Comments on: Choose The Right Categories for Your Google LBC Listing

By: Optimizing Google Local Profile | Expand2Web Experts Group

Optimizing Google Local Profile | Expand2Web Experts Group — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:03:33 +0000

[...] is a link to a post on our blog with a video on how and a tool that allows you to search the entire database of Google Maps categories based on [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:02:13 +0000

I experienced a nice bump in traffic after updating all of my listing for several different businesses, but now they have all slumped back down.

Has anyone else seen a recent decrease in the number of impressions for LBC listings?

By: Barbi Williamson

Barbi Williamson — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:35:19 +0000

Don,
What a useful tool this is turning out to be!! As an offline consultant, of course my goal is to get clients in the 7 box. Thanks for the addition to my “Toolkit of Secret Weapons.”
–Barbi

By: Local Business Center Tips Straight From Google | The Expand2Web Blog

Local Business Center Tips Straight From Google | The Expand2Web Blog — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:27:13 +0000

[...] Make sure you use at least one category that Google already recognizes (use Mike Blumenthal’s tool to choose the right categories for your Local Business Profile.) [...]

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:23:54 +0000

I like it – the Magnificent 7 – Thanks Boyd!

By: Boyd Butler

Boyd Butler — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:20:57 +0000

Oh, forget to mention I call this the “Magnificent 7″ and not the Lucky 7.
Saw Yul Brynner on stage in London as a child. And it’s a great theme musically. And it’s good guys (i.e. local businesses/Yul’s team) v bad guys, (bandits/big business) so kinda fits…sorry for rambling…

By: Boyd Butler

Boyd Butler — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:17:32 +0000

Great article and links – thanks. Can’t wait for the UK
version of this (I’m in London) Getlisted is coming to the UK
soon so that’s going to help me too. Yippee.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:11:19 +0000

@Don & @Mike – let me make sure I understand your approach:
1) Use Mikes Google LBC Category Preview tool.
2) In the Google LBC – Use the “Categories” that best matches the type of service/product I put in.

For instance, if I need a category for “Home Improvement” (for a home improvement contractor), I should choose the category “Sunroom Contractor” as I’m not a home improvement store? Is this correct?

Do the keyword phrases that are used most to find the site not work as well as the Pre-Existing Categories that Google already lists?

Or is it that the Pre-Existing Categories will actually alow our 7-box listing to show up for more terms? This woud be an awesome reason to use the pre-existing categories.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer these questions.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:35:57 +0000

Don,

I think it is the combination of:
-increasing the number of categories from 1 to 5
-making sure all five categories selected trigger the 7 pack
-selecting the categories with the highest keyword volume

In addition to the above the % complete score was 100% before updating the catagories.

Rob

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:43:43 +0000

@Bob – Thank you very much for sharing your very informative article. I will put this into practice right away.