Again Google Local 3-Pack Makeover!

Google continues to update the display for local search results in the Local Pack by removing the website, directions and call buttons from listings, and replacing with an image.

Over the past six months we have seen numerous tests in the pack display. Today we are seeing a widespread (re) appearance of the snack pack type display that shows images instead of the click to call icon.

Previously this display was exclusive to restaurants and hotels but today (anyways) is being seen across most types of retail and service industry results. Although NOT on lawyers or doctors.

We have seen this style before but the rollout today seems more broad based. A test? The new normal?

The imagery persists across the local finder requiring at least two clicks in to get to driving directions or click to call….. the rabbit hole appears to be getting ever deeper.

Here is a comparable screen shot taken last week that shows the same search result and comparable screen :

Whether this is the new normal this week or not, it clearly demonstrates Google’s desire to:

1. Keep searchers at Google and
2. Force them into the Local finder.

This has plusses and minuses from the local business POV. It makes it harder for users to take immediate action and but it provides users with a greater range of choices from which to choose. The former hurts those ranking in the 3-pack and the latter helps all the others. What it does for any given businesses traffic is unclear.

Obviously this design offers up significantly more choices to the user and in doing so moves away from the idea of “the 3 best” companies that is implied with the 3 pack. If this were tied to the horizontal local finder that you now see in the Google iOS app, the idea that the listings are more equal would be even further reinforced.

Like with most recent changes this one, if it is a real rollout, seems to offer a mixed bag for the merchant and plus for Google and a few more steps for the searcher.

A Little History: Three, Ten, Seven, Three

In 2006, Google launched the One Box. In terms of local listings, this was also known as the very first “3-Pack.” This box was a blessing to many wishing to receive local business information quickly.

In January 2008, Google began to unveil its new 10 pack. The 10 pack was a godsend to many SEO professionals offering local listing services to their clients, as they could prove real ROI (“Look, you’re being highlighted by the Google Gods!”).

By October 2009, the 10 Pack was cut to the lucky 7 pack (Lucky for some, anyway!). Many local SEO professional saw this as a challenge, but not one that was too difficult to master. Google has been very straightforward from the beginning, explaining what was expected of local businesses in their online presence in order to appear on the new 7 pack.

In 2015, after a long, strong run, the 7 pack that local SEO professional have grown to love and master was replaced by what is now known as the Google Snack Pack.

How To Dominate The Google Snack Pack & Local SEO

If you don't have a Google Local SEO Strategy to Get your Business Found on Google Maps, You can follow My Local SEO Strategy. Adopting My Local SEO strategy will help your business flourish locally. Whether you are a local brick and mortar retailer or a national brand, starting at home is an excellent way to get your feet wet with Local SEO and become a local authority. I always advise clients that before you worry about your visibility around the world, take the top spot in your home city and scale up from there.

So how to do you get started? Get ahead of your competition and stay there with My 4 Phase Local SEO Strategies.

1. Full Citation Audit: The most important part of any Local SEO Campaign is ensuring NAP consistency, which is why MY every single Local SEO Campaign starts with a full audit. Without this crucial step (that most cheap competitors skip), you’d be throwing money down the drain.

I put every campaign through this extremely detailed, time intensive process. I record correct and incorrect citations, avoiding any duplication of efforts. This results in a fully detailed report, including a road map on how to repair incorrect citations most effectively.

2. Local Citations Building: Local Directory Citations are the bread and butter of Local SEO. With MY careful, manual submissions, I make sure you are in the BEST directories for your niche and market. This is not just a standard list of directories. Every single campaign is different and I leverage 3 strategies for determining which directories to submit to for that particular client.

Strategy 1: Ego directories – The most popular, traffic dense, authority directories.

Strategy 2: Competitor directories – I take your specific keywords and find out what citations are important not only in your industry but your specific SERPs.

Strategy 3: Competitor review directories – I scrape competitor review directories to find Google trusted directories.

I claim all the most important directories where possible, and provide detailed instructions for all others that should be verified by the client (some require a phone call for verification or other methods). Only live profiles are delivered, including all login info.

3. Rich Media Citations: Anyone can do plain old directory submissions, but to make them count, I beef them up with geo-tagged photos and videos, plus citations and links from rich media sources.

Video: I create straightforward, Animoto style video slideshows, with music, pictures and text. These videos are optimized to the fullest extent, including geo-meta data. I then submit these videos to the top video hosting sources, creating high authority, legit links and citations.

Photos: Here, you provide ME with 10, ideally relevant & branded images. I optimize, upload, and again optimize, including geo-meta data. I then submit these images to the top image hosting sources, creating high authority, legit links and citations.

4. Social Citations: Social Media Today brings together the news, trends and best practices around enterprise social and digital marketing. I make sure you’re ahead of the game and rounding out your citation profile by getting you awesome Social Citations.

In this phase, I create careful, manual Social Citations Submissions, adding all media and content which again results in high authority, legit links and citations. I submit to powerful & authoritative social media sites.

Need Help? Contact Me.

Ways to Adjust Adjust Your SEO Strategy After Google Local 3 Pack Shake Up

Adjust Your Local SEO Strategy - Google Local 3 Pack Shake Up

In early August, Google made some major changes to its "Local Pack" search results by opting to show three results instead of seven. Here are some ways to adjust strategy in order to stay on top of local search.

Google's decision to show fewer listings seems to be motivated by mobile. "Three-pack" search results make desktop searches mirror those on mobile with more space for map results and reviews, but less contenders for top rankings. However, search results are hyper-localized, meaning that the three-pack changes pretty often.

Plus, there's an opinion that the top 20 sites listed in the map view seems to be unaffected by the upgrade. This leaves some opportunity for businesses that don't make the top three, though some opposite cases have also been reported.


Have a Strong Presence on Local Platforms

Local searches are optimized based on the user’s location, so that users see the highest ranked businesses in their areas. The first step to gaining this local search ranking is having a strong presence in local search platforms or relevant review websites. A few of the top ones to consider include;

Google My Business: Google My Business, previously known as Google Places, used to be the first stop for anyone looking to make a dent in local search. One thing that is hugely popular on Google My Business is Google Click to Call, which generates about 30 million calls a month.

Yelp: Yelp is a popular review site that allows your customers to leave reviews of your business for everyone else to see. Not only will Yelp give you an opportunity to get great feedback from your customers, it will also allow you to set keywords for your local area.

Trip Advisor: Trip Advisor is relevant to those in the travel or hospitality industry. It allows users to review your business, upload photos and give you a rating out of five. It also gives you the ability to address any negative reviews.

The list of local search platforms is ever-expanding, and is specific your industry and what is popular with your target market. To get the best out of your local SEO campaign, you should use local search outlets as much as you use global sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. When it comes to local search, 45% of all searches are specifically goal oriented; meaning these users are ready and willing to buy.

Localize Your Information

On your website itself, and on your social media platforms, your content should be localized. The first step in doing this is ensuring your business address appears in a searchable part of the page (for example: not as an image). Your content should be locally specific as well, with the location of your business occasionally referenced in the text.

Make Sure You Go Mobile

Another thing to consider isn’t just how heavy your local presence is, but how your site looks when you get those users there. About 61% of mobile searches result in a purchase. If these highly motivated leads can’t easily navigate your site, those purchases are going to your competitors instead. As up to 25% of all internet traffic originates from a mobile device, it is imperative that your website accommodates these users.

Fully integrating local search into your campaign requires three important steps. Your site and your social media sites should include some local information. You should have a strong presence on local search platforms. Finally, you need to have a site that is easily accessible on a mobile device. Those businesses that embrace local and mobile search as part of their campaign are the ones who will manage to stay competitive in the constantly evolving digital marketplace.

Reviews Matter

Google has removed phone numbers and exact addresses from search results, but starred reviews remain. Therefore, businesses hoping to both crack the top three and see traffic from that ranking need to make sure they've got a high volume of good reviews, according to Shotland.

"Based on the current display, particularly the local finder, it does appear that ratings and reviews are much more prominent in the UI," Shotland says. "So focusing on making sure your business has a high rating with a decent amount of reviews should be a priority."

Double Down on Link-Earning

Once you break into that hyper-specialized top three, Rozek says, you're going to want to stay there. And increasing link-earning efforts is one of the best ways to stay on top of local search results.

"Even if you inhabit a smaller pond, you'll still want to become a bigger fish. So to that end, I'd suggest doubling down on your link-earning efforts," Rozek says. "Start with easy links, like joining at least one local Chamber of Commerce, joining an industry or professional organization, and maybe getting accredited by the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Of course, there's an infinite number of other good links you can get, but those are a solid start and often overlooked."

Make Sure Local Efforts Fit Into Overall Strategy

Changes like the three-pack updates are a given, and the best defense is a good offense, according to Mike Blumenthal, owner and local expert at Blumenthals. Local search efforts have to be integrated with a strong overall strategy to make an impact.

"I have long been a proponent of a mixed approach to local search that involves a strong website, a strong local presence, and strong locally-focused marketing campaign that keeps the brand prominence of your business high," Blumenthal says. "If you follow this tactic consistently, you will have the best on-going position to deal with the constant change."

For more about how to prepare your local business for the three pack upgrade, read our full Local 3-Pack SEO Guide.

Sohel Parvez Achieves Yext Certified Professional Status

I’m pleased to share the news that I become a Yext Certified Professional. This certificate marks the completion of the Yext Certified Partner Product and Sales Curriculum. Yext partnership program offers professional marketers, digital agencies, Local SEOs more control over brand experiences via AI technology and ensures a strong online presence for clients.

This Certification is just a credential that I'm expert in Yext technology.



As a Local SEO Expert, I'm partnering with Yext to level-up my Local SEO Service. This means I will be able to offer the powerful Yext platform to my clients local SEO campaign and giving my clients the ability to control even more local business listings online.

Yext is a location management service that helps to list your business on different local directories. Yext started off as a local advertising agency in 2006.

About Me

Search Engine Optimization Expert Focusing on Full Service Local SEO, SEO Audit, Technical SEO, Backlink Building, Yoast SEO and Speed Optimization, with 8+  Years’ of Experience in Freelancing.

I'm Helping my Clients for:-
✔️ Google My Business Setup and Optimization.
✔️ Local Business Listing Management - Citation Building and Cleanup.
✔️ Local and Organic SEO Strategy Development & Implementation.
✔️ BrightLocal, SEMrush, Moz, Ahrefs, Google Search Console & Analytics Property Management.
✔️ CMS & eCommerce Site Optimization.
✔️ In-depth Keyword Research.
✔️ Safe & Efficient Link Building & Links Profile Audits.
✔️ Technical SEO Audits and Fixing.
✔️ Spying On Competitors Site and Link Profiles.
✔️ Boost WordPress PageSpeed & Performance.

Marketing Agency and Business Owner Contact Me, I’m Happy to provide Specific details on Experience or References from past Projects.

The Philosophy Behind Link Building

Among Internet Marketer, there seems to have controversy when it comes to baclinks, link building strategies & it's importance. if you ask a group of online marketer, What is a backlink?, Why are backlinks So Useful?, How do search engines evaluate backlinks?, importance of backlinks in seo? link earning, etc you'll get different & vague answers from them.

To make you clear, in this post I'll write simple to understand definition of Philosophy Behind Link Building & to help you make sense of what's backlinks truly harmful for your website.

So, What is a Backlink?

A backlink is a clickable piece of text or an image that links one website, webpage, or files to another. As an example here is a link to the Local SEO Consultant at this website, which is surrounded by the anchor text "Local SEO Consultant", So, we’ve got the answer of most important question out of the way.

Backlinks are also knows as Internal Links, Inbound Links & Outbound Links. Let’s move on to Why are backlinks So Important to the web in general as well as for SEO prospective.

Why are Backlinks So Important?

Without backlinks the world wide web (aka WWW) as we know it wouldn’t exist. Without backlinks, how would we ever browse the internet? Now I know you’re going to Say, well I could search in Google to find the results I want. That however is not really going to work because how could Google find and index all the webpages on the Internet without being able to search around from link to link?. And even google managed (Many of you believe, "Google can do anything!") to do it & how could you visit those webpages, if backlinks don't exist on google search index?

So, Backlinks are useful & also important, because it's the reference of the WWW. Without reference we’d still survive, but getting around would be pretty difficult, wouldn’t it?

For example, if a Local SEO Expert has a website about how to build healthy backlinks, and received a backlink from another website about backlinks building, then that would be more relevant in a search engine's assessment than say a link from a site about carpet cleaning. The more relevant the site is that is linking back to your website, the better the quality of the backlink.

How do Search Engines Evaluate Backlinks?

Search engines like Google, Yahoo! & Bing crawl the world wide web looking for new content to display to their searchers. They go from link to link, site to site and page to page finding content so they can show them when someone searches a query which each page is highly relevant for. These links could be on websites or blogs or document or social media sites. This is one of many reasons why backlinks is so important to SEO.

The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the particular website. Backlinks are important for SEO, because some search engines, especially Google, give more value to websites that have a good number of healthy quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a user search query.

In Google's eye, A backlink considered to be a positive 'vote' for the receiving webpage from another granting webpage.

Why are Backlinks So Important in SEO?

In deciding how search engines rank webpages, they want to give their user the most relevant & useful result which satisfies the users search query. If you type ‘local seo services’ into Google and you get results for carpet cleaning and janitorial service companies, what are you going to do? You’re going to search in another search engine such as Bing or Yahoo!, and Google may have lost you as a user.

Google is the market leader in search and they have a 63.8% market share in the U.S according to comScore Releases February 2016 U.S. Desktop Search Engine Rankings. They’ve achieved this by giving us the best results when we search for things compared to their competitors. Therefore the key is giving the most relevant set of results for any of the billions of possible things somebody could type into the search box.

Not only are backlinks the reference that search engines use to find webpages but backlinks are one of the major signals that search engines use to decide how relevant and authoritative a particular page is. The links which point at individual pages from other web pages around the internet really help search engines to understand more about pages and how to best arrange them to keep their users happy. You’d be surprised. There’s a lot of information that can be collected from a backlinks and they gather the maximum information possible!

When the search engines calculate the relevance of a site to a user search query (aka keyword), they consider the number of quality inbound links to that site. So we should not be satisfied with merely getting inbound links & it's quantity, it is the quality of the inbound link that matters most. A search engine considers the content of the sites to determine the quality of a link. When inbound links to your site come from other sites, and those sites have content related to your site, these inbound links are considered more relevant to your site. If inbound links are found on sites with unrelated content, they are considered less relevant. The higher the relevance of inbound links, the greater their quality.

For example, If you are an Carpet Cleaner in Phoenix, Arizona and somebody searches for ‘carpet cleaner phoenix’ you want to be on page 1, right? Page 1 normally only has 10 results and you can bet that there are far more than 10 cleaners competing for that page 1 spot. Whilst there are a huge number of factors in Google’s algorithm and backlinks certainly aren’t the be all and end all, backlinks are one of the strongest factors currently used. In your case, Local SEO is highly important for your local businesses, and of course we do offer local SEO services.

Another reason you may want to achieve backlinks is to allure more visitors to come to your website. You can't build a website, and then expect that people will find your website without showing user the way. You will probably have to get the word out there about your site. One way business owner & webmaster got the word out used to be through backlinking. Let's talk about, how can we help you to build backlinks.

How Can We Help You to Build Backlinks?

Backlinks Building is what we usually do. As discussed, backlinks are not the only important search engine ranking factor to be considered but in any good SEO campaign you will have to build high quality backlinks to your website to help to show search engines that your site is relevant for the keywords agreed upon at the keyword research stage of the SEO Strategy. Building backlinks is known as off site optimization.

Honestly, it’s not easy to get natural authority backlinks (Great Healthy Backlinks Require a Great Amount of Time, Work & Content), after all why would another webmasters or websites owner link back to your site. Our job with the SEO link building campaign is to help you to create mirthful link worthy content for your website and then to use various plans and methods to inspire relevant webmasters or websites owner to link back to your website & content.

The days are long gone, when low-quality reciprocal links, links from link-farms, & paid links worked for search engine organic ranking. Instead we focus our all attention to creating high quality content. We create a serious content marketing strategy & execute them accordingly. We’ll be able to establish your business website as an authority site within your given niche or industry.

What's About Reciprocal Links, Link farms, and Paid Links?

There is much discussion about reciprocal links, link farms, paid links & It's Importance last few years. In the Google Jagger Update at October 2005, In this algorithm changes, Google released a series of updates, mostly targeted at low-quality links, including reciprocal links, link farms, and paid links. Reciprocal links were one of the targets of Google's Jagger update & Google not valuing reciprocal link exchange since then.

Many webmasters had agreed upon reciprocal link exchanges & paid links, in order to boost their website's rankings with the sheer number of inbound links. In a link exchange, one webmaster or website owner places a link on his website that points to another webmasters or owners website, and vice versa. Many of these links were simply not relevant, and were just discounted by google jagger algorithm update. So while the irrelevant backlink was ignored, the outbound links still got counted, diluting the relevancy score of many websites. This caused a great many websites to drop off the Google Organic Ranking.

In a Paid Links, one webmaster or website owner places a link on his website that points to another webmasters or owners website for money. This links too act as reciprocal link & but called one way reciprocal link.

We must be carefully dealt with these kinds of link. Google not only check the popularity of the sites being linked to, but also how trustworthy a site is that you link to from your own website. This will mean that you could get into trouble with the search engine just for linking to a bad website. Please read more about google's Link schemes.

How to get rid of the harmful links Pointing to your website?

• Ask webmasters to remove the links.
• Submit the harmful links to Google disavow tool.
• Make sure to regularly re-check your links.
• Contact Us & We"ll Help you remove harmful links.

What's Link Earning?

Link Earning is the process of creating high quality content that other webmaster, website owner and bloggers cannot fail to link to your website content. And hey, this give you more power if you’re a recognized brand that can build your link portfolio this way. This is indubitably the ideal scenario for any website owner. But if you’re NOT recognized as a brand, however, this version of link earning Technics is highly unrealistic expectation for you.

Because Search Engine Algorithms are highly dependent on quality & authoritative backlinks, you’re not going to rank if you don’t have high enough quality backlinks.

And guess what? If you don’t rank high on search engine organic result, the primary reference that would allow people to find your website useful and amazing, is besieged for all intents and purposes.

So you can’t be found in search engine's organic search unless you have enough backlinks, and you can’t realistically “earn” links unless people are finding your site.

What If I Use Backlink Building Tool?

I wouldn't recommend you to use a backlink building software, it has to be "manual". If you use a link building software to build Automated links, Google will eventually find out and your website could be penalized.

Here are some Automated Link Building Techniques that are definitely going to caught by Google Algorithm:

• Spun Content Submission.
• Blog & Forum Commenting.
• Forum Profile & Comment Link.
• Low Quality Directory Submission.
• Private Blog Networks.

Be Careful Of Outgoing Links: I’m going to keep this part simple, here are some quick guides for outgoing links:

• Bad Neighbourhoods (spam, warez etc sites)
• Moderate or Remove any obvious spam from user generated content and apply nofollow to any outgoing links.
• Don’t link to low quality sites/content.
• If you are selling links, Add the nofollow attribute to the links.
• Add the nofollow attribute to any affiliate links.
• Don’t hide outbound links.
• Periodically review and clean up broken outbound links.

Need High Quality Authority Link Building? Contact to one of our Link Building Specialists today to know more on how backlinks can help improve your website organic ranking.

How Do I Make a Begin Then?

Sylvester Stallone & Caitriona Balfe in Escape Plan Movie (2013)

Have a good read of the pages and posts of this site. We try to straightforward SEO as much as we can at here, and there is some good guidance that we write regularly. We also emphasize the importance of Good SEO Campaign & Mobile Marketing and if you are looking for Local SEO Services & Citation Building Service, we can help. Once you’ve decided what services you need from us, just fill out our contact form and we’ll get right back to you. We’d love to talk to you about your business and how we can help to take it forward online, and quite simply, make you more money.

Don’t worry, Our Local SEO Services & Citation Building Pricing is not expensive and we can talk through the options for you. We offer Guaranteed Local SEO and if you want instant traffic through PPC we can help you with Adwords Campaign Management too. We’re confident that you will have a huge return on your investment from our service. Contact Us Today!

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How to improve rankings on google maps; Top 10 tips for Local SEO

Local business owners we talk to love to embrace the do-it-yourself attitude, so we thought it would be a good post to present the basics for do-it-yourself online marketing for local businesses. We often here: “Why should I pay someone if I can do it myself?” Of course, that’s usually if we had all the time in the world. Unfortunately, Local SEO can become time consuming very quickly, especially due to the complexity of the fragmented local search market.

However, it is possible for owners to work on a little bit each month to improve their rankings on Google Maps for Local SEO, or improve their Yelp profile (Online Reputation Management) to reach new traffic, or add fresh content or a blog to their website (Search Engine Optimization) in order to improve their Google Search Rankings. Part of the do-it-yourself marketing strategy is to prioritize your efforts based on what you’re trying to achieve and the amount of work that goes into each effort. Many of our customers seem to ask a lot of the same questions, so we wanted to put together this list and prioritize it for those that are just getting started.

Local SEO in the context of this article is the activity of updating your company’s business listings and content (on both local search sites and your website) in order to improve your rankings on sites like Google Maps, Yelp, and other local sites and search engines. After you have mastered, Local SEO, then you can start tackling Social Media Optimization (SMO), but that’s for another time. Here we go, hope you’ve had your coffee today!

CLAIM YOUR LISTING

Everything starts with this. Claiming your listing can have an immediate impact on improving your rankings on Google Maps and others. Also, you need to have control of your listings for effective online reputation management. In addition, you don’t want anyone (especially a competitor) to hijack your listings. Be sure to perform a vanity search on Google Maps, Yahoo Local, Bing Maps, Yelp, Citysearch and Yellowpages.com. Add listings where you’re not listed and claim all the listings you found. You will need to go through a simple verification process.

DETERMINE YOUR RANKINGS

Where do you rank when you search for your primary category and local city? Are you in the first couple pages? Start by getting a good understanding of where you rank today in order to set some goals and track your performance. If you have a website, check your web search rankings for your category/keywords. If you don’t have a site, get one! Even if you don’t really need a site to drive business, it will help with validating your business and listings for local search optimization (Local SEO). You can get a very basic site up and running pretty cheap these days.

UPDATE/ADD CONTENT

Update your listings. Be sure your information is accurate and consistent. Consistency of your business details is important throughout the web. Avoid using call tracking numbers if possible. Add photos and videos. Create/add a video on YouTube and link to it on your Google Place Page. This content can help improve your rankings, but will also differentiate you from others and provide with control over your online reputation. This content improves how a potential customer sees you, hopefully motivating them to take the next step (call or stop by). Be sure to update your categories as well. Mike Blumenthal has a great tool to help you before you login and update your Google listing. You should try to add as many categories that are still relevant to your products/services. Complete as much info as you feel comfortable and maintain accuracy (Hours, Payment Types, Menus, Email). This will help you with both improving rankings as well as online reputation management.

ACHIEVE BUSINESS LISTING NIRVANA

Consistency is vital across the web when it comes to business details. However, there are so many sites with your listings today, it can become overwhelming. If you’ve ever moved or changed your business name, then you’re old data could still be moving around the web. However, you can start at the source. Most business listings come from 3 primary listing databases. This is a great way to add your listings and clean up old data. Consistency will help search engines aggregate all references to your business (establishing “trust” for your location and listing, which can help improve your rankings for your local business). If a site has conflicting information it can’t be tagged to your business properly as a citation, losing the value of that reference from an SEO perspective. Only with true consistency everywhere can you achieve business listing nirvana! Add/update listings on these top 2 databases. Axciom is the third, but they don't allow self-provisioning.

UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE’S CONTACT PAGE

Be sure that search engines can find your location data. At a minimum, your contact information should be in clear HTML (not an image or flash). To really comply and ensure that search engines can find you accurately, provide your contact information in an hCard or add a KML to the site. You can create a KML file (like a sitemap) to Google directly via the Google Webmaster Tools. For those of you that now have a blank stare on your face-ask your webmaster, local seo consultant, or your nephew to look into it. Here are some easy to follow blogs explaining each along with links to the tools.

UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE PAGE TITLE TAGS

On your home page and throughout your site, be sure to include targeted keywords (your categories and services) in the title tags along with your most targeted geolocation keywords (cities, neighborhoods, etc). This is very important if you are trying to improve your rankings and for General Web Search Results and optimize for your website. You may also want to have your internal site links/URLs updated to have some of these keywords integrated there as well. This will let search engines better understand what you do and what locations you serve, resulting in a greater relevance for these keywords. This greater relevance will results in higher rankings for the keywords you are targeting. Once these steps are completed and picked up by the search engines, go back and check your rankings again. For your contact page, be sure to have your business name in your title tag and listed on your page near your business details. This will provide greater validation and authority that you are the owner of these business details. If you have multiple locations, consider creating a separate page, URL and title tag for each location. (For example: www.tamaleheaven.com/contact/sanfranciscomexican) That way when a user searches for your services in that city, you’ll be highly optimized for that specific location.

GET CITATIONS/INBOUND LINKS

It’s time for you to tune your PR skills. If you’ve made it this far, then it’s likely you really are really intent on SEO. Citations are references to your business including your address or phone number and they can have a big impact on improving rankings on Google Maps. Inbound links are other sites that link to your site and this can tell search engines how important/respected your site is by others. This, in turn, can impact your rankings on general web search results. At this point, you have likely received inbound links by accident. Hopefully you’ve had some articles written about you or joined your local BBB. But for SEO, you need to kick in the PR machine. Effective SEO strategy today is often more about what is going on “offsite”. This means that search engines use content found throughout the web about your site/business to help validate it and increase the value of your site/service. For web search, this is called Page Rank. The other important thing to understand is that different sites that point to yours have different values. So if you have a New York Times review linking to your site or business listing, this is much more valuable than Mary’s Family Blog who just loves your Butter Cream Pie. The Times article is exponentially more valuable. But quantity is important too, so don’t spend all your time hounding the New York Times food editors. There are much easier ways to get started. For building inbound links and citations, take any of your competitor’s sites and see where they have links and ask for coverage. Yahoo’s Site Explorer is free and one of the most comprehensive. A well known paid tool is available from MOZ called Linkscape.

GET REVIEWS

If you don’t have any reviews, get some. If you already have some, get some more! Drive a review campaign either quarterly or monthly. If you have a customer database, send out an email. Or print some business cards with reminders on them for people to review when they get home. Put it on the back of your appointment reminder cards. Make it easy. You can try to offer an incentive, but this can be a delicate line, so be careful with this approach. I suggest you just give great customer service and just ask nicely! Be sure to have your reviews posted spread across various sites, including Yelp, Google, Bing, Citysearch, etc. Not only do reviews do have an effect on local search rankings, but more importantly, they create a positive online reputation for prospective customers looking for your services. Be sure to address any negative reviews immediately by reaching out to customer and try to turn that negative into a positive. If they have an iPhone or smartphone, get them to do it before they leave!

SCOUT THE COMPETITION

Once you’ve done some of the basic blocking and tackling mentioned above, you can start to scope out the competition in order to get some clues on what’s working for them. For mapping sites, review what competitors are in the top 3 on Google Maps. Things to look at include:

• # of citations (Quantity and Quality, such as BBB)
• Review quantity and quality (Overall Rating)
• Content (Photos, Videos, Hours of Operation, Email, Categories)
• User Content (# of times an end user has tagged the listing)

For general web search, you’ll want to look at some of the following. Keep in mind; this is just a place to start. There is a lot more analysis that can be done once you’ve mastered this.

1. Page Titles (Do they include keywords for services and localities.
2. Page Description (Do they have a brief, but effective description of the site so searches are inclined to click when they see it in the search results page)
3. URLs (Do they have keywords included in any urls)
4. Keyword Density (Are they repeating keywords evenly throughout the copy)
5. Fresh Content (Do they have a blog and/or regularly post new articles)

TRACKING AND ANALYTICS

One of the most important aspects to any effecting marketing plan is to measure results along the way. We are big believer in the value of analytics to measure performance and learn what is most effective for your business. That is why we built chatmeter, so please sign up today if you have not already. The chatmeter will report your monthly rankings on both local and web search sites, measure customer feedback across multiple review sites, and indicate the amount of chatter you’re getting from blogs and social media sites. In addition, be sure to check your Local Business Center for reports on your Google listings. A great tool for your website is Google Analytics. It’s free, easy to use, and very comprehensive. If you are driving traffic to your site at all, then you must have a measurement tool in place. These tools can be great ways to measure the effectiveness of your do-it-yourself marketing strategy. If you’ve made it through this whole post, congratulations! Either now, you’re well on your way to a do-it yourself online marketing strategy, or your ready to call for backup.

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Strategy, Process & Life Cycle - Grassroots SEO!

Below you'll find the basic layout of your 6-12 month campaign, starting with what's in your SEO strategy. Let's start with milestones. You can put your milestones into a Google Spreadsheet in bold, font 24. Paste items in between milestones respectively, as you grow in your understanding of SEO best practices and techniques.

You can also use project management tools, such as TeamWorkLive.com or Basecamp, both of which allow you to calendar your milestones and create assignable task lists beneath them.

Milestone 1 - Your SEO Strategic Plan (1 Month)

You are going to get to hundreds of ideas and tools thrown at you for keyword research, spying on competitors, finding link opportunities and elements to consider when planning your SEO campaign. Problem is, most presenters don't actually say "okay, add these line items to your research to-do list, phase 1 of 5 in your holistic SEO strategy", they just say "here's some stuff you can do".

What's in Your SEO Plan?

Below is a list of reports and actionable lists to carry over to your project management system (or spreadsheet). The planning phase can take up to a month, but will save you a lot of time and frustration later in the campaign. Remember, this is boilerplate, so you can squeeze in new research and data-mining tasks you pick up from events. Isn't it nice to have a place to start putting the "stuff"?

1. Obstacle Analysis Report (OAR) - This report will help you discover potential crawl and indexing issues. It has little to do with content, and is mostly focused on how search engine-friendly a website is. Criteria might include: checking for broken links and duplicate content, analyzing HTML and XML sitemaps, optimizing robots.txt and .htaccess files, to help crawlers get to the content you want indexed and away from the content you don't. The OAR might also include a review of Webmaster Tools, an audit from your seomoz.org campaign, and possibly data from similar online tools. Basically, your on-page "stuff" goes here.
2. Competitor Analysis Report (CAR) - This is your baseline report, your Day 1, your "aha" moment, where you get to discover some exciting things about your competition, and some occasionally depressing things about your current SEO performance. Having access to Hitwise is the most ideal starting point (if you can afford it). If not, tools such as Compete.com, SEMRush, KeywordCompetitor, and OpenSiteExplorer.org can give you really nice insight into where your competitors are earning links, what keywords they are getting traffic from (AdWords and natural search), and even tell you how much more money they spent on specific keywords last month versus the month prior (a keyword performance indicator). For local businesses, WhiteSpark's Local Citation Finder does a darn good job of finding competitor business citations and sorting them by seomoz.org's own Domain Authority for easy prioritizing.
3. Link Analysis Report (LAR) - This report is fun. Using tools like those in the seomoz.org arsenal, or possibly giving Ontolo a spin, you'll be seeking out and creating an organized inventory of link opportunities. Categorize your opportunities by classifications such as: Web Directory, Business Directory, Industry Blog, Regional Blog, Industry Portal, Industry Forum, Industry Experts, Niche Social Networks, and so forth. From here you have a few choices of how to store the information. I prefer Buzzstream, an Eric Ward-approved link tracking software, but Google Docs will do the job as well. If you do use a Google spreadsheet, break your classifications into their own tabs or link building becomes unmanageable.
4. Keyword Discovery Report (KDR) - You'll already have a boatload of data from the first three reports to help with this, possibly the most important, report. You can also explore a number of other tools to help tally up all the keyword opportunities. WordTracker and Google AdWords will provide some excellent ideas, but nothing will beat what you'll find in your own web analytics and Webmaster Tools (provided you are actually tracking conversions and/or sales). With competitor data, you can run pivot tables in Excel to learn about the frequency of keywords the major competitors appear to be receiving traffic from. Purge out the terms that are too broad or not searched enough to be bothered with, sort by relevancy and search volume and you've got yourself a list of keywords to optimize for.

Now that you have all this terrific data, what the heck do you do with it? Here's where actionable items or deliverables come into play.

1. Put your OAR items into a To-Do List within your project management system (under the milestone of On-Page SEO)
2. Put your CAR items into a Google spreadsheet so you can track and monitor changes over time
3. Put your LAR classifications into one or more To-Do List within your project management system (under the Off-Page SEO milestone), put the opportunities into a spreadsheet or Buzzstream
4. Put your KDR into a Google Docs spreadsheet, create a new tab called Content Tracking Spreadsheet with a column for just the top 100 or so keywords, and create columns to track Page Name, Title, Meta Description, Has Video?, Image Name, Image Attributes, Has 450+ words of Content? Matt Cutts Didn't Throw Up, Is Engaging? etc. In your PM system, your content writing tasks can be assigned (put the list under the On-Page SEO milestone)

Now that the technical stuff is done, you get to start the creative and social media campaign planning. Pull a group of super smart people into a room for a full day and come out with awesome link bait, widget, tools/giveaways, and other creative link building strategies to add under your respective milestones.

Milestone 2 - On-Page SEO (2 Months)

There are thousands of smart (and sometimes silly) things you can do to optimize your website. You already have a To-Do List assigned in your project management system to square away OAR findings, and a To-Do List for your content team based on the keyword themes you want to optimize for. This initial phase of your SEO shouldn't take more than 60-90 days and typically isn't rocket science.

You're going to get all sorts of new ideas from the seomoz.org blog, Search Engine Land, SEO Roundtable, and thousands of Tweets if you follow #seo in Twitter. Therefore, if you're using a project management system, your template will be growing and growing over time.

Local and Ecommerce websites will have a few special To-Do Lists for data feed optimization, location-based landing pages, and a few other things you might extract from David Mihm's Local Search Ranking Factors or elsewhere.

Milestone 3 - Off-Page SEO (3 Months for the Basic Tasks, 6 for Moderate)

Mike Essex wrote an excellent post awhile back on 99 Ways to Build Links by Giving Stuff Away. I also like to use my Meetup.com group to have everyone provide 1-3 creative link building ideas to everyone who requests ideas, along with some crowd-sourcing tools, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and similar services. Choose the top ideas based on the business and industry and add them to an Advanced SEO To-Do List in your project management system. You will definitely need to create several project briefs for each idea so it makes sense to the tech and marketing teams.

I keep a Google spreadsheet going that has nearly 400 link building opportunities now (thank you Eric Ward).

You'll also have a list for Basic Link Building (industry destinations and directories), Moderate Link Building (outreach, and slightly more technical than submission-based linking). Advanced link building tasks are really more of an initiative and can be tracked outside of the the project management system as ongoing marketing innovation.

Milestone 4 - Social Media Optimization (1 Month for Setup)

This milestone gets a bit tricky and requires getting in bed with those crazy socialmedia people we all love. Perform an audit of all the current destinations our SMM teams are working with and insure they all contain relevant keywords, profile links, and (if location-based) business name, address, and phone number.

Next, seek out new social media opportunities, such as niche social destinations, popular social networks that have not been claimed yet (Google+ might be a good start). You might even buy lunch for the social team, and then try to give them training on how to blog with keyword-rich links every so often. If their eyes start going crazy as if you fed them after midnight, run away and try again another day. If not, train your social team, in distributing content, video, and micro-blogging to give you a serious lift in ranking. The trick is to make them think it was all their idea.

Milestone 5 - Video & Mobile (2 Months for Setup)

Technically, you can break video and mobile into two different milestones. But for the sake of the novel this post has become, let's bundle them together. For video, I recommend having a quick chat or consult with a pro, such as Mark Robertson of ReelSEO on campaign, channel and distribution ideas. Get ready to setup some video XML sitemaps and to start distributing video to relevant sharing networks. Also be prepared to start using video ads (PPC), which may help long term placement on key YouTube videos.

For mobile, you'll want to slip ONE task in for Milestone 2, insuring your mobile users have a custom experience that's mind-blowing and award winning. The rest will revolve around the creation of mobile apps for your products, mobile search optimization, and possibly even a few short code campaigns. We love Vegas, so I'm always excited to get my MB SMS offers from Mandalay Bay).

I've Completed My Milestones, Now What?

If you get through all the milestones (6-12 months on average - some might overlap, but they don't have to), your project management system should be empty of tasks. If so, you're no longer in Production Mode, you're now in Operations Mode and need only use your link and campaign tracking tools (here's a sample) for your day-to-day SEO initiative. However, you may elect to start over and repeat the entire process annually, depending on the results from the first round.

Now you have 5-6 vehicles of SEO in an organized form. You may decide to create a page for each milestone on your yellow notepad when you attend SEO conferences and events. If a presenter gives you some cool "stuff" to do, you should be able to easily classify the task into one of these buckets, so later you can update your project management template, as though you were putting another piece into a seemingly endless puzzle; which beats the heck out of creating scribble for your crumble ball with beautiful coffee rings on it.

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White Hat Organic Search Engine Optimization Strategies

White Hat Organic Search Engine Optimization Strategies

In order to get more visitors to your website, and convert these visitors to buyers increasing the sales of your products or services, you need to be on the first page of search engines result pages. The big question now is. Are you on the first page? If your answer is NO, then we have all you need to get you there. We have developed and tested the best white hat organic search engine optimization strategies which guarantee your website a first page ranking on your chosen keywords. This strategy does not only get you to the top of the first page, but they also make sure that you stay at the top.

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1. Professional SEO Services

2. Organic SEO Services

3. Ethical SEO Strategies

4. Search Engine Marketing Services

5. Search Engine Optimization

6. Seo Marketing

7. Google Search Marketing

8. Search Marketing Company

9. Online Search Marketing

10. Digital Marketing Agency/Company

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Search engine optimization generally abbreviated SEO is a process whereby a website's or webpage's visibility is improved in search engines' organic search results. There are basically two ways to optimize a site for better search results. Onsite SEO-involves working on the website's or webpage's content, Meta tag, Meta description, and image titles, descriptions and Others Meta tags to make them more search engine friendly and hence search engine optimized. Offsite SEO on the other hand involves more on the interaction of your site with other sites and generally through linking the site's pages to other website pages with related or unrelated content depending on some considerations such as page rank, and traffic rank. But to be frank, there isn't any magic solution or approach that works for all websites. That is why we will analyze your site, its pages and content, keywords as well as your competitor's so as to create a unique and well-informed strategy specifically for you to ensure your search engine optimization campaign is an utmost success.

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What are the Best Keyword Rank Checker Today?

Keyword Rank Tracking is an Essential part of every Online Marketing Campaign. It's especially important to all SEO Professional who work on Search Engine Optimization Project. Rank Tracker retrieves search engine rankings for pages and keywords, Some tools also track selected rankings over time to see which efforts are making the most impact on your SEO Campaign and show you the ranking changes.

Now, there are  a lot of free and paid rank checker out there that help SEO Professionals to track keyword rankings. Some tools that work great at certain tasks but terrible at others. Before Writing this post, I did a lot of Research to bring you the Best Keyword Rank Checker for your SEO Project.

Moz Pro

In the Moz Pro plan, you can run up to five different campaigns at the same time. Because Moz limits the number of keywords you can track per campaign to 60, that totals 300 keywords you can track overall five campaigns, which can be limiting if you're running campaigns with different themes or that span multiple verticals. Rank tracking is thorough, though, with competitive analysis baked right in; you can see where you rank for your top keywords as well as where your top competitors rank.

Price: Moz Pricing Plan Start From $99 to $499 /month and the also offer a 30-day free trial.

SEMrush

SEMrush's Pro version offers keyword suggestion and keyword rank tracking. Using SEMrush, you can track up to 500 keywords over five campaigns. The tools available for keyword research can display a keyword's search volume and help you gauge how well a keyword will perform on your site. The phrase match report will show you keywords related to prime keywords that can also help drive traffic to your site, but they may be less competitive, so it will be more possible to rank with them.

Price: $69.95 – $549.95 / month

Advanced Web Ranking

Advanced Web Ranking allows you to closely monitor your keyword's performance and Rank Tracking from three different search engines: Google, Bing, and Yahoo. You can easily sort your keyword information to see how each of these search engines views your keywords. This is useful because, while you may be hitting all of Google's targets, you may be weak in Bing's search results and missing key traffic flows from them.

Price: $49 – $499 / month, also offer FREE 30 day trial on all plans..

Ahrefs

Ahref's provides estimated keywords ranking data for keyword sets on both Google and Bing/Yahoo in multiple countries (US, UK, AU, DE, FR, ES, IT, BR, RU). The tool shows following information:

• Position 
• Keyword 
• CPC 
• Estimated cost 
• Ranking URL 
• Global search volume A
• dvertiser competition 
• Last date checked 
• Rating (estimated visitors per month based on assumed traffic distribution)

Price: $79 – $1,299 / month, and the also offer a free NEWBIE plan.

Link-Assistant Rank Tracker

Link-Assistant Rank Tracker Feature:

• Automatically check your search engine rankings.
• Show if your site moved up or down in search results: Every time you check your keywords search engine rankings, Rank Tracker will conveniently show you the ranking difference so you can easily see if your site has moved up slipped for whatever reason.
• Collect data from 456 different search engines: Rank Tracker supports 456 international and local search engines so you can track your rankings using the ones that matter most to you. The currently supported SEs include Google, Yahoo! and Bing with their localized versions plus hundreds of others!

Price: Free – $124 - $299 / month (one time cost – this is desktop software)

WebCEO

WebCEO Rank Tracker Feature:

370+ Global & Local Search Engines Rank Checking: You'll be able to check keyword rankings on more than 370 global and local search engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Goo, Voila, Seznam, Rediff, and more.

Search Engine Mobile Rankings vs. Desktop Search Results: Set Web CEO Rank Tracker to monitor both desktop and mobile rankings: go to settings and add the mobile versions of every search engine that you target.

Automated Rank Checks on Schedule: Automate your rank checks with Web CEO: have them monitored quarterly, monthly, weekly.

Email Alerts about Website Ranking Changes: Set email alerts regarding website ranking changes that occur above configured levels. You can be notified if one of your keywords left the top positions, a keyword lost more than a specified number of positions, your competitors' positions improved, etc.

YouTube Rank Checker: You can add YouTube.com as a standalone search engine in your WebCEO Rank Checker settings and start tracking your YouTube rankings.

Competitor Ranking Analysis: See if your competitors have better search engine rankings for the keywords that you target. Just add the URLs of competing websites in the Competitor section of the WebCEO Rank Checker settings.

Price: $75 – $375/ month (Discounts available), also offer a limited free plan.

AuthorityLabs

What Does Authority Labs Do?

• Tracking keywords daily 
• Tracking Google, Bing, and Yahoo SERPs 
• Viewing estimated search volume (via a bar graph) for your tracked keywords 
• Selecting a location all the way down to the zip code 
• Viewing daily ranking charts for a selected keyword 
• Exporting PDF reports for monthly, weekly, quarterly, *since added* date, and/or daily 
• Comparison reports Comparing rankings against a competitor 
• Sharing a public URL with a client for their project 
• Exporting one domain or an entire account history in CSV format as part of a backup process 
• Producing white label reports

Price: $75 – $99/ month (Discounts available), also offer a limited free plan.

Raven Tools

Raven's Rank Tracker lets you view average keyword ranking data that comes directly from Google and Bing. You have access to Impressions and Click Through Rates (CTRs), helping you to target high value keywords for a quicker SEO win. You'll be able to show clients progress over time as you work your way through the best keyword choices based on conversion potential.

Price: $99 – $249 / month, and offer a 30 day limited free plan.

Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis keyword ranking reports allow you to see how your site is progressing using graphs and charts. These reports can be viewed online or exported as CSV and PDF files.

Price: $97 / year, also offer a free plan.

Market Samurai

Market Samurai's rank tracker allows you to view your site's keyword progress as graphs, which clearly show increases and decreases in traffic. It also stores historical data on your keywords and your URLs so you can continuously view their progression. After viewing your reports, you can export data about any of your keywords as a CSV, where you can analyze it using Excel.

Price: One Time Fee $149 and also offer a free limited edition.

Positionly

Positionly Track your keywords ranking results on the local or global market, depending on your needs. You can track everything in the most popular search engines - Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.

Analyze your progress on a daily basis and understand how rankings affect your growth.

Price: Plan starts from $16 - $84/month, has a 14-day free trial.

SERPs

International keyword rankings: SERPs Check keyword rankings positions in Google or Yahoo from over 100 country and language combinations. SERPs free rank checker can lookup rankings in dozens of countries. Use it to spot check keyword rankings anytime.

Mobile keyword rankings: Select mobile or desktop rankings. If mobile is selected, SERPs also highlight if Google is showing the "Mobile-friendly" tag next to a URL. If you want to track mobile rankings at a larger scale, read more about our mobile rank tracking solution.

Local keyword rank checker: See rankings from specific cities or zip codes. Check one keyword in a hundred different cities.

SERP checker: SERPs tool will return the top 250 SERP results for any given keyword if the site field is left blank. That way you can see what sites rank in the top 250 for any SERP.

Price: Plan starts From $497 - $1,997 / month and a Full Featured 30-Day Trial.

RankWatch

RankWatch Rank Checker calculates all your keyword rankings accurately and in an instant, whether you have 50 or 50,000 keywords, we will display your current rank, highest rank and Initial rank along with search volumes in top 100 serps.Trackers Track your site rankings on 177 search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing and more using Rankwatch Rank Checker.

Price: Plan starts From $29 - $449 / month and a 14 days free trail.

SERP Scan

SERP Scan Automatically Generates Search Engine Ranking Reports Clients want proof that search engine optimization works for them. Increased rankings are the best way to prove to your clients that your hard work—and their money—is making a positive impact and return on investment for their business. SERP Scan also offer Local Rank Tracking and YouTube Rank Tracking.

Price: Plan starts From $99.99 - $399.99 / month with 30-day money back guarantee.

RankScanner

RankScanner Keep track of your search engine rankings through time, and quickly get an idea of which SEO tactics work the best.

RankScanner Track up to 500 keywords per domain, for an unlimited number of websites. Even monitor your competitors' SEO rankings as well.

Price: Plan starts From 9€ - 49€ /month and FREE for Up to 30 Keywords.







What Keyword Ranking Tools do you use? please drop your recommendation in the comments and I'll add in this list.