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- About OptiLocalOptiLocal was established by Nyagoslav Zhekov in 2011. The company specializes in Google Places and local search engine optimization (SEO) for small businesses. Our core mission is to create positive, sustainable online presence and image for each of our clients and to help them gain business through their Google Places pages. Google Places has turned into one of the must-have, integral aspects of the online presence of any business all over the world. Why? Because when you search for any term, related to some kind of business on Google and you add to this term any location word (i.e. “restaurant New York”), the results that are shown at the uppermost part of the page are the Google Places pages of the businesses. Those business owners who are smart enough to optimize their Places pages will gain greater visibility, leading to more phone calls or clicks on their websites, which in turn could potentially lead to more business. Even though any Google Places optimization is strongly advised, only the 7 most ingenious business owners might get access to the “golden mine” called “first results page”. Do you want to be one of them? …
- ServicesAt OptiLocal, we are happy to offer our clients “the full package” of services that they need in order to have a strong, search engine friendly, positive and sustainable online presence. These include but are not limited to everything from the creation of the client’s website itself through Local SEO, Google Places Optimization, Local PPC Campaign Management, to analyzing the results. We specialize in businesses which target gaining new clients locally. As a small company founded by good friends, we take pride in the high quality of our services, highly competitive prices and great customer service. Our principles when optimizing a client’s online presence are impeccable – we only follow best practices as determined by the official guidelines of the search engines, our own experience and the research of well-established specialists. We do not engage in any black or gray hat optimization. Despite the company’s young age, some already consider us one of the leaders in the local search world. Take advantage now of our FREE CONSULTATION offer and contact us. This discussion is not binding you in any way and is completely casual. It includes a basic review of your local search strategy. Note: it does not include any…
- ClientsOur client base consists of a wide range of companies from various types and geographic regions. Currently, we provide professional local search marketing services for the following countries and business types: Countries: USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, Bulgaria,Romania, Dubai Business types: hotel, restaurant, doctor, dentist, lawyer, accountant, retail store, interior designer, real estate agency, beauty salon, electrician, plumber, car mechanic, consultant, SEO agency, piano teacher We do not confine only to these and are always open to accept new challenges. We have consulted companies from over 20 countries and over 50 specializations. While we take pride in the results that we have achieved with our clients, we prefer to protect our privacy and that of our customers. Therefore, the following testimonials are displayed anonymously. If you are interested in hearing from our past or present clients, we are happy to serve a special request and get you in contact with them. Testimonials: You have been great and thats why I hired you for the next month and fot the many months after. (B.G., USA) Finding Nyagoslav Zhekov was a very lucky accident. He has helped first by giving tips on google…
- FAQ1. What is Google Places? 2. Why doesn’t my listing show up in search results? 3. What does “There is no data for your request” on my Google Places dashboard refer to? 4. Why is the information that shows up for my company on Google Maps not the same as what I added via my dashboard? 5. Why am I unable to verify my listing by phone? What is Google Places? Google Places is a product of Google Inc. presented officially on 20 April 2010. Its main purpose is to collect data for businesses and visualize it in the search results for particular search queries. Google Places is still not available everywhere. You can look up the current availability in your country via this Mapping tool availability page. Some of the benefits of Google Places are outlined here. Why doesn’t my listing show up in search results? Ranking of Google Places listings is based on an algorithm. There are hundreds of factors to be considered, but the most important ones are: relevance, distance, prominence. You can read more on each of these in the official “Ranking of Listings” article by Google. The Local Search Ranking Factors are a series of…
- Citation Sources for Local SearchThroughout our work here at OptiLocal we have kept a careful track of which local citation sources have worked best for our clients and assembled some “top” lists that we constantly update as we learn from our practice. Also, for your convenience, we have written up instructions on how to list your business on the directories in each of these lists. Contact us now if you are interested in getting one or more of the following and get a valuable citation for local search: – 250+ local business directories in the US (with instructions on how to list your business on them) – 100+ local business directories in Canada (with instructions) – 100+ local business directories in the UK (with instructions) – 70+ local business directories in Germany (with instructions) – 50+ local business directories in Australia (with instructions) – 100+ local business directories for restaurants (US) (with instructions) – 50+ local business directories for lawyers (US) (with instructions) – 50+ local business directories for physicians (US) (with instructions) – other lists on demand You can always use our citation building service as a stand alone, which we usually offer packaged with our Google Places Optimization service. And here is…
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Local Search Index by Go Local
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Go Local announced yesterday an interesting research on local search. Its basis is a local search index (LSI) for the “online local search activity across 50 cities and 30 verticals” , whose value is assigned “by analyzing data in this cross section”. While the index’ absolute value is not that interesting, its components distribution is to be noted. There are two …
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Long Awaited Google Places Quality Guidelines Changes
Google just made some very long awaited changes on their Places Quality Guidelines. They are closely related to the business location and give answer to some of the most frequently asked questions. Here are the changes: Now: Do not create a listing or place your pin marker at a location where the business does not physically exist. P.O. Boxes are …
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The Reduced Google Places Local Search Results – Why?
A few days ago, Mike Blumenthal first noted that the Google Places results when performing local search have been reduced for a number of markets. Now, one could find 3-packs and 4-packs (I’ve never seen such before) even for major, very highly competitive search terms such as “Hotel San Francisco“, or “Restaurant New York“. What is the reason and the …
Read MoreMy 2011 Local Search Round Up on Mike Blumenthal’s Blog
I just wanted to notify those of you who don’t know yet that my article on the most important events in the local search world was posted on Mike Blumenthal’s local search blog. If you are interested, you could find it here.
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Google Places Reviews Finally Showing up on AdWords Ads?
A few weeks ago I wrote about the AdWords – Google Places linkage and the corresponding reviews that could (and should) potentially appear on the live ads. However, a little later Matthew Hunt provided some feedback saying that this function is currently not working. Here is an excerpt from an answer he received from a Google AdWords rep: I also …
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Best of 2011 in Local SEO and Local SEM
If you read this blog regularly, you should know it’s all about local SEO and local SEM. If you don’t, well, now you know. During the year we went through literally hundreds, or even thousands, of local search marketing related articles and we learned a lot from them. We also tried to share some of our knowledge via our blog …
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all local SEO fans and friends! (by Nyagoslav and Vladislav) May Santa Claus (Uncle Google and Aunt Bing) bring more position 1′s to the children that behaved (did not use black hat techniques)!
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Places within Places – Google Maps Going Indoors
Google’s desire to know everything and to provide the most comprehensive information keeps evolving. One of their newest efforts is mapping the business’ indoors and making connections between container and contained stores. The first step was a Google Places Quality Guidelines addition from the beginning of August this year. The following rule was introduced: Some businesses may be located within …
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Yext – A Good Way to Make Your NAP Consistent
Update: 13 Dec 2011, 4PM EST: Howard Lerman (CEO of Yext) confirmed that an expansion in Europe and Australia is scheduled. However, according to him this would not happen before 2013. Today Yext launched their new enhanced PowerListings product – “Turbo”. That made me think it would be a good idea to write a small review about Yext in general …
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Dealing with Google Places Duplicate Listings
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article on Search Engine People named “How to Deal with Duplicate Listings on Google Places“. It was my second post as a guest blogger there after I wrote about Google Places verification workarounds. We agreed that I become a regular contributor for their blog, so now you could see my articles there …
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OptiLocal, Ltd.
Placement Improved Dramatically
“…Finding Nyagoslav Zhekov was a very lucky accident. He has helped first by giving tips on google forum, then by working on our website and listing placement, which has improved dramatically as a result. He is patient with our technical inexperience, and has excellent communication skills. We heartily recommend his service.“
–Sandra Gibbens – Englandstars
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Blow the American Market Away
“…Nyagoslav is fantastic. He is going to Blow the American Market away with what he can do with Google Places. I have been in the Offline Search Engine Marketing game for a couple of years now and it is so hard to find great outsourcers you trust. But this guy knows what he is doing. Make sure you get him to work on your business before your competitors. He is a Cold Hard Business Getter! A+++“
–Stephen Martin – New Zealandstars
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Hired for the Next Month
“…You have been great and thats why I hired you for the next month and fot the many months after.“
–Brett Gremillion – USAstars
OptiLocal is rated based on 4 ratings from 4 user reviews