Local Search Engine Optimization (local SEO) is a process of improving discoverability and visibility of web pages at a town, city or regional level, within location-based search functions (e.g. "results near me").
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Google local search rankings is it possible without the use of citations
I have a client that is wanting a website design for his self-run business... Basically he is a self employed plumber so his home address is not visitable by the public, however the problem here is ...
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SEO for multiple counties and cities [duplicate]
I wanted to know the best practices for improving our SEO for service areas. We have a central office but cover all of Northern Virginia for our Web Design services and are currently only ranking in ...
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How to tell search engines location of business? [duplicate]
Is there some way to tell search engines where a particular business is? Assume the business is something that is only accessible to customers locally (e.g. a nail salon). Is there a way to say that ...
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How to get keyword ranked and traffic from a specific region?
I am working on a site that has good traffic and ranking form many countries. Our website is basically about Japanese used cars exporters and now we want to become more famous in Africa regions such ...
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is it good to translate my competitor website's post?
my website Alxa rank into my own country is 24000 and my competitor website is 34. me and my competitor both translate the foreign post. i really don't know what kind of post should i have to ...
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Do long geographic lists “we cover these towns” work or are they penalised by Google?
Some small business type websites list their geographic areas covered, often crudely listing 30 or 40 towns, and then a big list of postcode areas.
Here's an example for skip hire:
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How to get ranked for local search?
How to do effective search engine optimization of a web site which needs only local visitors (e.g. from 100 mile radius of a particular city) but not global visitors?
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SEO and location targeting , sub-domain or sub-directory? [duplicate]
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Subdomain versus subdirectory
With regards to say a national service that has locations based in 10 cities. Each city needs to have individual content, such as blogs, ...
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Percentage of users that get to business website by searching vs typing business url into address bar
My friend's company(lets call it SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack. SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney is primarily an offline, real-world company that ...
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How do click throughs from google places show up in analytics
We've just implemented google places for our business are getting a few hits through, i know that places has there own sort of mini analytics, but they are realy just a hybrid impressions, ctr chart.
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What are the best practices for Nationalized SEO? [closed]
I am working on Internet marketing for one of the Website designing & development company in India which is located in Mumbai. So the website is performing quite well in local search places or up ...
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Using hreflang to specify a catchall language
We have a site primarily targeted at the UK market, and are adding a US-market alternative. As per Google's recommendations:
To indicate to Google that you want the German version of the page to
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How to use semantic markup and Google Places to assist in local search SEO?
In this article, adding additional localized markup is supposed to help your site's SEO.
ie.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Organization">
<span ...
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Duplicate content in Top Level Domain and country specific website
I have myproduct.com which is my master product page.
For UK I also own myproduct.co.uk which is a copy of myproduct.com with some localized content: landing page, promotions, prices, and specific ...
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Country specific content vs global content
I have a global product presentation website myproduct.com
For certain countries I also own the country domain: myproduct.co.uk, myproduct.com.au, myproduct.es, myproduct.de, etc.
The presentation ...
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Improve my website visitor by facebook? [closed]
i have a face book page with more than 5000 friends. I made a website(2 month ago). Is it useful for my site rank and does it increase my websites visitor?. Can i copy my web site post on my face book ...
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SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions
I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location.
What I'm doing is to get information from the IP ...
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My Website title changes by itself in Google [duplicate]
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Title tag different from title appearing in Google?
I am doing seo on my friends site and each page has its own metas it did change to new ones then somehow google is ...
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Is it better to have multiple domains for cities or one single TLD?
I make websites for small businesses, and for some reason business owners love to have several domains with the same website but the TLD containing the city name.
For example:
1. smallbizname.com
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How to handle possible duplicate content across multiple sites?
Let's say I have two sites that cover the same vertical/topic. one in the USA and one in Canada. Both sites have local-related content, which is obviously unique by location. However they will share ...
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Local Business Listing Dashboard [closed]
I operate a website for a West Australian company, and the company has listings in local business directory websites. Currently we are listed in:
www.HotFrog.com.au
www.Google.com/Places
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google+ page and google+ local page for a business cound as duplicate listings ?
ive got a google+ page for a business, this business also have a google+ local page (google places) page, i was wandering if this was hindering our local seo efforts by giving us duplicate listings ?
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Assign subdomains to separate ports on web server
I have set up an Abyss web server as a little experiment, and I want to know if it is possible to assign subdomains to different ports on the machine the web server is running on.
I have a couple web ...
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Do I need to physically host my website in separate countries for SEO?
I run an ecommerce store that is hosted in Ireland, and ranks ok with google.ie
The market for this comapny is the Republic of Ireland and the UK.
Is it beneficial for me to have a UK hosted ...
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Google Places seo? [duplicate]
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What determines the order of results for Google Places?
Im familiar with seo and getting higher google listings but for allot of services google has recently been making ...
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Pointing .com and .ca domain names [duplicate]
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Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I have a .com and .ca domain extensions for my business.
I have heard that it's better to have .ca for SEO as my business ...
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when optimising for a “location” based term, are links from the countries tld worth more?
When optimizing for a term such as "bike shop london", do links from .co.uk and .com.uk domains carry more weight? ie. Would a link from a identical in every aspect apart from TLD be worth less in ...
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SEO: make the home page location specific or add a new page for location?
My homepage is coming up on the first page in Google search, main keyword is "balloon decorations".
We provide local service in several cities, but homepage does not mention the location, visitor has ...
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How do you feed reviews to Google places page for businesses? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to provide Google reviews information?
Check out this google places page as an example:
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What process do you use to determine the “why” of web searchers goal for your “transactional keywords”?
SEO starts with the intentions of the person using the search engine.
What ever the web searcher intended to gain from typing their search keyword/phrase into google will help you understand what ...
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What Does Local SEO Consist of and How Does it Differ From Website SEO? [duplicate]
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Local SEO Strategies
What does most local SEO services consist of? So far here's what I got:
Add company to Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local and a bunch of
other ...
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Google position changing on different computers
Afternoon all
Just put my new site live last Saturday and I have found it has completely different search rankings when I’m in two different locations (very similar distance apart).
I get position 3 ...
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301 Redirects for regional variants of a homepage
I am planning on implementing a website which has regional homepage variants. For Example:
mycompany.com/europe
mycompany.com/us
The rest of the site is region agnostic and content will continue ...
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Site experiencing low traffic volume between 8AM and 4PM BST
There may be no definitive answer to this question but I thought peer review of the problem might stimulate some ideas on the topic.
We have a boutique sales site that is experiencing low volumes of ...
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How can I optimize a business site to rank well in local search for multiple cities?
I live in an area where there are two cities of 60-90k people adjacent to each other. Due to Google's apparent emphasis on physical location of a business when it comes to SERPs for local queries, it ...
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SEO tools to determine audience size for search phrases
Are there any tools available that can indicate the search volume for a given set of phrases/keywords for a given location? For example, if I had a local pizza website that served only Manhattan and ...
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Do premium domain names help us with other languages too?
It's commonly known that premium domains with one or two relevant keywords may help us improve our rankings in SERPS.
But would it be possible that an english premium domain, for example gold.com ...
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SEO for Google Maps
Can't make sense out of the way Google Maps position their results.
Here is my places page, that I'm trying to optimize for the "sprinkler hollywood florida" keywords and appears at the end of 3rd ...
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Backlink anchor text and Local SEO
If I have a business in, say Tampa Florida, and we offer irrigation services, and I want to create some backlinks for a SEO campaign, should I use "Tampa Florida Irrigation Services" as my anchor ...
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SEO for Country & Language Specific content
Currently I am creating a website which has a common topic for an article, but it's going to be different content for each country, and also, each of that content will be provided in several ...
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Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required
This is kind of a newbie question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before.
Scenario:
We are wanting to ...
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“Search Friendly” domain names
We bought a few search friendly domain names for the CPA site that I manage. Each of the domains we bought has the name of a nearby city and the word cpa in front of, or behind the city name.
The ...
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Using SEO to hide a website in a specific location?
A friend of mine wants to build a website, but doesn't want people in the West Midlands area of the UK to be able to see it, but wants areas outside of the West Midlands to be able to see it.
Is this ...
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SEO consequences for merging country sites in a .com
I am in the process of refactoring a number of rental portals I've built for a company with locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Instead of the current setting of each ...
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Local SEO Strategies
What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?
