Whether you have a Main Street, brick and mortar business, or a mobile type service, it is very important to ensure that your web site ranks well for your local area.
When you potential customers are searching online for your product, they are no longer searching for just ”widgets”, they are searching for “widgets AND “their city”, more and more trying to narrow down the searches to their neighborhood.

Let’s look at the facts again.

- Yellow Pages are becoming Obsolete, soon in many municipalities, the Yellow Pages will no longer be delivered to every household.
Where are your Yellow Pages advertising dollars going?



- 1 out of 3 Internet Searches are for Local Business and Services
- Over 2.6 Billion Local Searches Every Month, growing at 50% per year
- 81% of New Customers Search the Web First for Local Business - Are they Finding You?



People really want to know who they are dealing with. They want to be able to visit you location for what you have to offer, or at least have the peace of mind that they could.
So, when they do a search online, let’s say for “accountants”, they will search “accountants Vancouver” and they want results, with your web site, address, phone, and a map with directions on how to get there.

Let’s not forget about the Mobile users and searcher out there. With millions of Blackberry users, iPhones and iPads out there, more and more searches are being done from mobile devices. Is your site optimized for a Mobile device? For example, people will search for their local movie theater and show times, then after the move, out comes the mobile device again, as they search for that neighborhood martini bar.