i have many sites and doing local listing. but none of them appearing in serpAlthough they are active in google place. What are the reason they are not appearing in serp .Is there any optimization techniques that can help in appearing local listing?
Google Places and Google organic search are completely different. Google Places is based on a physical location that triggers the list to display for geographic relevance. Optimizing Google places is done by placing top keywords in the Business title and by getting references to your physical location on other websites to validate your physical location. Reviews from other websites such as Kudzu and Yelp will help your Google Places placement as well.
In order for your pages to appear in SERP you will need to have your website linked from another website already indexed in Google or create a Google xml sitemap and submit it to Google Webmasters so that they will crawl and index your site.
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