Backlink testing for Local Listings?

wahmsuzanne

14 years ago

Would you please explain what "Reviews+Citations=good rankings" means ... I appreciate it.

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Louise Green

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rocketguy

I know everyone says the formula is Reviews+Citations=good rankings

If you get just citations and reviews, you might have some luck but it probably won't last too long. There's a whole lot more to local listings than just those two factors. And even those two factors should be broken down into more, for example with reviews; the review quality, frequency and source.

Wish I had the time to write a 50 page guide to explain how to do it.

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Rocketguy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Louise Evans

If you get just citations and reviews, you might have some luck but it probably won't last too long. There's a whole lot more to local listings than just those two factors. And even those two factors should be broken down into more, for example with reviews; the review quality, frequency and source.

Wish I had the time to write a 50 page guide to explain how to do it.

I definitely understand there is a lot more to it. Just as there is a whole lot more then just getting backlinks for good organic rankings.

Now back to the topic of backlinks for the local listings.

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Louise Green 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rocketguy

I definitely understand there is a lot more to it. Just as there is a whole lot more then just getting backlinks for good organic rankings.

Because it's a different algorithm I can't see how sending normal backlinks to the profile page will have any impact unless you're aiming for an organic listing.

In our tests certain type of backlinks to the profile does have a massive improvement but they aren't being sent from websites. There's high risk but high reward backlinks, if I go into details here I'm sure 100's of people would misunderstand the correct way to do it, and end up damaging their listings. It's confusing for a lot of people because there's so much out of date info around, and Google employ a team of people to keep an eye on what we SEO's are doing, how we do it, then changing the algorithms to catch us out (which suddenly makes all our work black hat - there is a way round this too though, to make sure you're always only working with white hat methods).

Thing is, Google are updating their algorithms on a near daily basis, so what works today might not work next month.

In short, yes backlinking to your profile works but backlinks from other websites doesn't make that much of a difference, at least according to our link graphs.

Also in our tests the anchor text of normal backlinks to the business website (and not the profile page) does play a small part in Local Listings.

Our tests results are based on getting hundreds of businesses listed in the top 3 of the 7 pack so at least for the moment, we know what's working, for the moment.
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  Just list yr website on the local yellow pages, business directorys' etc.
  
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Rocketguy

14 years ago

See an example below

Plastic Surgeon in Scottsdale

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wahmsuzanne 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rocketguy

See an example below

Plastic Surgeon in Scottsdale

OK ... that looks great! Have you posted somewhere on the steps you take to get these local results? I'd love to see them. Thanks!!! *huGs* Suzanne
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Rocketguy

14 years ago

I am going to be doing some extensive testing to see how the local listings respond.

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wahmsuzanne 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rocketguy

I am going to be doing some extensive testing to see how the local listings respond.

Hi rocketguy ... I can't pm you here ... I tried to send you a message via your contact form and I got a 404 error message. I'd love talk to you about the google maps results you're getting - are you willing? *SmiLes* Suzanne

mail [at] suzannefranco [dot] com
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Rocketguy

14 years ago

Here are two different ways to link to your profiles in the maps. I am doing testing and should know within a week if this is working well or not. I guess only time will tell.

Zed Electric Inc - Google Maps

san diego electricians

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Rocketguy

14 years ago

I am also going to do some testing with citations as well and see if they work well only for the most popular directories that everyone is already using or if they work on just about any website.

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Rocketguy

14 years ago

I have been doing some testing over the last few days and no changes so far. I know if I would have been doing this much backlinking to my website it would have probably already been ranking on the first page.

So far it looks like backlinking to your local listing isn't working yet. I will keep testing.

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wahmsuzanne

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rocketguy

I have been doing some testing over the last few days and no changes so far. I know if I would have been doing this much backlinking to my website it would have probably already been ranking on the first page.

So far it looks like backlinking to your local listing isn't working yet. I will keep testing.

Thanks for the valuable update ... let us know how it goes

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Rocketguy

14 years ago

I am also going to be testing citations on the non traditional websites. Meaning non from your standard local business directories. I want to see how well that works as well.

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va_mom

14 years ago

Hey Rocketguy... kindly update us regarding your experiment, okay? Thanks for sharing!

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bgray

14 years ago

I don't have any evidence of the effectiveness but I can say that I am seeing it done on a more regular basis through my directory. I think it's a good play considering the placement and emphasis Google is putting on the local listings these days.

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Rocketguy

14 years ago

So far no major change and I sent a lot of links. If this would have been done to a website it would have already been the number one spot in google for organics.

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jsherloc

14 years ago

Google updates their local listings/places less way less frequently than the organic listings, at least that is the case in my experiences. Instead of taking a week to see your work, it might take a month or two. Just throwin it out there, although they have been really working their "local" team lately, so maybe they can update things a bit faster. I'd love to read your results on this matter over time, thanks!

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gmr324

14 years ago

Google updates their local listings/places less way less frequently than the organic listings, at least that is the case in my experiences. Instead of taking a week to see your work, it might take a month or two.

I hear you on that. Have been backlinking the Maps listing url and adding reviews and citations like mad and no movement. At the same time, the organic listings for the associated website has moved multiple pages.

I have a quick question about social bookmarking citations. I understand it's a good practice to SB the urls of citations to get them indexed more quickly. I'd prefer not to have to pay $5 per citation outsourcing this n a site like fiverr.com . What is everyone using these days to automated the social bookmarking of their backlinks and citations?

Much Appreciated

George

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