SEO Advice for local business...

Hey Ben, I'm also from Manchester coincidently.

Have you added your business to Google Maps? That is the most important thing you can do.

Nothing is impossible, yes you can get on higher seats, all you have to do is to opt for sound SEO strategies and practices. But be sure you do generic SEO.

Regards

DanielCooper is exactly right , you should focus on local seo , and social marketing ..there are many local directories out there where you can submit your business or hire some one to do this for you

Try to optimize your google place with reguler keywords and reviews.

Hello,

Well, you can notice that in local business, the results now appear at the top for the majority of searches you can obtain additional benefits by submitting your site to local results. So, my advice is that you should think about the fact that many people will want to deal with a local company. I hope it would help you !!


Thanks!!

Looking at your profile, consider adding an H2 Header.



Then looking at your links, it looks like your domain needs a little bit more link diversity. Your backlinking strategy appears to focus mostly on the root domain, you could also link a few inner pages.

Anything high pr is probably going to give you a boost. Because your PA and DA (page authority and domain authority) are relatively low compare to other sites. This is mostly due to the lack of links coming from multiple IPs.

Get more high quality backlinks, using your targeted keywords as anchor text.

I run an offline business targeting local customers. My online efforts have worked great for business.

Add a blog and target more keywords with posts - always optimizing for your town and surrounding towns.

Create another website with unique content. Then approach other personal trainers and fitness-related sites for a link exchange. However, don't do reciprocal linking. Instead, link from your site B to their site and ask the other site to link to your main site. Each of you get a one-way link. I wouldn't do this thousands of times, but a hundred or so will do the trick (as well as other backlinks).

Go to CommentLuv Network and add great comments on the fitness blogs linking to your site for backlinks and networking in the fitness industry.

As other people have said, create a Google Places account. Add as much content as you're permitted - photos, videos, details, coupons, and then ask clients to write reviews. List a local landline telephone number - not a toll free number.

List your business with local directories.

Go to the your top-ranked competitors and reverse engineer their backlinks. You can likely also get backlinks where they did - especially if they're blog comments.

If your looking for up position in Google Local then try some local business directory and try to optimize your local listing like customer review, videos, news, and articles. We believe that all this stuff will improve your local listing position.

Here are some tips on local business that should help get you started.
Local Directories
Pay-Per-Click Campaigns

I think the best way to use it using the optimal seo working.

This thread is pretty old guys.