Backlinking your Citations
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- Mar 30, 2019
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Powering up citations used to be my go-to for better organic rankings (local business websites).
To be fair, most citation links aren't powerful on their own so a 2nd tier is always nice if you have the resources for it.
To be fair, most citation links aren't powerful on their own so a 2nd tier is always nice if you have the resources for it.
achrafinho
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- Feb 14, 2019
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hi man please is there a thead to follow for the citations backlinks ?
What are gsa ?
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Page1Position6
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- Apr 4, 2019
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Hey, am just getting started with GSA blast and learning about it with some Tier 3 tests.
Could you share your settings/ types of links for Tier 2 on citations? Or do you just fully blast anything and everything?
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I never learned how to use it myself lol. I just use the vendors here in the marketplace.
Page1Position6
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Any gig in particular?
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April Jesser
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Citations are super important because they give you local relevancy while creating an “entity” around your client's brand. The most important factor to have in mind is to be consistent.
Goldenmonkey1
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Someone can explain to me what is a citation please ? (I'm not an english native ...)
RebeccaThomas
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- Jun 18, 2019
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Depend on what you're trying to achieve. If you want to rank in the local listings pack, then backlinking won't do anything - it will help your organics though somewhat.
Scraper9
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Roughly how many links you are building per citation?
I have used GSA links to blast citation in the past, but in the last 2-3 years I stop using them for that, mainly because all the sellers were using low quality GSA lists.
What will do it then if trying to rank in map packs?
RebeccaThomas
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- Jun 18, 2019
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Ranking on map packs is a mix of things really.
1. Number of citations
2. Number of reviews
3. Proximity of the address to the location
4. SEO Power of the original site (backlinks)
5. On-Page SEO within the website itself
6. Having the NAP printed on the website (Usually in the footer and on contact us page)
7. Placing a Google Maps insert on your website centered on your mapping location.
8. Displaying the same phone number on your website as the map listing
Some of these things will come naturally as part of your standard SEO, whilst others will require work in their own right. IMHO it usually takes a few months to start to see good results from a map pack SEO plan. The main thing with mapping is keeping every citation "clean" - that's to say you need the exact same address, name, phone number etc etc on every listing. With a map listing, Google looks for a strong correlation between your business and the location - every citation and the above list helps build this.
Also, and I really can't prove this to be honest but I've seen it work and it's one of my "go to plays". I always run an Adwords campaign in the locality I'm trying to get my mapping listing in. I can't really prove this works (it could be complete nonsense as correlation is not causation) but I've a strong hunch it helps a bit. At any rate if you're running a local business, bedding in an Adwords campaign and getting it profitable should be part of your game plan anyway. Most local businesses run away from Adwords because of bad experience with the "simple tool" they provide that's designed to earn Google money - rather than you. If you run Adwords properly and manually, you should get a nice ROI and low CPC after a month or two.
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I appreciate the response. This is why I'm so confused bc we are doing all of this and it's been months already, and still not pushing anyone out.
RebeccaThomas
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Is your map pack full of very established older companies BTW? In these cases it can be a hard slog to prove to Google you're worthy of a top spot. I work in an industry with many companies that have been in existance for 20+ years - it's difficult sometimes to compete with them.
The only thing I can say it keep doing what you're doing. Slow and steady progress almost always wins in the end.
HustleTong
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GSA works, particularly with T3 & T2.