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Again, super helpful Miriam! Just read the article on Call Tracking numbers. Ugh! I changed the phone numbers in the content but left the tracking number in the image at the top. Yet, now I am worried about Google's Optical Character Recognition. We're trying to track how many potential customers call us from the site, which can only be done with a tracking code. But I certainly don't want to jeopardize our Local SEO.

Todd

Also, I checked my excel doc for local search listings and I did create a listing for Yelp, Nokia and eLocal. Is there a lag time with GetListed?

Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/health-care-associates-and-community-care-givers-grandville

Nokia: http://here.com/primeplaces/places/show/840dpeh0-7d7af180af71446ba3ab8b5a54ab7c03?tab=edit

eLocal: http://www.elocal.com/profile/health-care-associates-of-grand-rapids-13605570?utm_source=GetListed&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=GetListed-Submissions

Todd

Hi Miriam,

As a follow up, here is some more detail.

1. I have a well written blog post that is locally optimized (http://healthcareassociates.net/5-reasons-home-health-care-in-grand-rapids-michigan-is-the-epitome-of-care/). It is well liked and shared. Do I need to focus more on optimizing the home page?

2. Yikes. I had no idea. I will have them remove the reviews.

3. Yeah, we have a tracking number to measure people coming from the website. I am having my web guy change the footer number. Does the number at the top need to change too? Its an image. We really do need to track people and figure out how they care calling us.

4. We meet with our clients in their own home. They rarely come into the main office.  So I should hide my business' address? How will local map work then?

5. How much does it cost for a professional audit?

Thanks again!

Todd

Miriam, thank you so much for the detail. I will respond more tomorrow. I sincerely appreciate the depth of answer.

Thanks Gregory, I just made some changes based on your suggestions.

Thanks Matt. I will definitely be looking more at the guide.

Wow! Thank you so much guys for helping. And Miriam especially, I sincerely appreciate the help. I will start immediately implementing the above. Such a huge help!

I have used Get Listed and a few other services to update my profiles for my company Health Care Associates (its a home health care agency). http:healthcareassociates.net. I have added pictures, categories, descriptions, key words, etc. and it doesn't seem to help. We are still not ranking in the search engines for "home care grand rapids", "home health care" etc.

What else can I do to optimize the local search?

Todd

Thanks for the lead. I think I may contact her. It looks like they do free consultations to start off with.

I am trying to change the Title tag in the settings of Wordpress and it says, "Home Care Grand Rapids Michigan - Health Care Associates". I don't know why the extra "Home" tag is automatically being put in there or how to remove it.

Hi Mihai,

Thanks so much for the info. Maybe I am using Open Site Explorer wrong. I type in "home care grand rapids" in Google and pull off the top 4 pages and put them in OSE. Then I look at the results and see that my site is 2nd in page authority, 3rd in total links, 1st in total linking root domains, etc. Seems like it is doing well compared to the others.

Also, you say to get good references. For a different fitness site I had I could easily find other bloggers to guest post for but in the home health industry it seems like there aren't any bloggers. How do you get quality back links when there aren't other bloggers?

Thanks again. Very much appreciate it.

Todd

Thanks Egol,

I appreciate the recommendations and will definitely make them.

What else would you do for local search? I have secured and verified my Google place page and other business listings and am working on getting reviews for them. Any other ideas?

Todd

I am trying to rank for "home care grand rapids" and am having a really difficult time. My site: http://healthcareassociates.net has better backlinks, keywords and other seo markers than my competitors but I still can't seem to rank.

The keyword and associated keywords (home care grand rapids michigan, home health care grand rapids, etc.) are only 31-33% difficulty and my site/page rank is better than the leading sites. What gives?

Todd