While people wanted specific information about thousands of different topics, a strong minority were looking for local information, often as finding their local butcher, baker and candlestick suppliers.

This is an important shift and if you are a local business you should learn how to get on Google maps as soon as possible.

Google has long been experimenting with its mapping capabilities and GPS combined with its superior access to the universe of data online. Today, Google is able to identify the physical location of your computer when you perform a search. It also knows the physical locations of all the corporations in its data base. Because of this, it can plot their relative propinquity to you when you (or a prospective customer) do a search.

Google has made its way into the behemoth it is by stressing one particular goal: providing the searcher with the most relevant information possible in response to their search. Google Local Places is one another major step they have taken to overrule the search market, by giving its searchers the relevant information they look for.

This has been an evolving capability. Until recently, if someone searched for a "chiropractor" on Google, or any of the other search engines, they would get millions of possible results. The first page of results might display a national chiropractor institute, or perhaps individual institutions in New York or Los Angeles. Rarely would the searcher find a result from their local area. This caused the person searching to modify their search to something like, "chiropractor, Minneapolis." When they did that, the results were much better. Websites would be listed which included both terms, and thus more relevant to the Minneapolitan who was looking for a chiropractor.

An entire industry had opened for Search Engine Optimization or "SEO" to facilitate businesses win the fight to be displayed on that first page of Google results. I and other SEO experts advised businesses to get their web sites to show up for local terms using, 'long tail geographical keywords.' That's why I named my consulting business, Minneapolis Internet Marketing Consultant and selected a url for my web site of MinneapolisInternetMarkeingConsultant.com.

But at present this strategy isn't needed if you learn how to get on Google Maps. You can of course hire me, or any of thousands of SEO experts out there, but the truth of the matter is that it's not that hard if you expend a few bucks to grab a guide on the web or on Amazon. I've written one called, "How To Get On Google Maps" that you can download from Amazon's Kindle store.

For most main street businesses, mastering Google local places and learning how to get on Google maps is enough to get you the lion's share of the available visibility and buyers in your marketplace.

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