There has been a increasing demand by local business owners to rank high on Google maps because that could be the determining factor to driving customers to your local business. Customers searching for a product or service location have already made a decision on what they want. This especially includes the majority of mobile users.
That is why ranking high on Google maps is so important.
Here is a basic list of key factors that will help boost your Google Maps Rankings and Organic Search Keyword Rankings.
1) Local business listings such as yelp, local.com yellowpages.com, citysearch ..etc
2) Back links with anchor text local keyword term
3) Good Content containing your keywords
4) SEO friendly website
5) Claim your business listing on Google, Bing, Yahoo
6) Reviews
7) Citations
