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| Thursday, June 23, 2011
Five Non-Local SEO Tips
By: Richard Burckhardt
Or, What To Do After Google Gives Your Web-Only Site The Finger
It seems that everything has gone local with with search engine results lately. With Google, if you don't rank in the top three for many queries, you are buried below seven local businesses and below the fold. Of course, you are also buried beneath the Adwords ads and the Related Searches, too.
This is a boon to local businesses as they now have the opportunity to appear on page one of the Google serps through their Google Places profiles. Of course, this is a big, fat middle finger pointed at non-local web-only sites without the local offices and locations that many of the big chains can leverage. (Image below)
Emphasis on local means fewer organic results appearing above the fold.
So, what is a web-based site to do? Here are five SEO tips that I have come up with to cope with this love affair with local that Google is having. I'm hoping that readers will contribute some of their own.
1. Stay in the Top 3: Yeah, this is a no-brainer, but Google has put the pressure on more than ever before to keep top rankings. They've always been the goal, but now they are a must. You can't be content with being in the top five anymore.
2. Leverage Universal Search: Remember that all kinds of media can appear in the serps รข€" video, images, news, etc. Optimize for all. You might not appear in the top three, but your images or videos might appear somewhere on the page. The more exposure for you, the better. (See image below)
3. Go for the Longtail: The local search results appear to come up more frequently for less specific queries like "tires" and not for more specific information like "snow tires" so optimize around keyword phrases for related queries.
About the Author:
Richard V. Burckhardt, also known as The Web Optimist, is an SEO based in Palm Springs, CA with over 10 years experience in search engine optimization, web development and marketing. |
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