Guest Blogging

[jpretz]

I am looking to get into guest blogging for our retail brick-and-mortar store to increase more local search traffic.

1. Any local SEO recommendations/tips you have?

2. Can you post the same article in multiple places? Or is this a huge no-no?

3. For local search, should we focus on article directories or guest blogs?

Thanks in advance for your feedback, and sorry that it's a three-parter!

[DavidKonigsberg]

1- Make local listings , & Google places etc

2- big no no

3-guest blogging for sure

4- focus on guest blogging on sites with a audience  similar to your customer base (make sure the sites have traffic)

[HiveDigitalInc]

1. Just use your address and phone number in the byline of your blog posts, along with a link.

2. You can, but it kind of defeats the purpose. The 30 minutes it takes to write a decent piece of content is the least you can offer a blogger in return for space on their site.

3. Guest blogs. I would stay away from article directories - just my opinion, but they tend to be spammy, can lead to anchor text over optimization, and (if and when that happens) it is very difficult to remove the links.