When you search in my area just for “Window cleaning” I come up first. That’s really great. But, I’m south of the city I do all of my work in by about fifteen miles. When I put the name of the city I’m nowhere on the list - “Joplin Window Cleaning”. I just did a search for it and I wasn’t even on any of the extended list. How can I change this so I can base myself out of Joplin?
What platform do you use to manage your google listing?
Are you searching in incognito?
Use Google search console to monitor your ranking and google analytics to monitor the site traffic.
To rank in these areas you are most likely going to need to create some content on your site for them. Like h1 tags , script and or photos.
To rank high organically will be the long game. If you want to rank higher now then google ads will be the ticket. From what I know about your situation perhaps organic rankings is more of what your going for. I’d say invest massive amounts of time in learning SEO and website structure.
@AdamPWC, I don’t know all of the options. I just made it up on Google My Business and that’s how I manage it. How else can you manage it? Which platforms can you use?
@Luke, I searched incognito. I would understand if I were on the list towards the end, but I’m nowhere to be found. I search specifically in Joplin and there are ten window cleaners and I’m no where on the list. You search for churches and it gives you back like 200 results and then goes to surrounding areas, but not with window cleaning and I don’t know why. How can I relocate my listing so it doesn’t just come up when around my home town and actually comes up in Joplin?
@stoneface, as Luke mentioned, google ads is a good way to go (now called “AdWords Express”) see if you can find the forum thread “google business” I explained this same thing to someone else using screenshots of my AdWords account. Also, make sure you have also added your business to “google maps”. Let me know if you have any other questions with this.
And of corse, to be at the top of the list, you’ll need to set your budget for paid ads with AdWords. The app makes it very easy to manage
I had Adwords set up for a month. It said I got 5,940 impressions and 41 clicks, but I got no calls at all. I know I need to sink my effort into it more than I have and conentrate it into certain aspects of Adwords, but I don’t have the money now.
Right now I’m trying to figure out how to centralize my listing in Joplin. If I just search “Window Cleaning” I come up, but if I search “Joplin Window Cleaning” I am not on the list. I imagine if I had my ad as listed in Joplin I would come up on the list. I want to “relocate” so I come up to searches in Joplin. How can I do this?
Don’t know for sure yet if this will work for good, but I just went in the”google my business” app, changed my address to a nearby bigger city. It didn’t ask me to confirm my address in any way, just saved to my profile.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I wouldn’t have thought that would work. They have me verify it after I established it.
They typically will ask you to confirm it .
If you’re wanting to rank well in specific cities, this is not going to be a fix. You’re going to have to read up on SEO or hire somebody to build your site.
Is “joplin” mentioned ever on your website?
Be careful doing spammy things to your Google listing. They can and will suspend the account.
It doesn’t say Joplin and I know I’ll have to hire someone to optimize the SEO. That’s something I’m planning on doing when I get more money or more time in the next couple of months. Right now I don’t care if I can do well on the Joplin list, I would just like to be on it. Last spot would be fine with me.
Just to be on the list can be a bit difficult if your site is not optimized at all. I would start researching SEO. Start with keywords.
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You’re not guaranteed to be listed at all just because you have a site. SEO can be frustrating, but it’s just one of those things you’ll have to research.