Simple Local Seo Tips For Your Business

If you're up to using seo to boost traffic to business site, one of the first thing that you must consider is to improve your local search, especially if your target is mainly on local customers. Optimizing your website for local search can be a huge advantage as it can help you reach relevant target customer since most people nowadays use search engine to find business, product or services that they need.

Here's a few tips that you can use to improve your local search :

• Use GEO-Targeted-Keywords - Include location based keywords in Title tags, meta description, headings and even at the content itself which is target specific to your business reach. It is also suggested that the name of your business, address and contact numbers are visible within your website.

• Create Local Place Pages - Never forget to include and verified your business on Google My Business, Bing Places, Yahoo Local Listing. Result in this listing can show up at the top of their search engine result as well it can give strong signal to search engine about your site which may improve your local search.

• Citation Building - getting a lot of citation or mentions of your business around the web with or without link is another effective strategy that can boost your local search ranking. Even though citation building is not an easy task, ignoring it can miss you a lot of opportunity to get leads and sales. Make sure you list your site to different local business directory, industry specific site, region specific directory site especially if you can include your Business/Site name, Address, Phone number.

• Use country specific domain - Using country specific domain like .us, .uk, .ca, .nz or .ph is another effective way to tell and influence search engine, as it clearly gives them strong signal about your location to boost your local ranking.

• Set you Site Geographic target at Google Webmaster Tool - To set it, you must verify first your site to Google Webmaster Tool. Only site that has neutral top-level domain, such as .org or .com can only set their geographic target. Check this link for more info > >  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

• Obtain links from locally relevant domain or site - It is also believe that obtaining links that has the same geographic target as yours has more impact than obtaining links from site who is outside the reach of your geographic target or location. In short better get links from local website that is relevant to yours than getting links from outsite the country.

Website To Visit For Latest SEO News and Strategies

Doing SEO is a continuously learning process. If you're still up to using old SEO tactics, then better start reading news update from now on. Most of those old seo tactics nowadays are now diminished, so it won't work. You might end up getting penalize if you still use these old stragegies in search engine optimization.

Being up to date on the latest news about SEO is must. This will be a huge help to improve your campaigns as you can easily formulate new strategies while adapting to changes to avoid any problem that you may encounter in the future.

Here's a list of site that I recommend if you want to be up to date in the latest news and strategies on SEO.

Search Engine Land ( searchengineland.com ) - It is a daily news and analysis website that covers every aspect of search engine optimization and search engine marketing. It is owned by Third Door Media, this site was founded on 2006 by it's current editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan.

Search Engine Watch ( searchenginewatch.com ) - Another SEO information website which provide latest news, tips and analysis about search engine industry. It's a must read site for webmaster to help their site improve it's ability to be easily found by search engines and as well as to learn how it works.

Search Engine Journal ( www.searchenginejournal.com ) - A site to learn more about latest insights and strategy about seo, sem and social media that came from real industry experts that will surely boost your online marketing campaign.


And here's my personal favorite list of Philippines SEO Blogs that I also suggest you to read :


SEO Hacker ( http://seo-hacker.com/ ) - Founded by it's editor in chief  Sean Si. SEO hacker provides you an awesome and proven effective tips and tricks in search engine optimization.

Glendemands ( http://www.glendemands.com/ ) - An SEO and Content Marketing Strategies Blog by Glen Dimaandal. This blog will surely help you a lot for you to have a successful killer seo and content marketing strategies.

Kaiser The Sage ( http://kaiserthesage.com/ ) - This is another cool seo blog for you learn latest link building strategies that works.