0:00 Why Google Matters for Local Business
0:27 Testing Search Engines Back in 1999
1:05 Google Delivered Better Results Early On
1:44 Google and YouTube Are Top Search Engines
2:12 How PushLeads Helps Businesses Rank
2:34 Real Traffic Numbers for Local Businesses
3:12 Free SEO Audit at PushLeads
Full transcript
0:00 Why Google Matters for Local Business
hey guys I’m Jeremy Ashburn with push leads and today I’m just answering common SEO questions the clients typically ask me so I’ve been doing SEO the last 15 years and had my own SEO agency the last five years and so one of the questions that comes up either directly when they ask me or indirectly people wonder this when they’re out there just on Google and other search engines and they wonder this question
0:27 Testing Search Engines Back in 1999
why does Google matter so a lot of us know that Google is a really big search engine and has been out there for a while and has a good reputation but I remember actually way back in 1999 going to school at UNC Charlotte and I was studying graphic design and there was a Mac lab of about 30 computers they were all Macs and I remember thinking hey I want to try different search engines and see which ones deliver results and I remember actually thinking I’m gonna try Alta Vista that was one of them yahoo course was around then Ask Jeeves and then there was Google and never
1:05 Google Delivered Better Results Early On
trying different search engines and realizing that Google just delivered better results like the results were better you just were better than than Yahoo or Alta Vista Ask Jeeves that was completely off the mark so I remember thinking you know Google it just really does a good job delivering good results that people are looking for and remember and I remember changing all the search engines from whatever it was to Google because I was thinking you know what this is just a better result this it’s Google delivers a better experience for people out there and really that’s that was true 17 years
1:44 Google and YouTube Are Top Search Engines
ago and it’s also true today Google just delivers a better experience and because of that Google is the number one search engine out there Google and sort of Yahoo they were both using Google in and YouTube are both the number one search engines out there and Google is really big at delivering results that people are looking for right when they’re looking for them and so and so I really love Google because
2:12 How PushLeads Helps Businesses Rank
and I’ve made it my business to help business businesses be visible and grow at the top of Google and that’s what we do at push leads we help local businesses grow by making little inside tweaks on their website and outside tweaks on the website so that over time all of this adds up to your business sharing at the top of Google and the way it kind of works is if you’re at the top
2:34 Real Traffic Numbers for Local Businesses
of Google then people are finding you let’s just say that you’re a plumber and Newark New Jersey and someone searching for plumbers and Newark New Jersey and if they can find you at the top if there are thousand people a month looking for that term then around 400 people will click to your website just from that term every month 400 people now others 400 people maybe 50 will call you maybe 30 but still that’s 30 or 50 new calls that you’re getting every month that’s a local business that you weren’t getting so you can see that being at the top of Google makes a huge difference especially to local businesses so if you
3:12 Free SEO Audit at PushLeads
want to learn more you can go to push Lee’s calm and we’ll do an SEO audit for you what that is is it will take a little snapshot of your website and falen it and find out how strong its performing for a search phrase so you can actually be a plumber in new jersey and literally literally put plumbers in new jersey and put your website in there and we’ll find out how strong your website is so just go to push leader comm right now and check it out if you’d like and either way thanks for your time i’m jeremy ashe firm with push leads thanks
Jeremy Ashburn explains why Google dominates search and how local businesses benefit from ranking at the top.
Read the full written guide: Leveraging Google Business Profile for Local Service Companies: The Asheville Advantage
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