In-Depth with Local SEO
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Basic-level presentation on Local SEO for O'Reilly Where Conference April 4th, 2012 by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz
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In-Depth with Local SEO
- 1. In-Depth with Local SEO O’Reilly Where, April 4th, 2012 Rand Fishkin | CEO http://bit.ly/mozlocalseo2012
- 2. What is “Local” SEO
- 5. Local SEO
- 6. Location Often Impacts Results
- 7. Specific Location (which Google often auto-detects) Location- Biased Results
- 8. Local SEO Defined This broad definition doesn’t restrict Local SEO to Google + Bing or to only maps-style queries. The practice of improving the quantity and quality of traffic from search queries with a geographic intent.
- 9. The Local SEO Process
- 10. Conduct Basic Keyword Research Via Google’s Adwords Keyword Research Tool Watch exact vs. broad carefully
- 11. Investigate the Search Results This can help inform which results to pursue with which tactics. Note where & how maps results vs. standard results appear
- 12. Evaluate Keyword Competition This result set is clearly very non-competitive. There’s few reviews or even serious data for most of the listings.
- 13. Evaluate Keyword Competition This set is the opposite. Everyone listed has hundreds of reviews and tons of information; very competitive to rank here.
- 14. Make Smart Keyword Targeting Choices Those terms & phrases that bring you high quality customers but aren’t tremendously competitive will be the best place to start. Over time, you can and should pursue more challenging terms. High Volume (many searches/month) Low Competition (weak sites/pages in the top 10) High Value (large % of visitors convert) Ideal Keywords!
- 15. Website & Content Planning Homepage Recipes Page Menu/Cuisine Page In planning the website, you need to determine which pages have been built and need to target keywords and which still need to be created to target new terms/phrases
- 16. Be Creative with Content Whenever Possible http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker
- 17. Claim/Clean Structured Citations List of Local Directories: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/10322/The-Ultimate-List-50-Local-Business-Directories.aspx
- 18. Create/Clean Unstructured Citations Example Search Query Structure: http://www.google.com/search?q=“business+name”+”city”-zipcode These listings don’t include the correct phone number and should be updated
- 19. Best Practices for Local SEO
- 20. Accurate Data Across Every Listing Source Test Yelp, OpenTable, Amber’s website, Google Local, etc. should all have exactly the same details.
- 21. Strategic Selection of Listing Categories Great tool to help: http://blumenthals.com/index.php?Google_LBC_Categories. And an excellent blog post on the topic: http://www.visonthenet.com/selecting-the-most-profitable-categories-for-your-local-business-listing-1785.html
- 22. Completeness & Quality of Listings For each listing, it pays to manually provide the maximum amount of depth + detail possible.
- 23. Connection of Listings, Social Profiles & Website Twitter, Facebook, Google+, FourSquare, CitySearch, Google Local, Yelp, UrbanSpoon and LinkedIn should all be claimed (at least). Smart move from Amber – linking to their social profiles and including their address info on those pages, too!
- 24. Focus on Citation & Recommendation Growth PRO Tip: Use searches like this on your competition to find all the places you can potentially get a citation. 136K results! Excellent work.
- 25. Be Careful About Manipulating Reviews Google, Yelp and all the major providers work hard to prevent manipulative/spammy reviews from showing up in the results.
- 26. Helpful Tools for Local SEO
- 27. Google AdWords Keyword Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- 29. Google Insights Geo Drill-Down http://www.google.com/insights/search
- 31. Yext Local Search Scorecard http://www.yext.com/diagnostic.html
- 33. Whitespark Local Citation Tool http://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder
- 35. Google Places Help Forum http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/business
- 36. Local Search Ranking Factors http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml
- 37. Local SEO Ranking Correlations http://bizible.com/local-search-ranking-factors/google-places-optimization
- 40. David Mihm’s Local SEO Blog http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/
- 41. SearchEngineLand’s Local SEO Column http://searchengineland.com/library/local-search/
- 42. Rand Fishkin | CEO http://bit.ly/mozlocalseo2012 @randfish www.seomoz.org/blog rand@seomoz.org