Customers today spend increasing amounts of time on their mobile devices. A recent local SEO study of all business searches found that 68% are completed on a mobile device. What more, Google's algorithm rewards mobile-friendly sites with a higher ranking.

What most local businesses don’t know is, just by simply creating a free Google My Business listing, you greatly increase your odds of showing up in a Google local search. Optimize your information, and you can rank even higher.

With hundreds of millions of active social media users, it's essential for businesses to use social media to impact the decisions of their target customers while improving their overall local search ranking at the same time.

When all your listings say the same thing, Google will confidently display your contact information to customers for geo-targeted searches. Local SEO experts believe Google and the other search engines cross-reference your NAP information across a variety of websites as a validation that you're a legitimate business. The more “local citations” you can build up with consistent NAP information, the better.

Customer reviews are one of the most powerful pieces of content you can add to your businesses website. By adding the financial Reputation Group's review feed to your site, new reviews will be dynamically displays and seen by Google as original content.