If you had trouble in the past (or maybe right now?) ranking high in search engines, then you probably know that the best solution is to find yourself an experienced search engine optimization professional who can help you in achieving high rankings - and it's the same with the local search engine results as well, which is called Google Places. It's a terrible experience when you spend days or weeks optimizing pay per click campaigns and maybe other paid marketing methods as well, but the desired results elude you!