Local SEO
Local SEO, or local search engine optimization, is the process of optimizing your online presence to attract more business from relevant local searches. These are searches performed on Google and other search engines by users looking for products, services, or businesses near them. Whether it’s coffee shop near me or plumber in [your city], these local marketing strategies ensure your business shows up when and where it matters most.
Unlike broader SEO strategies that target national or global rankings, local SEO focuses on visibility within a specific geographic area. This involves optimizing your Google Business Profile, building local citations, gathering reviews, and ensuring your website contains accurate location-based information. Local SEO can be a crucial driver of foot traffic, phone calls, and online leads for brick-and-mortar businesses and service providers alike.
Looking to sharpen your local SEO strategy? Explore the latest articles below for actionable tips, expert insights, and updates on what’s working now in local search.
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Marketing & Sales Videos
SEO Buddy: Your SEO Checklist And Guides To Increasing Your Organic Ranking Visibility
The SEO Checklist by SEO Buddy is your roadmap to every important SEO action you need to take to optimize your website and get more organic traffic. This is a comprehensive package, unlike anything I’ve seen online, incredibly helpful to the average business to help them continuously optimize their sites and maximize their visibility on search. The SEO Checklist Includes…
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Advertising Technology
Local Marketing Strategies for Multi-Location Businesses
Operating a successful multi-location business is easy… but only when you have the right local marketing strategy! Today, businesses and brands have an opportunity to expand their reach beyond local customers thanks to digitalization. If you are a brand owner or a business owner in the United States (or any other country) with the right strategy you can pitch your…
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Marketing Tools
How to Check Your Local Directory Listings
Local directories can be both a blessing and a curse to businesses. There are three key reasons to pay attention to local directories: SERP Map Visibility – companies don’t often realize that having a business and a website doesn’t necessarily make you visible in search engine result pages. Your business must be listed on Google Business to get visibility in…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
UX Design and SEO: How these Two Website Elements can Work together to your Advantage
Over time, the expectations for websites have evolved. These expectations set the standards for how to craft the user experience that a site has to offer. With search engines’ desire to provide the most relevant and most satisfactory results to searches, some ranking factors are taken into consideration. One of the most important nowadays is user experience (and various site…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
A Tiny Bit of Research Can Dramatically Impact Social Shares and Drive Sales
While many small businesses are abandoning Facebook, I’m always intrigued when I see something unexpected happen there for a client. Believe me, unless they’re paying to promote posts… I don’t set expectations too high. One of my clients is a family-run roofing company that serves central Indiana. They’ve been here for decades and have an incredible reputation. Recently, a hail…
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Content Marketing
4 Essential Strategies For Your Multi-Location Business Online
It’s not a surprising statistic, but it it’s still quite staggering – over half of all in-store sales were influenced by digital last year in their latest infographic on marketing your multi-location business online. MDG researched and identified four essential digital marketing tactics that every multi-location business should be deploying that incorporate search, platform, content, and device trends. Search: Optimize…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Mia: Local Business Reviews, Loyalty, and CRM
Mia, from Signpost, scans data on millions of consumers to find new opportunities to send the right messages at the right time. This AI-based technology creates emails and texts that your customers respond to, increasing your sales by 10% and upping your review rating by nearly two stars on average. Mia reaches out to customers to see if they’d recommend…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
All the Details You Need to Rank with Local SEO Marketing
We’ve really been having some fun with a local home service company here in Indianapolis and working on their inbound marketing efforts. Most of our experience to date has been working with enterprise clients who also hoped to rank regionally and we unlocked some great strategies for them. This specific client isn’t in any other city, though, and has a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Digital Marketing and SEO for Bands and Musicians
Over the years, I’ve become increasingly a fan of live, obscure, and local bands. I enjoy having a drink with the band to get to know them. I appreciate the local music experience much more than some bands I can barely see from the nosebleed seats at the local stadium or amphitheater. If you want to be found locally, though,…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to do Effective Local SEO on a Budget
Over time, SEO has become more challenging and more rigorous, but should that necessarily mean more expensive? Not all companies that need SEO services are Internet-based or IT-related. The majority are small, local businesses that serve a specific geographic area. These folks need local SEO rather than traditional, national SEO. Local businesses and individuals — dentists, plumbers, apparel stores, electronic…