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Any other techniques to ranking a local site other than citations?

by Boomer7
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I have been doing national SEO for a while now, but recently a friend came to me for help with ranking his local service company.

I have been reading alot on local ranking techniques, and aside from an optimized site, KML geo tags, reviews, and citations there isn't much else mentioned.

My question is: Is there anything else you can do to boost the power of each citation? I have been getting his current customer to leave positive reviews, but can you pump the PR of the citation listing by building tier 2 links to it?

Also if you leave a full company name, address, phone number citation in say a guest post, will that count as a citation in the search engines?

Any other advice is greatly appreciated!
#citations #local #ranking #site #techniques
  • Profile picture of the author vndnbrgj
    Yes, you can backlink the citations.
    I would imagine it would work with a blog post if you put the NAP stuff there.
    You can have it in your YT videos that are connected to the G+ Local page as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Boomer7
      Thanks for the Youtube tip!

      What is NAP?
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  • Profile picture of the author Digital Traffic
    NAP =

    Name, Address, Phone Number
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  • Profile picture of the author Dustin Blevins
    I have had good success with my local business by ranking the keyword "city - niche". Did not have to use any citations and got tons of leads.
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  • Profile picture of the author maricelu
    Hello,
    You can read these blog posts to help you with your concern:
    40 Important Local Search Questions Answered | SEOmoz
    Local Search Ranking Factors | Local SEO Best Practices for Ranking in Google +Local
    The Definitive Guide to Local SEO | Search Engine Journal
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  • Profile picture of the author CandyxLand
    You aren't going to increase the PR of each backlink unless the backlinks themselves have PR. That's the way that it works. The cheapest way to do this is with dofollow blog comments on pages with high PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rus Sells
    How about good old fashioned on site seo.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cobaki
    I think local newspapers will also help. I know people still read these things and they can also be accessed online so it's a good way for a local business to get recognized.
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  • Profile picture of the author Boomer7
    The onpage SEO is polished. Just looking for more ideas to build citations.

    If you leave a full company name, address, phone number citation in say a guest post, will that count as a citation in the search engines?
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