Local Search Engine Optimization: Maximizing Your SEO

Writing by Brick Marketing on Thursday, April 3, 2008

Are you doing everything with your local search engine optimization to ensure that your website goes to the top of the rankings? If you aren´t sure, read on, there are plenty of tips right here to help you figure out what you ought to be doing with local search engine optimization to make your website really work for you.

Headlines: Are your keywords in your headlines? They ought to be. Whether you have a blog or a static site, local search engine optimization will be boosted if you optimize your headlines.

Meta Tags: Be sure to include your keywords in your meta tags for a boost in local search engine optimization.

Links: Using your keywords as anchor text for links can really help your SEO as well. You should also use the keywords in your link titles for a super boost.

Alt Tags: This is the text that appears when a photo or image cannot be displayed. Put your keywords here and your local search engine optimization will really do well.

These are fairly simple tips, but you can really make your site better by including local search engine optimization techniques everywhere. Use your keywords wisely for the best results and watch your site rise in the search engine ranks.

Category: Local Search Engine Optimization

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1 Comment

Comment by Chad Buie

Made Friday, 23 of May , 2008 at 11:09 pm

This is very good, only if people that actually owned businesses locally could find. I am a current developer for Jacksonville, Florida’s Search Engine, FastJax.net, and we are finding that the web pages that we are crawling lack those key concepts. So we are working hard to figure out a better formual to help the local, amaturish websites rank better. Currently we emphasize title tags. They are very effictive in terms of users being able to write them without too much complication. We developed software where can “staple” an extra page for sites that perform poorly in this category, right now we are studying and keeping track of the most popular keywords our users look for and then finding the related sites and trying to work with them locally or calling them to give them the information. Most of the time we just “staple” the page together and write better title tags.

For example:: Jacksonville, Florida Pizza - Coal Fired, Russian Style, Home Cooked Pizza - Jacksonville, Florida Pizza

The simplicty helps in seo for users that are not use to local search engines and users that do not want to stray too far from mother Google.

-Chad-