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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
If your business serves multiple locations you can employ a number of different optimization approaches to reach these groups. One method that can be particularly effective involves optimizing individual pages on your website for each different location.
This type of targeting can be done on any level whether it’s city, state or area specific. When customers search for local keywords, this will give your business the greatest chance of being found in organic search results.
How to Optimize Each Location Page
Optimizing each location page to appear for local searches uses the same basic principles found in any SEO campaign.
Keyword Selection
On Page Optimization
If you have multiple office locations there are a number of additional optimization steps you can take for each page. The image below gives a nice overview of how these pages can be structured.
Using this strategy for your most important local markets is a good way to get noticed and improve your ranking in organic search results.
Matt is a marketing professional at ineedhits.com, an international search marketing firm. Matt's passion for online marketing began at university and has proved invaluable in steering product development and marketing initiatives at the company. Matt is a regular contributor to the ineedhits search marketing blog. Top 10 Listing! Get more targeted visitors to your site! No click fees! Find Out More Here | 1000+ Guaranteed Visitors Get thousands of guaranteed website visitors to your site in 30 days! Get Started Here |
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These are all good tips. The search engines rank pages, not websites as a whole, so it’s a good idea to customize a page for each location. Always incorporate the city and state in the meta tags and content.
By Nick Stamoulis - April 5, 2011
Hey Matt,
Excellent post… I’ve been really trying to wrap my head around geo-targetting. I’m owner of InstallHDTV.com, and being as Google is pushing local businesses much more as of late being local seems to be even more important. If you visit installhdtv.com/directory/ you’ll see I did similarly to what you stated in this article.
I’d like to pick your brain for a moment though. What I was also thinking about doing was setting up a geolocation script, that “localizes” the entire website when the user visits the site based on their location. So for instance, on the index page right where it says “Local TV Installation” based on the location it would say Connecticut CT Installation, etc. Now I know this will provide no SEO/SERP value, but I think it might make the site more “cozy” to the consumer looking for a local installer, and make us appear less like a “large” company.
What about creating 50 “local” Google Voice numbers, all forwarding to our primary 800#? We’ve thought about that too. Technically we are falsifying being a local business, but isn’t that what geo-targeting is all about?
What are your thoughts on this? I’d love to hear what your personal opinion on these thoughts are!
By David Aimi - April 8, 2011
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