Last year, 57% of consumers purchased from a local business for the first time because they offered pandemic-friendly services. During lockdowns, people weren’t finding out about these businesses by visiting in person or word of mouth. They used local search to get curbside pickup and delivery at a time when they needed it the most. […]
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SEO for a Local Target Audience
Pursuing a local target audience will get you the business you want with the lowest investment of time or money. A local SEO strategy, by default, focuses on a target audience. The audience may or may not be bound by geography. In any cases, your search engine optimization efforts should be directed at reaching out […]
Local SEO: How to Get the Most Out of Your Agency
Local SEO works best when a business and SEO agency work together. Many local businesses don’t bother with search engine optimization (SEO). They feel it’s too expensive, they don’t know how it works, and besides, they’re small, they don’t need to show up everywhere, just their town and/or areas in their proximity. In their case, […]
Local SEO Tasks That Are Ongoing Processes
We’ve been in the Search Engine Optimization business for several years now. Occasionally, we get a call from a SEO client we helped several years ago. The call goes something like “Our rank on the search page has dropped. Can you do a couple things to get it back up?” Well, yes, we could but […]
Want to Grab a Local Audience? Do These 6 Things
If your business relies on your local market, then knowing how to get your brand out there in front of those potential customers makes a whole lot of sense. However, you should avoid using the same marketing principles as you would do online or over a larger area as this is more specific in nature. […]
Meta Tags for Local SEO: The Essential Guide
Meta tags are invisible tags that search engines use to determine the meaning of a web page. Meta tags have significant influence on SEO, especially local SEO. This is due in part to the indifference many local web designers have towards meta tags. They are crucial to validating the relevance of title, keywords, and the […]
Local SEO: On-Site or Off-Site SEO?
Off-site SEO is difficult but will pay dividends down the road. More than 8 out of 10 consumers search for businesses using search engines. If you run a local business, then you don’t have an option but to focus on SEO—both on-site and offsite. Here’s a nice way to understand what either SEO does. On-site […]
Do Local Businesses Still Need a Website?
Does your website still serve a purpose? Google’s primary objective is to answer people’s questions as quickly and as accurately as possible. Years ago, if you searched for a product or service, you would have been required to click a link to another website from the search page. This is no longer true. If you […]
5 Minute Local SEO Strategies
SEO is often regarded as a mysterious dark art. Constantly evolving it can be confusing if not downright off-putting to your average small business owner. Local SEO has many similarities to traditional SEO, but thanks to the fact that you are competing in your local area, not against the world, it’s often possible to achieve results far […]
Local SEO and SEO Are Not the Same
Local SEO and SEO are not the same This is the only local SEO guide that you will need to crack the local SEO code. It’s not a demanding thing to do. Just check all the boxes in this checklist and you will see the positive difference it makes to your business. Local SEO targets […]
