Local SEO.....how?

You can setup the listing for areas served, but I haven't seen anyone rank well that way. If you figure out the trick, share it with us.

You have to SEO for every city, it helps if you have multiple locations and actually have offices in these locations. You can have as many Google place pages as you want as long as the name of the business you enter into the duplicate place page is the name of the business, not carpet cleaning, unless the companies business license says carpet cleaning Google won't buy that. But Google maps is OK with multiple place pages, perhaps one for each city, Google isn't going to post all your duplicates anyways, they will only post one per SERP.

You really need to have at least a webpage for each thing you are trying to rank for, and a place page for each one won't hurt.

David, Google also just recently changed the way they post the local results, for those businesses with place pages where they have posted an owner verified listing with the web URL of the business, Google maps/place page is taking the title from the title field for the website that is listed on the place page, so offline businesses are at a serious disadvantage, becasue take a look at this example: bankruptcy attorneys richmond - Google Search Match A has Bankruptcy as the first word in their title field from their website, match B also has Bankruptcy Attorneys Richmond in the title tag (this is one of my clients sites), I targeted bankruptcy attorneys richmond. So the local result ranking is determined by mostly the website that is linked in the place page.

Also notice how I registered the domain name bankruptcyattorneysrichmond.com and put that on a place page, this attorney had at one point 10 place pages. Google (google maops people) actually called me about it, and said I had to remove the keywords from the title tag on the place pages, and that place pages required the actual name of the business and I couldn't call the name of the business "bankruptcy attorneys richmond", so I changed all my place pages so as to not cheat the title tag according to them, But I have been taking advantage of this for a year, before they busted me on it.

Also place pages are ranked according to the search, one place page might come up #1 for: carpet cleaning chilicothe but for: carpet cleaning cleveland that same place page might be #89 in the cleveland listing/search.

Hope this helps!

Hope this helps.

Local SEO is geo-targeted but that won't help you rank in a competitive city or industry (think hotels in New York, London, etc). For that you need reviews (from the major feed sites and local directories) and you need to optimise your Places page with your keywords.

Websensible is right, not just keyword stuffing , you need reviews, entry in third party directory and onpage optimizations , yes there is Onpage optimizations for (places) Local SEO. only few people know about it though . we ranked our clients for highly competitve keywords without keyword stuffings .

Are you talking about the organic listings or the Places listing? To me it seems that you are asking about organic listings and most of the replies are geared towards the place page, which is great except you can't do it (honestly) without an actual address in the city.

So, you are stuck with getting an address or focusing on the organic side of the equation. To dominate the organic listing you can just create one master site and create a page for each city ( carpetcleaninggods.com/los-angeles ). If you backlink enough to each page, you will get to the top.

Or create a separate site for each city. It will be a bit easier to rank but the cost is higher.

Finally, if you are getting paid enough, do both. You can grab two spots on the first page this way.

HTH...

I wrote about geo-targeted SEO. There are a number of things that you can do to get more local traffic to your site.

One I did not mention was buying local, keyword rich domains and blogging/writing/SEO-working the sites and then linking to your main site. Think "new york lawyer", "Debuque Beauty Shop" or whatever your keywords are that you are focusing.

Fun stuff!

Thanks everyone for the input.

Yes, I am asking about organic SEO.

As what i have learnt before, you can rank for local business with few factors:
1. get a local hosting server that you want to rank in that area
2. SEO with your location in that area.

I have tested it and i see that my site ranks really well with that technique