Google Ad Innovations: AdWords Call Metrics

It’s more simple to get detailed call reports with Adwords. For more details check this link: http://www.google.com/ads/innovations

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Why Local SEO is Important for Local Business?

Local SEO is a important part of local business marketing. Businesses need to use / implement local SEO strategies to improve their business conversions. This can be simply achieved by hiring a local SEO experts who will put your local business at local business directories and adopt optimization process that can bring business listing in Google Places or achieving higher local keyword rankings or increasing website visibility locally. If a Local SEO company is able to achieve all of the above then it’s sure local business starts getting number of leads or conversions.

Whether you’re a large or a small company it’s sure local SEO efforts can pay off. More and more business owners always prefer to achieve organic rankings but it’s not so easy to achieve it as it solely depends on competition and efforts we put forward to achieve it. Local SEO is comparatively easy and it’s also easy to achieve local keyword rankings if compared with organic keyword rankings.

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Google Adwords – Local Online Advertising

Create ads using Google AdWords Express and advertise your local business on Google. It’s easy to create a new ad you can find more details on http://www.google.com/awexpress

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Local SEO Overview

Local SEO is all about promoting websites locally; it may be organic rankings or using Google Places, Yahoo Map and Bing Map. This type of SEO is best suited for businesses doing business locally. A combination of Local SEO and organic SEO efforts works wonders for client’s site. Check different types of keyword rankings in Google:

Types of Keyword Rankings

PPC Results (Paid Searches)
PPC is a type of paid campaign where advertisers login to Google Adwords and run ads on pay per click basis. It’s very much costly if anyone chooses wrong keyword and not getting any conversions because you are paying on every click visitors making from Google searches. The CPC of many keywords may go up to $100 per click.

Google Places Local Listings
This type of listings are well known as Google places listings, not all keywords shows local business listings and competition is a bit tough as only few listings comes up in Google map listings above organic keyword rankings. Various steps are required while verifying ownership of business over Google.com as Google verify ownership using phone verification or by sending postcard on business address with 5 digit verification code.

Organic Rankings
This is one where we optimize a webpage and do off page promotions in order to improve keyword rankings of a website in search engines.

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Interesting Google Results

Quite amazed to see some results fetched when we perform a search “Add Local Listing” in Google.com out of our curiosity. The results are very much interesting, Check yourself!

  • Number 1 Rank – Google.com (along with sitelinks of http://www.google.com/placesforbusiness)
  • Number 2 Rank – Yahoo.com (listings.local.yahoo.com)
  • Number 3 Rank – AddLocalListing.com (http://www.addlocallisting.com)
  • Number 4 Rank – AddLocalListing.com (http://www.addlocallisting.com/buy-local-submissions)
  • Number 5 Rank – Bing (http://www.bing.com/businessportal)

Review Results from Google.com

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Why Local SEO Matters?

Local SEO matters a lot for businesses running business locally, it’s far more important for business owners who are planning to get maximum number of leads using search engines to increase their website visibility using local keywords. A combination of SEO, Local SEO, Off Page Promotions, Internal Blog helps a company to increase website visibility. Local SEO matters as more number of users are searching local keywords in search engines and if website starts coming higher by local keywords then business gets more visibility using search engines. Search engine starts showing local results and it’s important for local businesses to get listed, we discuss about Importance of Local SEO and related posts in past. Please feel free to check some of our most popular articles on Local SEO listed below:

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Importance of Local Keywords

Local keywords in website is very much important if you want to achieve higher keyword rankings using local keywords. But you have to remember just filling page with local keywords never works well, so use keywords smartly and increase the possibility to achieve higher keyword rankings by local keywords.

You can add local keywords in below listed places:

  • Title Tags
  • Description Tags
  • Keyword Tags
  • Quality Contents
  • Image Alt Tags
  • Footer

It’s always best to create a landing page of each city or go for wordpress blog (recommended) as it’s easy to manage things on blog due to some useful features like Tags, Categories, Pages & Posts.

Lets take an Example: If you are running an Attorney Firm in New York and can serve clients thru-out New York then it’s best to create separate pages or posts in Blog by city names and play with local keywords using above mentioned techniques. Category, Tag & Page or Post URL’s looks like following:

Page or Post URL’s

http://www.yourcompany.com/newyorkcityattorney

http://www.yourcompany.com/attorneyinnewyork

Category URL’s

http://www.yourcompany.com/category/newyorkcityattorney

http://www.yourcompany.com/category/attorneyinnewyork

Tag URL’s

http://www.yourcompany.com/tag/newyorkcityattorney

http://www.yourcompany.com/tag/attorneyinnewyork

Once blog is indexed by Google, due to quality content possibilities are there that your site starts coming in Google by some local keywords.

Note: Many other factors plays a vital role in keyword rankings so above factors must not be taken for granted and can be used after taking advice from Local SEO Expert but it’s worth to try it once. :)

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Interesting Google Map Results

While digging Google using “Local SEO” it brings below results in Google Maps:

It’s more interesting to see site hosted over YolaSite.com (seooakland.yolasite.com) redirected to (seosanfrancisco.yolasite.com)

Showing following message: “This sub domain is not in use”.

Site owner is loosing number of clients as above listing is coming in top position of Google Maps ahead of many Local SEO Gurus. :)

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Using Web 2.0 Properties in Local SEO

Title above says all, but we all know it’s quite hard to manage profiles and different web properties as our main concentration is to promote main website. Up to an extinct it’s absolutely correct but when we have to spread a word about our company product or services in that case it’s always best to use Web 2.0 Properties. Best if to use few properties in starting and then after checking results go for more number of properties.

We are using this strategy for many of our clients and till date it always works well. Using Web 2.0 properties in Local SEO helps a lot to increase visibility of your main website.

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