{"id":1927,"date":"2019-01-14T19:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:36:43","slug":"how-to-claim-the-search-engine-real-estate-youre-entitled-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/how-to-claim-the-search-engine-real-estate-youre-entitled-to\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Claim the Search Engine Real Estate You&#8217;re Entitled To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/judicious-inc-local-seo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2164\" src=\"http:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/judicious-inc-local-seo.jpg\" alt=\"judicious inc local SEO\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/judicious-inc-local-seo.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/judicious-inc-local-seo-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/judicious-inc-local-seo-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/judicious-inc-local-seo-662x1024.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some business owners would LOVE to be on the first page of Google.<\/p>\n<p>Others couldn&#8217;t care less.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of which camp you fall into, it&#8217;s good to know that you can easily take advantage of available real estate on Google (and other sites) that&#8217;s waiting for you to claim it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Internet is basically yelling at you, shouting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hey!! &#8211; PLEASE fill out this profile, it&#8217;s YOURS. Don&#8217;t you want people who are searching for your business to know how to call you? Find your website? See what you have to offer?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now some of you still might not care. &#8220;Mmmyeah, still not interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with ignoring this is your competitors are currently filling up your spots. They&#8217;re literally occupying the Internet real estate you&#8217;re entitled to. Have a look:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/google-result-local-comparison.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1665\" height=\"1358\" src=\"http:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/google-result-local-comparison.png\" alt=\"Google result local comparison\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/google-result-local-comparison.png 1665w, https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/google-result-local-comparison-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/google-result-local-comparison-768x626.png 768w, https:\/\/judinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/google-result-local-comparison-1024x835.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1665px) 100vw, 1665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The business on the left, Adam&#8217;s Carpet Cleaning, is surrounded by similarly named competitors and unrelated things like books. The business on the right has the first page of Google wired. All results lead to a listing they control.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>There are two important scenarios you should be aware of where missing this opportunity is lost business.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>1. People search for you by your business name<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of your current customers and people who have met you or heard about you will do a Google search by typing in your business name or even your personal name (if that&#8217;s how you&#8217;ve communicated your business to others).<\/p>\n<p>And what can happen is once they arrive on that Google results page, they can easily get distracted by your competitors&#8217; results, or even a non-competing result, and not click on one of yours.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s incredibly important to claim everything <strong>that&#8217;s yours<\/strong> so that you <strong>take up as much real estate as possible<\/strong> on a Google results page.<\/p>\n<h2>2. People search for what you do<\/h2>\n<p>The other search behavior that your customers and prospects perform is a more general search for products and services that you offer &#8211; or even for how to solve a problem that you know how to solve.<\/p>\n<p>And the same strategy applies. Take advantage of all the Internet real estate out there that has been set aside for you and make sure it&#8217;s been designed to attract these kinds of searches.<\/p>\n<h2>We get this work done for our clients<\/h2>\n<p>The work is tedious, time-consuming, and takes going around the block a few times to get it dialed. But we&#8217;ve found that it&#8217;s of immense value to our clients. Additionally, once the work is done, it&#8217;s set for life. You don&#8217;t have to keep paying for it like a Google or YouTube advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in having us knock this out for you, please connect with our founder, Sean Work, using the form below. 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