Local SEO Expert

Tomatoweb said:

Welcome to BHW !
I would like to ask what factors are more important to rank higher
and also if you have tips for GMB ranking

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Randall F said:

Hello @Local SEO Expert

Did you ever tried to rank outside of US? Competition is pretty low if you compare it with UK, US or CA; the same happens in "Tier 2" or "Tier 3" countries when talking about potential earnings of course.

Hope you can share your knowledge with this community.

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secretslocalseo said:

OnPage.

If you want to rank in Local Map Pack, you have to rank higher in organic.

For example, if you want to rank "lawyers in miami", you have to highly target your page for "lawyer".
I mean, you should strive to rank in top 100 for the word "lawyer". If you achieve that goal, you'll rank easier for the search term "lawyer in miami".

How to do it?

Run Website Auditor TF-IDF for "Lawyer".
Run Surfer SEO for "Lawyer".
Run Seobility.net TF-IDF for "Lawyer".

Your goal is to rank in organic for the niche.

Do that and let me know.


Yeah, I'm ranking outside US too.

What I have to say is that Reviews are a strong ranking signal, so even when there is "less" or "low" competitors, you'll still have to increase your reviews and usually that's include hard work adding the reviews and the time you got those.

Hope this advice can help you guys.

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fpboy250a1 said:

Without GMB, can I get Google Knowledge Panel?
Like How GMB show's our business office, can we do that without GMB?

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Tomatoweb said:

Thank you for the help and response
I currently rank in first page for my keyword, so I understand it will be easier for me to rank on GMB.
Any tips how to get my site to be #1?

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Hi, I'm a Local SEO Expert, 5+ years of experience working with US Clients.

I like to Reverse Engineering SERPs.

If you have any question regarding SEO, please let me know I'll be happy to help.

This is my first post in this community.

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secretslocalseo said:

Ask your customers to add Reviews to your GMB.

I got this data from one of my keywords about "Web Design in City"

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You can see #1 has 80 Reviews, completely a Local Ranking Factor.

This is for "Lawyer":
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Tomatoweb said:

Where can I extract GMB competition to see how many citation or reviews or pics in their GMB?

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secretslocalseo said:

You can get the number of reviews directly in Google.

For citations use WhiteSpark.

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Tomatoweb said:

Thank you.
Can you share tips for rank my website ? Currently in first page I want to go number 1.

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secretslocalseo said:

Get the basics first.

I recommend you Website Auditor, it's free and you'll learn A LOT!

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secretslocalseo said:

Ask your customers to add Reviews to your GMB.

I got this data from one of my keywords about "Web Design in City"

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You can see #1 has 80 Reviews, completely a Local Ranking Factor.

This is for "Lawyer":
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DomantasDigital said:

What reviews we are talking about? I mean where the reviews have to be left to become a strong signal for ranking?

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