Local SEO rankings Question

breezynetworks · 12-06-2011, 05:18 AM

Hey guys,

Was just wondering what the priority was for dominating the local SEO market. I have a couple sites, one of which is a MMO Gaming eCommerce site which can rank for some fairly awesome keywords but only with local traffic.

Good news is that there IS good local traffic potential

So what is the best external SEO strategy?

1) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from Local IP addresses?
2) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from local domains (suffix for my country)

Are these very important for local rankings?

Thanks

Andyhenry · 12-06-2011, 05:33 AM

Google Places listing with reviews/citations combined with well SEO'd website with a few high PR links.

The links don't have to come from local IPs.

TBInternetMarketing · 12-06-2011, 09:20 AM

Yea, the big one is citations. This is Google's way of seeing how popular your business is in your area, and they seem to give preference to companies with lots of citations. Work on getting those before you do anything else.

bigcat1967 · 12-06-2011, 12:58 PM

You might want to try adwords as well as far as getting local traffic.

Also - using FB and Twitter to get local people would help as well.

googlepage1 · 12-06-2011, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by breezynetworks

Hey guys,

Was just wondering what the priority was for dominating the local SEO market. I have a couple sites, one of which is a MMO Gaming eCommerce site which can rank for some fairly awesome keywords but only with local traffic.

Good news is that there IS good local traffic potential

So what is the best external SEO strategy?

1) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from Local IP addresses?
2) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from local domains (suffix for my country)

Are these very important for local rankings?

Thanks

Yes, for local rankings these are important aspects. submitting website in local directories, listing business and getting links from other local business help the website to appear in top rankings in local search results.

rbrShorty · 12-07-2011, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by breezynetworks

Hey guys,

Was just wondering what the priority was for dominating the local SEO market. I have a couple sites, one of which is a MMO Gaming eCommerce site which can rank for some fairly awesome keywords but only with local traffic.

Good news is that there IS good local traffic potential

So what is the best external SEO strategy?

1) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from Local IP addresses?
2) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from local domains (suffix for my country)

Are these very important for local rankings?

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Google Places listing with reviews/citations combined with well SEO'd website with a few high PR links.

The links don't have to come from local IPs.

You are not allowed to have a Google Places listing for an online-based business. From the Google Places Quality Guidelines:

"Do not create listings at locations where the business does not physically exist. P.O. Boxes are not considered accurate physical locations. Listings submitted with P.O. Box addresses will be removed."

"Only businesses that make in-person contact with customers qualify for a Google Places listing."

Anyway, if you build links for local SEO, the only difference from the normal organic link building is that:

- you will have to look for location marker in the anchor text
- it is good to have links from relevant websites (as always) and the relevant ones would be local ones, so that would give you additional "points"

Hope that helps

ashleysmith12 · 12-07-2011, 05:28 AM

hi
make sure whatever you do you do in local search engine, ans post your link on local high PR sites for better results .

litmon · 12-07-2011, 05:37 AM

Submit your site on Local directories, Local maps like Google.

Post classified ads on Local classified website.

Set Geographic target country in Google Webmaster tool which makes huge difference.

Also get much more back links form local website.

maile15 · 12-07-2011, 05:45 AM

Local SEO is interesting, what do you mean with local maps like Google??

maymorgano · 12-07-2011, 06:53 AM

You MUST have a real local address. Google, Yahoo and even Bing will send you a postcard to verify the address.
This is the only way to go local and make any success at it.

BudgetSEO · 12-07-2011, 08:07 AM

Submit your site to local yellowpage themed websites (as said, need to have a real address)

webdevpro · 12-07-2011, 08:27 AM

Gaining local ranking is a bit difficult task though you can try building more backlinks by including your city name in the anchor text. e.g anchor link something like "city services".

Shopan · 12-09-2011, 01:32 AM

Seems to me that if a post card came to a Business that they could reply out of curiosity and you are promoting all the business of that type in the area surly one of them will take a whim and if anything else they will contact you and you can pitch the Idea of focusing the page to them....

lockseo · 12-15-2011, 08:11 AM

Any one have a tips for local business who have a large service area which mean a lot of different cities to serve so make more keyword phrase like 'city1 service' "city2 service" and so on what do u recommend make a page for each city or try to combine in on page like main city Metro area
Thanks for ur help worrior brother

MikeTheBuilder · 12-15-2011, 10:02 PM

city/town + keyword works really well for local search. If the comp isn't too stiff, just having the city/town listed at the footer is all you'll need to rank, as long as your onsite is solid.

12-06-2011, 05:18 AM	#1
breezynetworks Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 97 Thanks: 24 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Local SEO rankings Question Hey guys, Was just wondering what the priority was for dominating the local SEO market. I have a couple sites, one of which is a MMO Gaming eCommerce site which can rank for some fairly awesome keywords but only with local traffic. Good news is that there IS good local traffic potential So what is the best external SEO strategy? 1) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from Local IP addresses? 2) Blogs/forums/site backlinks from local domains (suffix for my country) Are these very important for local rankings? Thanks

12-06-2011, 05:33 AM	#2
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12-06-2011, 09:20 AM	#3
TBInternetMarketing Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: In your PC Posts: 2,075 Thanks: 83 Thanked 789 Times in 234 Posts	Re: Local SEO rankings Question Yea, the big one is citations. This is Google's way of seeing how popular your business is in your area, and they seem to give preference to companies with lots of citations. Work on getting those before you do anything else.

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ashleysmith12 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 231 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Local SEO rankings Question hi make sure whatever you do you do in local search engine, ans post your link on local high PR sites for better results .

12-07-2011, 05:37 AM	#8
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12-09-2011, 01:32 AM	#13
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12-15-2011, 08:11 AM	#14
lockseo Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 12 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Local SEO rankings Question Any one have a tips for local business who have a large service area which mean a lot of different cities to serve so make more keyword phrase like 'city1 service' "city2 service" and so on what do u recommend make a page for each city or try to combine in on page like main city Metro area Thanks for ur help worrior brother

12-15-2011, 10:02 PM	#15
MikeTheBuilder Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 54 Thanks: 17 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts Contact Info	Re: Local SEO rankings Question city/town + keyword works really well for local search. If the comp isn't too stiff, just having the city/town listed at the footer is all you'll need to rank, as long as your onsite is solid.