The podcast discusses the importance of Local SEO in driving traffic to businesses, the new dashboard for managing business profiles and Q&A, measuring the results of local SEO efforts, and the significance of accurate business information on websites and directories.
Local SEO is crucial for businesses with physical locations or service area businesses that meet customers in specific geographical areas.
To achieve local SEO success, businesses need to focus on map app visibility, organic visibility, and optimizing Google business profiles.
Deep dives
Importance of Local SEO
Local search engine optimization (SEO) is often overlooked by businesses but can drive significant traffic, especially for those with brick-and-mortar locations. Local SEO comes into play when there is local intent behind a search, which is becoming more prevalent with the rise of mobile usage. Google serves local results in three main ways: through organic links, the three-pack, and the local finder. Local SEO is crucial for businesses with physical locations or service area businesses that meet customers in specific geographical areas.
Building Blocks for Local SEO Success
To achieve local SEO success, it is essential to focus on both map app visibility and organic visibility. This requires implementing general SEO best practices and adding an extra layer of local optimization. Important factors include having a crawlable and indexed website, creating high-quality content, optimizing on-page elements, ensuring fast site speed, earning strong backlinks, and establishing authority and trust factors. Additionally, setting up and optimizing Google business profiles is crucial, including selecting the most important primary category, providing accurate information, and enriching the profile with relevant content.
Monitoring and Measuring Local SEO
Monitoring and measuring the impact of local SEO efforts is crucial to understand the effectiveness of strategies. Google business profile insights offer valuable data on metrics like click-to-call, website clicks, and driving directions, providing insights into customer intent and engagement. This data can be extracted using connectors like JETTO for single location businesses or paid versions for multi-location reporting. Combining this data with Google Analytics allows businesses to track website traffic and conversions coming from their Google business profiles. Additionally, businesses should not overlook other platforms like Bing Places and Apple Maps, which can contribute to local visibility and convert to revenue.
Search Engine Optimisation is a huge part of digital marketing, and today we are taking a deeper dive into the world of Local SEO; an SEO strategy that optimises your online presence to increase local traffic, visibility and brand awareness. Any business with a physical location or that serves a geographical area can benefit from local SEO. Have you ever searched for 'restaurants near me' to try and find places to eat in your local area? Local SEO is what will help you appear in these search results, so it's important to understand what it is and what it entails. In this episode, Ciaran is joined by local SEO expert Claire Carlile from Brightlocal, a SEO platform full of local marketing tools to help you you rank higher, grow your reputation and build citations. Claire has been working with local businesses for over 20 years and today, she helps guide us through the different techniques for mastering the local search results. Show notes - If you have any feedback on the show, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please
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