As you may be well aware the internet has certainly changed the world. Instead of people racing to deliver fliers in their neighborhoods, they’re now racing to get the top spot on the search results list on an internet search engine results list. Although it’s a virtual world, one needs to remember that it’s the biggest communication, entertainment and informational medium that exists. Therefore, SEO tips how to make your local business rank higher on Google without hassle are some great things to be aware of.
Businesses that have a physical location have it tough. In this economy, it’s especially hard to keep doors open. A large part of this is due to publicity. The more people are exposed, the more customers that will have. When it comes right down to it, the truth is that the internet has taken the place of physical advertisements. Use this to an advantage.
First, think of yellow pages. You remember those. They came to houses in plastic bags and listed all of the local businesses. They still exist, just not in that exact format. They have moved to the worldwide web. Simply register with the local yellow pages directory and become listed there. It’s a good way to get exposure because people can access it instantly.
Second of all, Search Engine Optimization is a great way to upgrade any site. It basically optimizes the site by tweaking keywords and changing content so that it will rank highers in any search results list, especially Google, which is the leading search engine, and therefore make it more likely for you to accumulate internet traffic.
Third, Keywords are extremely important. They basically are the key to getting hits online. For example, when you search for something online, while you’re typing, suggestions come up, basically offering up possible locations for your access. When you see a search results list, the actual sites are littered with bold words, which are the keywords. Use these liberally, but not so much that you’re marked as spam.
Fourth, Any tourists will often visit a city’s website before they actually go visit. Put up ads here, because you’ll find that it’s a great way to get exposure. Make sure the location is very clear and you have some nice images of the physical location up and running. It’s easy and you’ll find that you will get a lot of traffic that way.
In short, there’s so many opportunities to choose from. All you need is a little knowledge of computer workings and patience, and you’ll eventually get there in no time. Rule the internet today.
Thank You,
Kathy Baka is a Small Business Marketing Consultant based in Virginia providing marketing services worldwide. For a free marketing consultation on expanding your company’s market go to Winchester Marketing Group.
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Great tips. Directly optimizing your local business listing is a necessary step to get your listing to rank in Google.
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Twitter: sem_zoom
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Great advice Kathy. I think local business should try and reward their customers for reviews with discounts and vouchers. This in turn will lead to more business via increased search engine rankings.
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Twitter: itechcrazyy
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Nice post kathybaka ..But can you elaborate a bit more? Hope you will post more information about this soon
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I would like to add another tip to it an SEO algorithm follows the first link it finds, and if there are more than one link on one page it will crawl only one link per page, and you should paste the text link first and picture link after text, because a text link is better than 1000 picture links.
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This describes that SEO is very important to boost your Local business for a better rank. is it that important?
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Sometimes we put all our efforts to get our keywords ranked on top of the SERP, but still we are unable to get benefit. The reason is lack of marketing strategy. If we don’t know who are the potential customers, then we will not be target our product or services to them.
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Be sure to include a simple description of what your business does, what your hours are, where you are located or what area you serve if you do not have a physical storefront. “You want to be as detailed as possible when filling out your Google Places listing. The more data you include, the more you’ll increase your relevancy in Google’s algorithms.
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Twitter: Jeff_Bronson
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Using Google Places can really help for local businesses, to get found. The algorithm keeps changing, and social signals are even more important. Setting up places, along with a plus page and content strategy with specifically locally based keywords and services is the way to go.
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Solicit positive reviews from your customers. Customer reviews of your business are also important to Google’s search results.
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Twitter: adam_gaskell
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This is a great tip. Forget the phone book. If you own a local business and you are looking for new customers, it’s all about Google.
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Twitter: nextiva
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Being an internet based business, we have found that SEO gives our company the biggest return on income or investment. Although we do not have a store front, we see that seo and search engine results pages or high serps have a direct correlation to the income of our business.a
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Simple tips but VERY effective. Nice share.
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Local SEO is becoming one of the most important aspects of search engine optimization these days. One of the vital part of local SEO is, traffic through local seo is more targeted hence it is more beneficial for your business. I would like to get more updates from your blog in future also.
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Search Engine Optimization is the best choice for anybody interested in making their site successful. Because a site that you own is redirecting people to an actual physical location, you need to make it easy, accessible and optimized. On other words, you are going to be using techniques to create content better, and more likely to show up on a search results list.
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If your website is optimized for your local geographical area, you’re more likely to attract local traffic.
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Add content to your site to include important keywords that you would expect people to search for. Try to use words that are easily understood by less educated visitors, but don’t dumb down the content too much. You want your target audience to feel comfortable with the information, especially if your business involves something highly technical.
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kathybaka Reply:
March 16th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for your comment!! much appreciated!
Kathy
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Twitter: skreative
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Google also seems to have put focus on internal SEO factors now. External SEO is always there but we have seen “experts” slowly degrading the value of internal links structure, canonical tags, robots.txt etc.
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you’re right, keeping doors open make another door. more highways will bring more visitors.
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Thanks for this post, it will be a big help to my business.
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How true all this is. As a Local Business you need to be on the net, but that’s not enough, you need to SEO your site to get high rankings, so all the tips you have on here are a great help to anyone who’s looking to optimize there site
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Popularity is one of the important parts of business because it will really help your business in a different level. I like your writing about this because it could really help people to improve their business. Of course Search Engine Optimization has really a big role to help your site to be popular. By the way, thanks for these great tips.
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It’s like you’re on a mission to save me time and money!)
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Twitter: KJoseph45
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I like the analogy about keywords that choosing the right keyword is like choosing the location to setup shop.
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Great tips you got here Kathy. Thanks for sharing.
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Twitter: domedlabels
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Great tips once again Kathy, I particularly like the last one, its very important for local online businesses to be listed in local business directories and local city websites. Google is putting a lot of emphasis on local search and this would certainly help small businesses.
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Nice tips but what I think is:
Seo is not very important anymore(although it is not dead yet) with after the latest update from Google in algorithm. Google is now smart enough to judge your content both syntactically and semantically. You cannot dodge him. Your first priority in these days should be write for people not for search engines to get long term benefits…
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Twitter: CopywritingServices
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I fully agree with your all points, i had read somewhere that now the content is king in seo. I know that patience is very important to get good results but do you know any way to get fast rankings??
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I think local customer reviews and citations have great importance in improving local business rank higher in Google.All steps are really very helpful and they can help a lot to any webmaster to increase local business rank in Google.
Many Thanks!
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i do agree with your all of your post ,because seo is very important to improve your business sales and deciding the best keywords play a very important role to improve your rank in search engines.
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Twitter: pctips4all
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I just heard from a book by Jim Cockrum 101 Free Marketing Tips that using Google Places is a great way to rank up the scale with Google. Would you agree?
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These times it is essential that you aim for local search if you want your business to succeed. A lot of people are using Google whenever they need something, whether it is just within their neighborhood or country. So the way to go is to make sure that your website is showing for all the local search that relevant to your business. Or else you are missing a big chunk from all of these prospects.
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Great thanks for sharing! I have been doing a little SEO on the side and in a few months I’ve observed that it has helped my business become popular thus, giving me more sales than before without it.
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Link Building is the only strong and legit method to bring your website ranking upward. But after google Pp updates its better to slow down your ninja techniques and bulk link methods in a way it will penalize your site, and most important don/t do spamming. Every one hates it.
Any way i read another very interesting and very informative article by you Kathy . Thanks alot for this once again.
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