Notes About Business

If you want to find your businesses website or local listing at the top of the search results, it is not as hard as you might have thought. As long as your know the steps to take that matter in the eyes of the search engines. Local listings in Google can be a great traffic booster for your website. Being at the top of the search listings also ads credibility for you website. We have put together a list of the most important steps for getting listed in the local search results.

The first thing that you do deals with what we call on page factors. You want to make sure that your local phone number is listed on at least your contact page of your website. The footer of every website page is even better. Additionally, when you list your information on the contact page, use what is called the hcard format. It will help your placement. Google Hcard format to find an html generator for this. Then copy paste it into your website.

After this is done you are going to want to claim your local listing in the google local business center (www.google.com/local/add). You do this by logging on to your Google account. If you don’t have one, make one. Go to the local business center and add a local listing. Make sure that you use the keywords you are targeting in the business name. This will go a long way towards ranking. Make sure to add as many videos, pictures, and info that you possible can. Then go to yahoo and do the same. (listings.local.yahoo.com)

One of the things that you can do to get a little bit of a boost with Google ( we are not debating the ethicality of this, is to get a P.O. Box or physical address as close as possible to the what google considers the center of a city. If instead you are targeting a zipcode. Makesure to use the zipcode in your keywords, and get an address at the center of that zipcode.

make sure that you are using a local phone number for your contact info. This has a great impact on your local seo.

Next all you have to do is go out and get backlinks to your site. If you do not know how to do this, a company called orlandosearchenginemarketing.com offers a local seo optimization that includes getting backlinks. Here are some local sites to get links from:

1. Chambers of commerce

2. Local friends websites

3. Your church of temple

4. Get links for networking groups if you are a part of them, exchanging links between network groups can be a great way to build links

5. Trade organization

Make sure that you ask them to include your keywords and city name in the link to your website. This will help you push through the other local results

You can download a free Local Search Checklist by click the previous link