When talking with businesses about their websites, I often hear folks brag about their great placement on Yahoo or Bing, but rarely does anyone brag about being on the first page or first listing of Google.

Google Share of Search Market

When I ask them why they are not on Google, they generally look down and say [insert your favorite excuse here] and ask if there is anything I can do about that. If you look a the little picture here, you see that Google now commands almost 70% of the search engine market.  Even if you were all ten listings on the first page of Yahoo and Bing, it might only bring your advertisement to maybe 15% of those looking for your services.

At Ask a Friend Publishing Company, we help local businesses by getting them onto the first page of Google, and get top listings on Google for their local keywords.  If you have a business in [location] and want your website to come up for a given [keyword] as a local listing, then we can help you get there when someone searches for [location keyword] or [keyword location]

For Google, when someone has their location set (if you have a Gmail account and are logged in, you have a location set), it will also show local results. Google Matters Folks, because it is where 70% of those looking for something search.