Best Methods for How to Rank for SEVERAL Local Keywords
I've been doing internet marketing for about 4 years and "offline marketing" for local businesses for about 2.5 years.
I have several clients that pay me monthly to do SEO for them, and get their website to rank better in Google.
I used to pride myself on being very good at SEO and knowing exactly what to do, and I always had good luck but for some reason these days I am struggling to get above some of the competition.
I know that local SEO is becoming bigger and more companies are doing it, but some of my clients' websites are becoming extremely difficult to rank well.
Another HUGE problem that I often face is that there are SO MANY keyword variations that I need to rank for and I wonder "how the hell am I suppose to get backlinks and rank for this whole list of keywords"...
For example - I do SEO for a carpet cleaning company who serves a very large area (2 counties). So he wants to show up for every town name:
carpet cleaner shelltown
carpet cleaner pearville
carpet cleaning oakdale
...I mean just think of the endless combinations of keywords that I want to rank for with a list of literally over 100 towns!
You might be thinking - "Joe, you idiot, you gotta break it down easier and do by county" but I do already, fact is, my people are searching by town.
I am really losing it lately as to what my strategy should be.
And just to avoid getting answers that I already know, Here is what I currently do (not in this order):
- Google Places with company business address
- Submissions to all other top online directories (Yelp, Yahoo, Manta, etc)
- Optimize website (META tags, XML sitemap, everything necessary)
- Backlinks (Some social bookmarks and then mostly article submissions using Unique Article Wizard)
The good thing about Unique article Wizard is that it allows me to create several different resource boxes for each article so that I can vary to keywords and anchor text dramatically...
And that is my biggest problem right now, is how the hell to rank for SO MANY dang keywords!
Anyone who has been through this and found a good solution please let me know!
Thanks in advance!
Joe
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