The Rapid Growth Of Local Search – Success Lies In Reviews

Shocking statistic: 85 percent of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations

Google’s largest growing segment in search is Local.  Meaning, individuals using search are looking to locate businesses local to them.  How many times have you hopped on your mobile phone and typed in ‘restaurants near me’ or ‘car wash near me’ or ‘pet shop near me’.  If you’re part of the 95% of people that perform local searches every year, you likely know exactly what I’m talking about.

How do businesses get ranked higher in local searches?  Or the bigger question we’re asked, how do businesses get ranked high in map-based searches?  A little backstory, Arrivala is owned by Bold City Agency, a leading web development & marketing company based in Florida.  Arrivala was created out of a desperate need by our clients as the most popular pre-sale question we received was, ‘how do I show up on map searches?’

While lots of factors go into your search ranking, one of the most simplistic and top ways to achieve growth in mobile search is through the collection of business reviews.  The problem, collecting reviews manually is difficult, time consuming, and therefore costly.  We found our clients did not want to pay the necessary money for us to take on this task on their behalf, and it was too time consuming for them to do it themselves.

We knew there had to be another way.  Enter Arrivala.

Arrivala should be the #1 tool your business invests in to grow your local search ranking by effectively automating the online business review collection process.  As Google and Bing continue their push into local search, your business does not want to be playing catch-up to competitors that are already ranking high and have dozens of customer reviews spread out across their business profiles.

Arrivala is able to connect with top search engines such as Google as well as business review platforms such as Yelp, Trip Advisor, Zillow, Avvo, AngiesList, OpenTable, Zomato, ZocDoc and dozens more to effectively increase your business ranking in search engines and provide greater credibility to your business.

Sign-up for Arrivala and start collecting online business reviews today!