Local SEO Help!
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At the minute 12 out of my 16 clients are Local SEO clients. I'm new to SEO Moz and still only at the low level subscription which gives me 5 campaigns. It seems to me (and I may be wrong) that SEO Moz is more suited for my clients that want to rank nationally. SEO Moz seems like it might be a little overkill for using up a campaign for local seo. I'm going to stay with SEO Moz as it is great for the few clients I have that want to rank nationally. So my question is does anyone know of a similar company to SEO Moz that focuses soley on local seo?
Does anyone have experience with Bright Local? How about shedding some light on what reporting software is good for LOCAL SEO?
http://www.brightlocal.com/seo-tools/
Thanks
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Great stuff! Thanks a million.
Gary
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Hi Gary
I'm in Perth Western Australia, I think our local is a bit different, i am sure we cover a much wider area.
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Gary, create a Craigslist account and grab the local market. I have a mobile car mechanic who gets more phone calls from Craigslist than from Google. Create 2 ads and keeps them on rotation. Each ad expires in 48 hours. Think I'm joking? TRY IT!
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Thanks Alan. To me the problem with local search is it only covers a 20 mile radius at best with Google Places. I have one client who does kitchen remodeling. I can get him to show up in the #1 position in his own town and a few surrounding towns but outside of that I have to move to PPC. An example would be: if someone searches on the keyword "Kitchen Remodeling" 10 miles away his company does not show up. The only to fix is PPC.
Thanks again for the feedback.
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Gary ,
At Pin Agency we do a good amount of local for Los Angeles. I can not vouch for Brightlocal as we have not used them . I can tell you though that getlisted.org is a really awesome launch pad and it is free ! Getlisted.org is maintained by some of the best local gurus . You can not go wrong with getlisted.org. I have also been testing out a pure local platform getmelisted.net since it was launched privately in Beta and I can say I was impressed and me and my team use this platform now. Those 2 assets should point you in the right direction when handling multiple local clients. The guy who developed getrmelisted.net is a friend and is very helpful in training people on his new platform. Let me know if you want an introduction .
Hope this helps.
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Unless you are international, i dont see much difference in the SEO. Obviously you want to include some local keywords, list yourself in loacl directories, but apart from that i think the approch is much the same.
When a local searcher in dallas texas searches for "accountant" seacrch engines know what city he is in, and will show maps a give local sites an advanatge. If the same searcher enters accountent new york, it will sjow maps for New York and give new york sites and advanatge in results.
By promoting your site, you are promoting it localy by default.
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This is a feature that I have wanted with one of my clients who is a car mechanic. I am more interested in Google Places, but at the same time I don't mind coming out in the regular SERPS. I have never heard of Bright Local. If I were in your shoes, I would use SEOMoz for site crawl diagnostics and competitive analysis. By competitive analysis I mean to see where your competitors are and why they are ranking.
It would be great if SEOmoz could give us local rankings too, but they would have to put a server in every city in the United States to give you an accurate ranking report.
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