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Added a Service Page to Your Site? Now Do These 30 Things for It to Help Your Local SEO and Grab Customers

8Feb

By PhilNo Comments

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Added a Service Page to Your Site? Now Do These 30 Things for It to Help Your Local SEO and Grab Customers

Like my post? Please share! It’s fun to slap together a new “service” page and see fast results, because most of the time it doesn’t work out that way. More often, you’ll need to put in a little more gruntwork before that new page can help produce organic rankings, Google Maps rankings, and customers. As usual, your process counts for all the marbles. I can sum up the basic process: Make your new page hard for Google to miss, make it hard for would-be customers to dismiss, study your results from multiple angles over time, and improve the page over time. If you pull it off, you’ll create another little (or big) source of local visibility that makes you less dependent on the finicky Google Maps results, while (paradoxically) helping you perform better on the map. Exactly how do you do tha...

10 Bootstrap Ways to Grab More of Your Service Area in Local Search

20Dec

By PhilNo Comments

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10 Bootstrap Ways to Grab More of Your Service Area in Local Search

Like my post? Please share! You’re probably frustrated by the puny patch of land in which you rank for anything. How can you grab at least a little more of your service area? It takes work, but you can rank in (and get more business from) places beyond the one city or few towns where you rank today. Those gains will happen mostly in the local organic results, but most strategies can drag your Google Maps rankings along, too. Here’s a video of my talk at the recent Whitespark Local Search Summit, hosted by Darren Shaw. It’s called “10 Bootstrap Ways to Grab More of Your Service Area in Local Search,” and I hope it gives you some doable ideas for how to do exactly that. If you want a handy reference, or if you don’t need my color commentary or the Q&A at the end, here is a one-page ch...