Simple Local Keyword Research? Local keyword research needn’t be complicated. In essence, all you are doing is finding the words and phrases people use when searching for your type of business in your area then using those words within your web content. Sounds simple enough… Ahh, but this is local search, so nothing is as […]
How to Delete Free Yell Listings
There seems to be an influx of people landing here looking for details on how to delete free Yell listings. I know from experience cleaning up citations for local listings that Yell/Hibu don’t seem to have this information available on their site – or if it is, it is so far buried that no one […]
On-Page Local SEO: 10 Tips To Improve Your Local SEO [Infographic]
Local SEO Woes “I’m doing all this stuff and still can’t be found online, even for my business name!” Sound familiar? I hear it a lot from small business owners who are frantically Tweeting or Facebooking and generally chasing their own tail. When you look at their website you’ll often find one of two things: […]
Facebook Graph Search – Creepy Search Has Begun!
I’ve probably mentioned before that I don’t do social search. It irritates me, I want new results not what my connections share, like or circle etc. So, when Facebook announced Graph Search on a personal level I was pretty ambivalent. Graph Search definitely falls into the “whatever” category for me. There is a but… I […]
Understanding Google Local Search Results (or Where Have My Local Rankings Gone?!)
One of the good things about Google local search was until earlier this year you could have a page 1 listing without a local business website using Google Places. As with everything Google, their algorithms change and search moves on. Google Places – your local business page, traditionally pulled the map into the search results […]
A Week in Google – 6th May 2012
The weeks are flying by… here’s a quick round up of what’s caught my eye in Google this week. Google Search Updates Google announced 53 search updates throughout April. Pandas and Penguins aside, there’s a few other interesting changes: Improvements to local navigational searches. [launch codename “onebar-l”] For searches that include location terms, e.g. [dunston […]
This Week In Google – 22nd April 2012
Google Places Local Search Bug Earlier in the week, it became apparent that all was not well with local search. Searching for any local business – in the example below it’s Plumbers Widnes, everything looks fine. Until you click the “see more results” link. You’re redirected to a local search results page as expected, but […]