A local business like yours needs a strong local search presence.
It is estimated that 25% of search traffic is local (here and here). That is, local people looking for local business.
You can take a big, relatively quick, and painless first step to boosting your ranking with some strategic local optimizations.
You can do this by publishing your business' profile to key directories and making sure your site content accurately and prominently displays your contact information.
- Create a strong business profile
- Publish your profile to local directories
- Update your website with your profile information, ensuring that search engines can crawl and index it
- Optimize your site for (local) search
You can use our free search tool to check how well your site is optimized and compare yourself to competitors.
We also have a variety of packages available to help you out if having someone else do the work is up your alley. While you wind down this year, let us get your rankings geared up for next year. No worries. No headache. You will come back in 2015 to a noticeable difference in your online presence.
Pro Tip: MOZ Local has an excellent tool you can use to check your local listing strength.
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