In this short, Joshua Albanese, founder of Spearleaf, walks through cleaning up the listings behind your local search rankings: merge or close duplicate Google Business Profiles, correct directory listings so they match your profile, and add pages for the neighborhoods you serve.
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Video Transcript
If you wish your website traffic looked more like this instead of this, then this video is for you.
Step one: find Google Business Profiles. Search inside your Google Maps and ensure that your business doesn't have multiple listings. It's really common. Make sure that you claim them and merge them all into one or close them down, so you only have one.
Step two: fix directory listings. If listings show the wrong phone, address or hours, claim them and match everything to your Google profile.
Step three: add neighborhoods that you serve. Create website pages that list the cities or areas you work in so Google connects you to those searches. Ask happy customers to leave Google reviews right after a great job.
Now you have the steps to get more Google traffic and inbound calls. Do competitors show up on Google while your phone stays quiet? Follow for more tips.
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