HELP: How Do You Dominate Local Business Results In Google?

1) list your business on maps.google.com
http://www.google.com/local/add/busi...gl=us&hl=en-US

2) list your business on local.yahoo.com

3) ensure your location target is in your title tag on your website, use it in an <h1> tag
near the top of your site...have a few (don't over do it, it's not necessary) mentions
of it in the body/text of your site.

4) Drop a few backlinks from other sites to your site with the anchor text you're targeting
eg; <a href="http://yoursite.com">your location focus business name</a>

Don't forget to mix in a little web 2.0 property fun too.
eg; youtube, aol vid, squidoo, and a few articles

Also a nice 19 dollar webwire press release can help get you some traction.

and of course the almighty socialbookmarking...nail it a few times on those as well:
socialmarker.com is a great freebie tool to assist with that process.


Enjoy

-Sean



PS: BIG WOOPS -- just re-read your post. Ok for google maps listings ensure your keyword phrase is used as the business name, I know it's may be counter-intuitive but
you have to be a keyword wh*re there to get it ranking. Also, ensure you use the keyword phrase again somewhere in the description....then get a few reviews
to provide a little activity on it. This has helped with some of my clients to bump up
that listing a bit.

HTH

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you can target specific areas (and mark areas where you wish to avoid) quite easily by producing a customised polygon or some similar shape on the map - quite easy really - just read through the instructions under the 'custom' tab in the EDIT Areas section.

Hey thanks guys! Must be one of those days lol (I totally forgot to submit to targeted specific areas in google maps)