You need a blog for three very important reasons. First, Google loves new material and a blog (if you keep it up of course) provides lots of new material. Two, a whole raft of Internet Search professionals list blogging as the number two way to get traffic to your website via search results. Three, the blog is the center of your social media universe.

Today I want to give you instructions on how to add a coupon to your local listing in Google. The following are the steps to accomplish this.

My Google map view results show up within 24 hours of my listing it in the local search results.

I’m surprised at the number of businesses that have not taken up the option to have a free local map listing on Google. Today I want to explain how to get that listing in several easy steps.