The top 47 free local search directories

Local SEO is not only budget-friendly for a small business, but it offers the opportunity to connect with the most relevant customers. It is possible to achieve great local search rankings without a large SEO outlay. Whether you hire an SEO company or do it yourself, you must invest the time. Local business listings, when […]

Local SEO Google changes you MUST know about for 2016

If you’re not on top of local SEO, you’re behind. Google makes changes to their algorithm faster than the spinning of the Google Local Carousel. (Don’t know what the Local Carousel is? Don’t worry – it disappeared about a year ago. Case in point.) If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to keep up […]

Are you making these 6 local SEO mistakes?

How many customers could be finding you through Google? Let’s do the math: How many people live in your area of service? (NYC – a LOT; Bliss, Idaho, pop. 311 – not so many) How many are interested in what you have to offer? (if you sell pizza, probably over 90%; if you offer snake […]

What are local citations and why do they matter for local search?

What are local citations, and why do they matter for local search? That’s a question you might be wondering while you try to market your own local business in the busy online world. With SEO being the target goal in getting a local business to the top of Google and other search engines, you have […]