How To Do Local Seo Business?

Yopu can verify it by other ways too, like users verifying it, but yes, google local, reviews and great on site seo will get you top spots

Once completing your google local, look to get citations built to raise higher on the list.

GodOfSEO said:

Google+ Places is how they got listed there, you'll need to verify it via a postcard.

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And you'll also have to do some basic SEO in order to rank a little better.

You should have a look at this free book about local seo shared in download section.
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...on-your-business-website-google-page-1-a.html

Using google local and right keyworkds and backlinks should be able to take care of the traffic and ranking of the site. And yes you would required to use some basic SEO, without which the ranking wont be great.

While I'm just getting started with doing Local SEO. However, it's all about citations. Citations, also called your NAP (name, address and phone number) being listed on a page, can help with your Local SEO. Basically, just like how google counts a backlink as a "vote" for your website, every time it sees your NAP, it counts that as a vote for your local business. Keep in mind, you want to make sure your NAP is *exactly the same* on every website. If google sees your business on one website as "102 Main St." and on another as "102 North Main Street"... google may consider these two be two different businesses.

A good place to start for getting your citations is the forum thread "Excellent Success with Google Local - See How I did it!"

Also, to keep track of all of them, I use a spreadsheet. Can't post the link to that either but you can find it by googling "Finding and Building Citations Like an Agency" which is on Moz. It's under the link halfway down the page "Feel free to download this free Local Citation Building Template."

I also setup an autofill profile with Lastpass just so I don't have to manually fill out *most* of the info on every site.