Many small businesses do not know that you can get some free advertising on Google, using Google Local or Google Maps. Google is looking to increase the value of their local search and their mapping application, so they have a simple way for you to tell them some information about your business, and now they are infusing those results into their main search engine.
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http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1612/Free-Advertising-on-Google.aspx
