small business seo

13 years ago

There are about 65-70 decent local directories you can use. I would hit all of them. Make sure there is an associated Google+ for Business page and that the profile is 100% complete. After that, start looking for local sites in the town that can potentially link to you.

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AlphaWarrior

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

There are about 65-70 decent local directories you can use. I would hit all of them. Make sure there is an associated Google+ for Business page and that the profile is 100% complete. After that, start looking for local sites in the town that can potentially link to you.

Do you have a list of these directories?

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MelanieandMiles

13 years ago

Content, content, content!

We default to WordPress for the cms and there are many ways to keep creating/adding relevant kw+location phrases... You are only limited by your creativity. Here are a couple relevant examples from a couple of our SEO clients.

We have a home builder client and they create a post that details every job they complete. they get many city and neighborhood phrases on page from those posts.

Another client in the home healthcare niche with offices in several states consistently posts about the different challenges that elderly face living on their own in these areas, often talking about the different seasons, effects of the local weather on their health, getting around the city safely, etc.

Both clients are having great success ranking for location+service phrases

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Charanjit

13 years ago

Ranking for local searches is pretty easy. Look for forums that are related to that area, become active in the forum (post use full information) have your client details in the signature. This will do two things - first improve serps , second lead to direct leads.

second - find industry related forums and repeat.

third - normal off page seo (social media)

pinntrest
stumble upon
facebook
twitter
google plus

fourth - back linking

2.0 sites
article marketing
pdf sharing / file sharing sites
video marketing
podcast
power point slide sharing
guest posts

as you can see their is a lot of options.

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seoace

13 years ago

That should be pretty easy with some tiered linking.

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wpseoguy

13 years ago

It's a little hard at first time to make SEO by your-self but definetly worth it. You need some good content and then build your brand (brand awareness) on social media. I use a seo plugin, which help me a lot. It's about Squirrly SEO.

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My Space Suit Split

13 years ago

Thank you for all your advice. I will have to look for local forums, I didn't think of that

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racksjackson

13 years ago

The only way to get good rankings for them is from local listing. Do listings in local directories and make those profile strong.

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My Space Suit Split 13 years ago

Originally Posted by racksjackson

The only way to get good rankings for them is from local listing. Do listings in local directories and make those profile strong.

what do you mean by making the profile strong?
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angshuy2k

13 years ago

Originally Posted by My Space Suit Split

I have redesigned a website for a small local business. I want to rank for the "specific keywords" + town.
Most of this businesses competition is not ranking well, the only problem is the other things that rank are the yellow pages and some directories. I have submitted to local directories(with pr of 2-4) to build some quality backlinks.
does anyone have any other ideas for seo?

You may probably want to try some offline marketing for your local business as you have said it is local.

Ranking will automatically follow if you have quality traffic coming in as well as you have relevant content as well as unique content for your business.

Another thing to look for is slow and stedy linking to relevant sites as well as local directories.

Finally, use of of your investment on offline marketing would surely boost the business and your website reputation and to do that you want to make sure your visitors are engaging in your website and staying in your website for some time.

Hope this might help you, if you can think out side the box to drive traffic and move business forward.

Kind regards,
Swrajit

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My Space Suit Split

13 years ago

Originally Posted by angshuy2k

You may probably want to try some offline marketing for your local business as you have said it is local.

Ranking will automatically follow if you have quality traffic coming in as well as you have relevant content as well as unique content for your business.

Another thing to look for is slow and stedy linking to relevant sites as well as local directories.

Finally, use of of your investment on offline marketing would surely boost the business and your website reputation and to do that you want to make sure your visitors are engaging in your website and staying in your website for some time.

Hope this might help you, if you can think out side the box to drive traffic and move business forward.

Kind regards,
Swrajit

To be honest I don't really care how long they stay on the website I just want it to come when people search the "product/service of the business" + "town/area". So then people know where to go to buy the product or service they are looking for. The plan is so people go on there and then call or email to find out more.

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John Romaine

13 years ago

Originally Posted by My Space Suit Split

does anyone have any other ideas for seo?

Onsite content.

Originally Posted by MelanieandMiles

Content, content, content!

We default to WordPress for the cms and there are many ways to keep creating/adding relevant kw+location phrases... You are only limited by your creativity. Here are a couple relevant examples from a couple of our SEO clients.

We have a home builder client and they create a post that details every job they complete. they get many city and neighborhood phrases on page from those posts.

Another client in the home healthcare niche with offices in several states consistently posts about the different challenges that elderly face living on their own in these areas, often talking about the different seasons, effects of the local weather on their health, getting around the city safely, etc.

Both clients are having great success ranking for location+service phrases

This is the best advice (and the only advice) you need to make this work.

Originally Posted by Charanjit

Ranking for local searches is pretty easy. Look for forums that are related to that area, become active in the forum (post use full information) have your client details in the signature. This will do two things - first improve serps , second lead to direct leads.

second - find industry related forums and repeat.

third - normal off page seo (social media)

pinntrest
stumble upon
facebook
twitter
google plus

fourth - back linking

2.0 sites
article marketing
pdf sharing / file sharing sites
video marketing
podcast
power point slide sharing
guest posts

as you can see their is a lot of options.

Complete waste of time. You can make this work, simply by focusing on your own site. Not dicking around with external properties all over the place.

Originally Posted by seoace

That should be pretty easy with some tiered linking.

High quality content web 2.0s - Tier 1
Blog comments - Tier 2

More bad advice.

Originally Posted by My Space Suit Split

Thank you for all your advice. I will have to look for local forums, I didn't think of that

Waste of time.

Originally Posted by My Space Suit Split

what do you mean by making the profile strong?

He's obviously just parroting what's been said elsewhere. Ignore it.

Originally Posted by My Space Suit Split

To be honest I don't really care how long they stay on the website

Well you should.

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SunilNagar

13 years ago

Check out this very informative post for local SEO.
13 Semantic Markup Tips For 2013: A Local SEO Checklist

Source :Google search

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