Ranking a small local business site.

karlissens

karlissens

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Hello,

I'm working on ranking a small local business site. It is a non English speaking country, the competition isn't really tight, I would say it is average.

I was thinking what would be the best way to rank the website? Should I go with tiered link building - building manual web 2.0, then blast them with links. Or should I open a blog and go with seo optimized articles? Or maybe both?

You guys probably will have some more suggestions.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Build Blogs with Multiple Posts & Tier Links for them is Good Links Strategy.
 
Citations, they're very important. Get's your business listed as local with the address on the map and everything, if done right.
 
there was a good post about Local seo by sudorank , use the search bar
 
Social signals, forum posting, blog posting and link building... once done your site will rank :)
 
LostConnection said:
Citations, they're very important. Get's your business listed as local with the address on the map and everything, if done right.
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I second this, citations and good content can do wonders for your ranking.
 
If it's new then you should go with social signals..
 
lilmasta said:
there was a good post about Local seo by sudorank , use the search bar
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Thanks for the info, I went trough it. You can't really call it a local seo, because when I did keyword research no city or region names come in. This is a small country and people when looking for this kind of services usually don't use city names.
 
Get some local seo reviews from sites like G+ or yelp
 
karlissens said:
Thanks for the info, I went trough it. You can't really call it a local seo, because when I did keyword research no city or region names come in. This is a small country and people when looking for this kind of services usually don't use city names.
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Then a small private blog network should work for you.
 
TeKn1qu3z said:
Get some local seo reviews from sites like G+ or yelp
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But the thing is noone here uses Yelp or G+. If I would ask some local people what is yelp or G+ they would just say "I don't know"
 
Here is what you need OP, create about 10-15 contextual web2.0s, blast the web2.0s with wiki and socialbookmarking links, get yourself couple of PR2-PR3 pbn, 10 or 15 should do.
Voila

Rinse and repeat.
 
karlissens said:
But the thing is noone here uses Yelp or G+. If I would ask some local people what is yelp or G+ they would just say "I don't know"
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What country is this for? Maybe find some local review services, or just put reviews onto your website directly
 
I don't know if this is possible or not in your country.
Google has a platform for business. Google places I believe it's called. I'm
Pretty sure yahoo does as well. Listing a site there can do wonders. Also there
Analytics are useful In terms of demographics. See who views the site and
The bounce rate.
 
First thing : register with Google Local Businesses. Ask to verify the location - Google sends you a PIN.

After you verify add your local URL on the business listing. If competition is low this gets you to one of the top positions for local terms in your niche.
 
here is a quick overview of the competition.
I'm having a hard time understanding why the 2. position is in second position.
The one with 2002 BL is a root domain, the rest of them are some pages within a domain. No EMD's

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As I said guys the keyword isn't red widgets in lonon it's just red widgets
 
For local seo without much competition, add citations and some quality backlinks from local directories backed up by some manual backlinks (high PR relevant comments, maybe a PR and a couple of unique article submissions in top tier directories such as EZA). These should suffice. Don't go hard if the competition is not much. A good website design would also help. Google just needs to acknowledge that is a genuine and quality business. Reviews would help in that matter.
 
TheSEOWizard said:
For local seo without much competition, add citations and some quality backlinks from local directories backed up by some manual backlinks (high PR relevant comments, maybe a PR and a couple of unique article submissions in top tier directories such as EZA). These should suffice. Don't go hard if the competition is not much. A good website design would also help. Google just needs to acknowledge that is a genuine and quality business. Reviews would help in that matter.
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Does EZA even accept articles in non-english. As far as I know, they don't.
 
I would pretty much forget the tier game with Local. Build Citations that actually count, increase social signals,
and make sure you list their website on G+ (Common sense :D)

Depending on the area, business, and competition you can set up a local network for this as I call it.
That network would work best if they have links built to the aged domains from local sites. A guy here
named Accelerator_DD provides good aged domains.
 
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