Searchers want to see in your ad exactly what they entered in the search field.  Your customers have busy lives and simply don’t have the time to be looking around. Business and internet marketing agency spend alot of time creating compelling offers that are used to pull in a customer. Searchers don’t want to be sold. They want to find what they are looking for. Now they will read reviews and information about your products or services but you don’t want them doing this on your ads. You don’t want to be paying for customers to do research. You want you ad in front on them after they have done their research and they are looking to take action. Now this ad might not look pretty to the average searcher but it is exactly what they were looking for. This is what gets them to contact you.

Google is now offering the ability to find that anonymous person who is posting up negative reviews about your business. Accountability is coming and this is step in the right direction.

5 things you should now before responding:

1. You need access your Local business center
2. Click on respond to the review below the review
3. The goal is to make amends with the reviewer
4. Often times it is a marketing company that works for your competition. They will remove the negative review and go ahead and enter it somewhere else.
5. If you are not able to work out an arrangement your other option is to document your conversation and provide this in the flag as inappropriate email.

Call us to discuss a plan to remove negative reviews:
Be Found By Your Customers
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Woodridge, IL 60517
312.485.5102

5 things you should know about

your business information

1. How your business name, phone number and address appear online effects your rankings.
2. Other companies sometimes your competitors are advertising under your business name.
3. Search engines are constantly crawling the internet looking for references to your business.
4. If there is any confusion your site will not rank as well as your competition.
5. It takes time to clean all this up and I can help you out.

Reason why you should pay attention to your listings
Consistency across the web amongst your business name, address and phone number is only growing more and more in importance. Search engines are looking to clean up their business information. Relevancy is only growing more in more in importance as search goes mobile. By that I mean your results will be provided according to your position by GPS not just where your IP address is.

Data providers
InfoUSA, Localeze, and Universal Business listings are a good starting point to begin managing your listings. These are large data providers that feed the local listing providers. Such as Yelp, Citysearch, Judy’s Book, Kudzu, Merchant Circle, etc….

Express Update USA
InfoUSA is offering a new interface to more easily manage your listings Express Update USA Previously InfoUSA had a lengthly submission process that was really time consuming. The new interface let’s you search for your listing and shows all relevant results. Then you can easily update your information and you are provided with a dashboard that will show the status of your submission. Previously you just submitted your information and had to wait and see if it occurred.

Enjoy the new interface and clean up those listings. It will help your online exposure. Keep your business name, phone number, and address consistent across the web.