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Just recently I haven't been getting ANY calls from new customers looking for detailing services. During the winter here it normally slows down but it's never been this bad. I'm talking ZERO phone calls in the last two weeks. What pisses me off is the local hologram installer down the street has two cars in the bay every time I drive by.

So, today I'm poking around online and I notice that when I search for "Auto Detailing Sherwood, OR" the local shop up the street is the ONLY listing that shows up!!! I am now nowhere to be found on Google Maps. All the other local shops are missing too! This ONE company is now getting ALL the new business from this and similar search terms.

HOW DO I FIX THIS!!??

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=auto+detailing+sherwood&ie=UTF-8&mid=1385227320
 
You're probably going to have to take a look at your website and make sure you're adding location info into your website in more than just one place (top, bottom and in the text of your site).

A good way to get back on google maps is to create a google+ page for your business.

If you can, try incorporating rich snippets to your website (http://schema.org/). This helps immensely with seo.

Hope this helps :)
 
Contact google and let them know the situation. They will hook you up . I went from not listed until page 4 to top of the list in just over two months. You could also do adwords cpc so your at the top of the 1st page everytime.
 
Google+ page, Yelp Page, & Angies List are all good places to have your info that will pull high search priority
 
Google adwords should solve this problem for $50 a month. I gain 90% of my business through being at the paid searches in google.
 
SEO is the way to slowly build your generic search presence.

That being said, it can take months to get placed where you want.

Google Adwords will have you at the top placement within 30 minutes of signing up! It is an amazing tool that has been a staple of building my business.

If you are looking to build your business and have a nice website, this should be something you pay constant attention to.
 
If you want to show up on google maps that doesn't require SEO. Just type in google maps business or something like that. You will be asked to fill out your information and then they will send you a postcard with a security code to verify your business and you will show up on the map. As for the SEO stuff I am trying to figure it out myself. I am on AdWords but haven't gotten any calls from it yet so right now its just costing me money.
 
Thanks for the input guys!

AdWords is a great idea. I actually use AdWords quite often and have found it to be the best return on investment for advertising. My goal, though, is to get better placement organically (which is free). Or in the case of this Google Maps search term I just want to show up, period.

Let me offer a little more back story. I do have a Google+ local page (or whatever it's called) to show up on Google Maps. For the last 10-12 months I would show up in the top 1-2 spots when someone searched for "auto detailing sherwood or" but all of a sudden I'm not showing up at all. As a matter of fact NOBODY is showing up out of all the local mobile detailing guys and shops in the area. The only business that is now listed is ONE shop that puts out questionable work. It's really odd. And it just started happening recently.

This same shop is also highlighted in the normal web search organically with a HUGE map that shows where they are. It's the only detailing business in the area that is highlighted in this way. It's not an AdWords thing (that I know of).

In any event I would like to be highlighted like they are in organic results. Anyone know how to do this? Is this what rich snippets will do?
 
motoo344 said:
If you want to show up on google maps that doesn't require SEO. Just type in google maps business or something like that. You will be asked to fill out your information and then they will send you a postcard with a security code to verify your business and you will show up on the map. As for the SEO stuff I am trying to figure it out myself. I am on AdWords but haven't gotten any calls from it yet so right now its just costing me money.
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Biggest reasons people get little from AdWords is

Website issues such as hard to read, hard to understand, non professional looking

Poor ads such as not describing your service well, not eye catching.

Place a personal touch in your ad such as your real name or the county you live in. This will help people not automatically ignore your ad thinking it was from some large corporation.

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motoo344 said:
If you want to show up on google maps that doesn't require SEO. Just type in google maps business or something like that. You will be asked to fill out your information and then they will send you a postcard with a security code to verify your business and you will show up on the map. As for the SEO stuff I am trying to figure it out myself. I am on AdWords but haven't gotten any calls from it yet so right now its just costing me money.
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This is sort of true. You will show up but will it be on the first page...probably not. You will need to work on local SEO and build a google+ local page. Lots of things influence your local rankings, such as geographical location to whom ever is searching, how many positive reviews you have, local citations, etc.
 
Nicholas

They are using a Google authorized SEO company that is why their organic listing is highlighted. I know of several companies that offer such things

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Scott@IncrediblyDetailed said:
This is sort of true. You will show up but will it be on the first page...probably not. You will need to work on local SEO and build a google+ local page. Lots of things influence your local rankings, such as geographical location to whom ever is searching, how many positive reviews you have, local citations, etc.
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Gotcha. I was just thinking of the map, I know if I type in 'doylestown detailing' I come up in google maps and I know my SEO isn't very good. Something I working on and trying to learn and create a brand for myself.
 
VP Mark said:
Nicholas

They are using a Google authorized SEO company that is why their organic listing is highlighted. I know of several companies that offer such things

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I don't know if this is something an SEO company can do though. A while back I actually had a sales gig at one of those big "Google AdWords Resellers" and I have never seen anything like this happening...

They can highlight your listing but they can't make other businesses NOT show up in organic results.

Let me get some screen shots to show you what I mean. 1 sec...
 
This is what the Google Maps listing normally looks like when someone would do a search for "auto detailing sherwood or" (I added mobile at the front just so I could get a screen shot of "normal" search results). Notice how a bunch of businesses are listed. This is what it should look like normally.
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Now this is what is happening now.. just this ONE business is shown with NO other listings appearing (other paid listings).
auto_detailing_sherwood_maps.PNG


The more I look at this the more it seems like a problem that I'll have to call Google to take care of..........................
 
And a similar thing is happening on regular web search with this one business being highlighted with their own little map vs a map of all detailing shops in the area.

When I type "auto detailing tigard or" (this is a nearby city) the results show a mini map on the right with pins for all the other detailing businesses nearby.
auto_detailing_tigard_or.PNG


But for "auto detailing sherwood or" this one business is the only one that is highlighted. No others are listed even though there are dozens of other shops and mobile part timers that normally would show up.
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How can I get my business highlighted in this fashion?
 
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I agree no one can make you not show up. You might want to call Google and see what they think of this. Is it possible someone is going around and telling Google their competitors are no longer in business? There are ways to submit this information to Google but I can't imagine they wouldn't do at least a cursory verification.

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Those look like Adwords ads to me sir. Hold on let me get on my computer and look.

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Those are definetely Adwords ads. See how they are slightly shaded in pink? All of those are paid ads.
 
VP Mark said:
Those are definetely Adwords ads. See how they are slightly shaded in pink? All of those are paid ads.
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Mark, I know which ones are the paid AdWords listings but what is messed up is the map. How can only one business be listed in the map for the whole city??? That's what I don't get. These two problems must somehow be connected to one another.
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