With Google being the most dominate search engine, everybody wants to be a part of it. This doesn’t come as any surprise. How many times have you heard somebody say “Google It”.

With the information available from www.hitwise.com;

Google Receives 68 Percent of U.S. Searches in May 2008

Search leader continues record growth – up 5 percent year-over-year;

Google accounted for 87 percent of searches in UK

For any new business or even existing business this is very worrying. As shoppers increase their grip on available spends. This must be matched with increased visibility.

Most people know that you can get your website to a No1 position in Google with just creating an adwords account, but how many people know you can get the same result for free? Maybe not for competitive words such as web design but we know we can get the top spot for web design preston the answer is found in Google local business finder. It’s simple to get your website included in the results but time for inclusion is 6 months.

If you follow this link Google Local Business Center you’ll be up and running in minutes, verification is needed either to an address, land-line or SMS.

Basically it’s works by plotting local businesses on a map when a service or business is searched for with a location the results are shown.