According to our research, adding location keywords such as city names to Local Business Listing Custom Fields helps getting your website listed within a 10-pack listing, but this seems like a secondary factor. Again, Google places values on your business physical address and adderss information in other business directory and yellowpage websites.

For other Google Maps algorithms, visit our Google Maps Algorithm page and Google Maps Optimization (Google Maps SEO) page.

Like we mention about videos in Google Maps Local Business Listing (LBL), the more information LBL has about your business the better. Remeber any updates to your local business listing can help you move up. Therefore, adding photos in Google maps LBL helps boosting up your ranking in Google Maps. For other Google Maps algorithms, visit our Google Maps Algorithm page and Google Maps Optimization (Google Maps SEO) page.

The more information Google Maps Local Business Listing (LBL) has about your business the better. More information means better user experience. Google values websites providing more information for online visitors. For other Google Maps algorithms, visit our Google Maps Algorithm page and Google Maps Optimization (Google Maps SEO) page.

Phone number is one of the ways the Google Maps algorithm determines how to map your business in Google Maps. There are many multiple businesses at the same address (different suite #s) with different phone numbers and Google keeps them distinct, so this should be one of the important factors. In addition, Google seems to not value a cell phone number as it used to.

This shouldn’t be a problem, but just in case, I would make sure if the 1st address and phone number is the one you want factoring into your LBC ranking. For instance, we do have three offices, but definately, our headquater, the most important location should come first. Some say “use a separate landing page for each physical address and phone number.” If you have a separate phone number for each location, it’d be more effective to Google maps optimization (Google maps SEO). Check other Google maps algorithm.

It seems that listing your business in multiple locations in Local Business Listing (LBL) has the negative impact of splitting the strength of your listings. This is very unfavorite to franchaised business that have multiple locations. Currently, we have three offices in Metro city, and once we added another location to Google Maps, the ranking suddently dropped down. We are investigating the solutions for multiple listings with same business name for Google maps seo.

It seems that adding product / servies in the Local Business Listing (LBL) Custom Field is helpful in ranking for long-tail local search phrases. We are still testing how LBL custome field effect the ranking in Google Maps (google maps seo), but Google says that it’s important, so we still recommend you to add detail information in the LBL custom filed.