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SEO has changed the game for many companies. Optimizing techniques enable companies to increase the quality and quantity of traffic to their site. When organizations rank higher in search engine results, they have an increased likelihood of being one of the first options consumers see in their search results. SEO enables firms to do this without breaking the bank, giving them greater reach and excellent return on investment. For many businesses, though, the global reach of search engines appears at odds with their own missions. You don't need people from Alaska landing on your website when you run a store in Florida. So how do you boost your presence in the area you serve? Or, if you are a company that serves ...

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Google loves Google

Just because you’re working from home doesn’t mean you should be wasting away. Marketing works all the time, and now is the time to double down on your efforts. Over the course of the pandemic, I'm helping you think like a marketer, offering quick fixes you can take to fuel your marketing fire. Today? Just one part of setting up Google My Business. Introduction: Google My Business Though Google My Business (GMB) had been around for a while, it never seemed to work the way Google (or users) wanted—especially during the days of Google+. In short, there was a lot of confusion over Brand Pages and Local Pages, and even more confusion how these worked with Google+ and YouTube. It was ...

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SEO Contractors Part 2

Now that the construction business is established with Google, it’s important to optimize the website so that you can further improve the likelihood of coming up in local search. What follows are some important tips forlocal SEO that go beyond GMB. Digital Marketing Tips to Improve Local SEO Increase the company’s chances to land on the search results page! There are a number of steps that can be taken to achieve this. NAPs are Important Be sure to include NAP information (name, address, phone number) and other important details in an easily crawlable HTML text format. Remember that images can’t be crawled, other than the alt text, so don’t include vital NAP information in image format; be sure it’s in text format. Carefully Place ...

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SEO Contractors Part 1

As a contractor, it’s important to consider that much of the business received will be local. Accordingly, contractors benefit when their SEO strategy has a local focus. To stand out locally or regionally, it’s important to make sure all information on Google My Business is complete; then make sure to establish a local SEO strategy on the company website and beyond. Google My Business is Key Complete the entirety of your Google My Business profile. This allows users to learn as much as possible about the business before even clicking off of Google. It’s important to double-check this information often, because Google will often prompt users to answer questions about the business and allow them to suggest edits. This means that ...

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website tips for IT companies

Your website is one of the most important marketing and business development tools you have. A majority of prospective clients will begin their hunt for IT services with a search engine, with these searches often being local in nature. The primary purpose of your website is two fold: 1) to help prospects find you; and 2) once they find you, to tell them about what your business does (services). Whether a small or large IT services provider, there are 6 essential website features that are crucial to generating more leads: Mobile-Friendly Easy to Contact Services Case Studies/Testimonials/Reviews Blog Local SEO Mobile-Friendly Potential clients are almost certainly searching for your services on a phone. More often than not, searches with local intent (e.g. local ...

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Google Local Business URLs

Google recently released a new feature that will allow searchers to take actions, like making a reservation, right from the search results page or Google Maps. If you you own or work for a website or mobile app which offers restaurant reservations, appointment booking, online ordering, or other similar services which can be directly reserved or booked online by end users then you should leverage these actionable links. Here are instructions for implementing: How to Add Local Business URLS Your Google My Business listing can include links to specific actions which will appear with your listing within Google Search and maps. You can add your own URLs for the following actions: Placing an order Booking an appointment Reserving a table Searching for ...

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Local Search with BrightLocal

Getting local search right is a concern and challenge for brands and agencies. Yet it all starts with a perceived dilemma: pay a monthly fee for the rest of your company’s life to allow another entity to manage your listings, in which cancellation results in the death of any listing created using the service, or manually enter the same data hundreds of times, having to monitor the data, and ensure it’s accurate. UPDATE (August 2017): In recent years, BrightLocal has made major improvements to their software, and up until recently has not increased prices. This blog has been updated to reflect current prices. For more information on the features, as well as the improvements they've made since this blog was ...

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