Do you ever Google your favourite brand from your desktop, tablet, or smartphone to find their location data, only to be frustrated by a closed store, a bad phone number, or inaccurate hours of operation? Customers use 5 sources when shopping locally so businesses have a 20% chance of conversion. Bad location data is a [...]
Posts Tagged: Local SEO
The Ultimate Guide to Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder
Last month, I published my very first blog post for Powered By Search that was a comprehensive look at SEOmoz’s MozBar web browser extension. Needless to say, it was very well received both within the office and among the SEO community (even SEOmoz!). One SEO expert that happened to come across it was Darren Shaw [...]
Search Tips of the Week: Quick SEO and Local Search Wins
Let’s take a look at the finest, recently released resourced in the world of online search. We take a look at the answers to 40 top-of-mind local search questions, 5 landing page conversion killers, how you can make your site more interesting and link worthy, how to score close to 100 quick SEO wins, and [...]
Search Tips of the Week: Find the Right SEO Agency + SEO Predictions for 2013
This installment of our Search Tips of the Week is here to highlight the finest, freshly released resources in the world of search. Let`s delve into Rand Fishkin’s predictions for 2013, 15 other SEO experts’ tips for this new year, how to find the right SEO agency, what an effective mobile local SEO strategy should [...]
How to Choose the Best Local SEO Keywords
Without links and keywords the internet stands still. So, for our local seo clients we are always digging into keywords and their ideal use. In a nutshell, keywords and keyword phrases are the driving force behind raising search engine ranking and drawing site traffic. Sounds easy doesn’t it? However, successful SEO marketing encompasses a great [...]
Infographic: Owning Your Local Web Presence
Local Search Expert and Unofficial Google Places employee Mike Blumenthal has put together a fantastic infographic that pulls in the intricate nature of local search optimization in a very digestible manner. Mike’s infographic also offers up an overview of online marketing, and a glossary of the different terms used in local search optimization and what [...]