How to get listed on Google Places for certain keywords?

To get listed on google places for certain keywords, we must perform off page seo techniques regularly and keep on updating your content.

A few tips (I've ranked all my own clients in top 3 for major cities and very competitive niches).


The first is not a point as it is a MUST HAVE. You need reviews for both GMB and conversions. It's estimated that 90% of people check online reviews before making a purchase decision.



***** REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS (get a review builder portal and make sure they push 4 & 5 star reviews online and 1 - 3 star reviews to stay private. This helps your listing and conversions hugely. *****



1. Make sure your listing and all your online citations are correct.


This means you need to check every single online listing for the business and fix any incorrect details. Eg their GMB address is: 1/5 Bob St Bob City CA USA


but they have listings that say:


Unit 1, Number 5 Bob Street, Bob City, California, United States of America


it might seem the same to you, but not to Google.



You need to try to get the exact same (try to copy/paste) details from your GMB listing. It isn't always possible as some sites have a different method, but keep as close as possible. And definitely fix all incorrect addresses.


You should do a full citation audit to determine what citations they have and which ones are indexed and listed.


2. Press releases: send out a monthly press release so that they get lots of top quality citations (most PR's have the business details at the bottom of the release). Make sure you use the right PR distribution service, they are not all created equal. The one I use gets you links from Fox, ABC, and many more major media outlets.


You also need to have a good PR writer who will use the best keywords in the PR to maximize your client's potential. You can drive a lot of traffic with a good PR!


3. Build more citations: only get the best citations. Try to get as many as possible in the same niche/industry as your clients. You can check their high ranking competitors by doing a search and using a tool like majestic.com to find out what citations they have (or go to Whitespark and pay the $20 a month fee to do a heap of citation searches to get all the main citations that your competitors have that are helping them to rank).



Make all the citations exactly the same as your GMB listing (see point 1).


4. Have your website working and well optimized with on page SEO so that it correlates with the categories in your GMB listing. Make sure it is responsive and works fast and well on mobile devices.


5. Build links to your citations. Boost all your citations by building links to them and ensuring that Google indexes as many as possible.



6. Geo tag your GMB images. Show Google exactly where you or your clients are by taking their images and geo tagging them with the city or suburb. Upload to GMB listing. Do this as often as possible.


7. Share new images and posts on your Google+ page. You can also share your new citations on your G+ page (just put a bunch of the citation links in a new G+ post).


8. Check your categories and make sure you are showing up for all your main categories and the ones your competitors use.


9. Optimize your description in GMB but don't overstuff keywords. Make it read well and just write your keywords once (maximum 2x).


10. Embed your Google map on lots of web 2.0's and build links to the 2.0's. Share on social media for social proof.


11. Generate maps to and from the business. Directions to major centers in the city help Google know where you are and where you travel to. This is particularly useful for businesses that travel to their clients such as plumbers. If they create a lot of driving directions from their business to their clients', Google will understand better their radius of work and you are more likely to appear in a wide range of searches.


If you want more info or help, hit me up!

You can do more business listing according to your targeted location more easier your Google business listing appear in the search results on your keyword + targeted city

Buiding more citations will definitely improve keywords in GMB. Try working on NAP.

Yes, You are in the way of archive the business.

'landscape gardeners (followed by the name of my city)'. it needs to analysis regional and long tail keyword based on landscape gardeners, and use them in Organic campaign fully ethical way. Then you will get traffic for your business and bit your competitor rank in Google SERP. It will take 4 to 5 month.

I think that it is easy to get caught up into the keyword frenzy and ranking.Things like views perpage directwebsitelinks,time spent on each page, page load speed have much more of an influence on ranking than do keywords I would suggest you to write valuable in a conversational tone for humans not google. Narrow down your search for keywords so that you aren't in such saturated market.

Yes , both on-page and off-page SEO activities can help your friend in improving the rank of his website on google.
By performing activities like:
1)Writing blogs
2)Article writing
3)Social bookmarking
4)Image sharing
5)Keyword Stuffing
6)Activities on social media
7)Infograph

First, select the proper category for your business. Build local citation more and more for local visibility. Post regularly on Google my Business. Optimize your site for that specific keyword.

What are Local Citations and What is the Importance of Citations for Local SEO?

Yes, You can do all the SEO activities such as On-page SEO and Off-Page SEO to rank the website keywords and traffic.
Off-Page SEO:
Article Submission
Social Bookmarking
Question/Answer
Info-graphics
Image and Video Submission
Forum Posting
Blogging
Business Directory
Document Sharing
Blog Commenting
Profiling