Everyday, we answer small business customers’ questions on how to “show up” in search engines.

David Mihm has done an extensive survey of local SEO experts and distilled their responses into a fantastic summary of local search engine ranking factors

David doesn’t provide a summary of all of them listed in rank order, so I’ve taken the liberty of creating a summary spreadsheet.

It’s important to note that these have been reverse engineered from the search engines in one way or the other; but this is a very valuable snapshot of current common wisdom among local SEO folk.

(via screenwerk)