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July 31st
2013
‘Advanced Onsite Local SEO Techniques’

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‘Advanced Onsite Local SEO
Techniques’
Agenda:
•Single location businesses
•Multi-location businesses

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Areas covered:
•Meta content, tags, images
• Essential landing page elements
• Critical local search signals
• Correct mark-up
• Content & ‘Panda’
• Google Authorship
‘Advanced Onsite Local SEO
Techniques’

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Presentations & Q&A
1. Presentations – 50 mins
2. Q&A – 40 mins
– Post questions in Qu module
– Please keep them ‘on topic’
– Linda will answer some by text
– We’ll try to answer as many as we can
– Un-answered questions posted to LSF

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House keeping…
• Webinar is being recorded
• Recording available in 2-3 days
• No webcam view (boo…)
• Slidedeck uploaded to slideshare.net
• Follow up email with all details

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Polls running…
• We are running 4 Polls during the webinar
• We want to know what’s happening in your
search lives
• Display on your screen at various times
• Fingers on buzzers…60 seconds to
answer
• Results posted at the end

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About ‘InsideLocal’
• BrightLocal & Local Search Forum
• Bi-weekly webinar series
• Hot issues, trends & opportunities
• Great content, excellent speakers
• Advanced, Informative & actionable
• More webinars & dates at the end

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Speakers
Matthew Hunt
smallbusinessonlinecoach.com Mike Ramsey
Niftymarketing.com

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Presenters
Myles Anderson
BrightLocal.com
Linda Buquet
Localsearchforum.com

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Single Location
Optimization
Matthew Hunt
smallbusinessonlinecoach.com
matthew@smallbusinessonlinecoach.com
‘Advanced Onsite Local SEO Techniques’

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www.SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com

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Onpage SEO isn’t calculus!
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How can a single location business rank better in Google?
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What are the ‘Basics’ for Local?
•Keyword Research
•Title Tag
•Meta Description
•Headline (H1 & H2)
•Permalink (slug)
•Body/Content Optimization (local mentions, NAP listed on page)
•Local Markup (schema)
•Review Markup
•Author/Publisher Markup
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Keyword Research
You gotta know what keywords to show up for, so do some
research!
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Keyword Research
Tools
Keyword Planner
From Google
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Google Trends

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Google Suggest & Google Related Terms
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Tools to do this super fast:
http://keywordresearcher.org/
http://ubersuggest.org/

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Kick-ass Free Tool:
http://www.5minutesite.com/local_keywords.php
- Helps make a tone of local
keyword variations, perfect for
Adwords campaigns, but is
good for keyword research too!

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www.SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com
Hi Five!
Now that you
know what
keywords you
want to rank for!

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Title Tags
•Write for humans
•Make it contain Keyword Target
•69 characters (measured in pixels not length)
•Use | or – to separate
•Don’t keyword stuff
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Meta Descriptions
•Has no real ranking power (except CTRs)
•Write for humans, this is your chance to sell the click!
•Make it contain Keyword b/c of bolding SERPs
•155 characters
•Don’t keyword stuff
•Don’t forget about Facebook & Google+
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Pro Tip – Add
phone number
in meta and title
tags b/c it
makes the
phone #
clickable in
mobile SERPs!

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Headlines (H1 and H2 Tags)
• Write for humans,
• Make it attention grabbing
• Make it contain keyword you are targeting
• Make it make sense to your Title Tag (good for
users & Adword’s QS)
• H1’s can replace the Title Tag and can be used
as sitelinks in Google

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Headlines can create sitelink SERP title

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Permalink Structure
Ugly permalink
http://bobsplumbing.com/?p=123
Pretty permalink
http://bobsplumbing.com/licensed-plumber-in-toronto
Note – If you change your permalinks be sure to 301 the old
pages to the new structure so you don’t lose any link juice
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The Body aka – Content
•Don’t keyword stuff!
•Write for humans!
•Use local “hooks” (i.e. local landmarks)
•Use Google related terms for ideas
• Try to have keyword in 1st
sentence
•Try to have keyword in last sentence
•Have local modifiers in content
•Use related terms in content
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Don’t do this!
Put more
effort silly.

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How to Make Location Page’s Content Unique
•Keep sales message above fold
•Case studies
•Driving directions
•Local landmarks & local businesses
•Local sales rep’s bio or employee
•Unique testimonial(s)
•Unique photos, videos, etc
•Local laws or regulations
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Local Markup – With Pin Point Accuracy!
Tell Google and ALL search engines exactly where you are with schema
markup:
<div itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/Plumber”>
<span itemprop=”name”>Bob’s Plumbing</span>
<div itemprop=”address” itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/PostalAddress”>
<span itemprop=”streetAddress”>123 Main Street</span>
<span itemprop=”addressLocality”>Toronto</span>,
<span itemprop=”addressRegion”>ONTARIO</span>
<span itemprop=”postalCode”>M4J1N2</span>
</div>
Phone: <span itemprop=”telephone”>416-777-4545</span>
<a href=”http://googlemapsurl.com” itemprop=”maps”>URL of Map</a>
</div>
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Schema Review Markup
Tell Google about your reviews:
<div itemprop=”review” itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/Review”>
<span itemprop=”name”>Value purchase</span> -
by <span itemprop=”author”>Lucas</span>,
<meta itemprop=”datePublished” content=”2011-03-25″>March 25, 2011
<div itemprop=”reviewRating” itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/Rating”>
<meta itemprop=”worstRating” content = “1″/>
<span itemprop=”ratingValue”>4</span>/
<span itemprop=”bestRating”>5</span>stars
</div>
Get bad boys like this:
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Pro Tip: Run reviews to
rotate on page refreshes to
increase chances of review
markup to show up!

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Where does you eye go?
Author markup rocks!
Do It!
https://plus.google.com/authorship

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Test your mark-up
with the google
rich snippet testing
tool.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

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Let’s Review:
Contributes to rankings:
•Title Tag
•Meta Description
•Headline (H1 & H2)
•Permalink (slug)
•Body/Content Optimization (have keywords in
content, local mentions, etc)
•Local Markup (schema or at least have NAP on
the page)
Contributes to higher CTRs:
•Review Markup
•Author/Publisher Markup

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That’s all she wrote!
Connect with me:
https://twitter.com/smbusinesscoach
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Now you can rock
it with local SEO!

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Multi-Location
Optimization
Mike Ramsey
Niftymarketing.com
mike@niftymarketing.com
‘Advanced Onsite Local SEO Techniques’

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Onsite
For
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Microsite.com?
Megasite.com?
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Keyword Research
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Lots of
Interest
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URL Structure
www.yourbrand.com/
www.yourbrand.com/locations
www.yourbrand.com/locations/state
Hat Tip: Mary Bowling
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For a Multi Location Company….
Use a
Local Landing Page on your
Google Places Listing
Use a
Local Landing Page on your
Google Places Listing
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Then Use your Home Pages OR service pages to rank
organically
A in MapsA in Maps
Organic
homepage
Organic
homepage
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Title Tags + Meta Description
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Title Tags + Meta Description
SMART
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Local
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YES!!!
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TWINS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES
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Website
Markup
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Test a LocationPage
Test a LocationPage
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Review
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Review
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It works
!?!?!?!?!
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Follow Me on Twitter @MikeRamsey
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Questions?

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Unanswered questions…
• Post these on Local Search Forum
• Speakers & Presenters will try to answer as many
as possible
www.localsearchforum.com/showthread.php?t=9353

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InsideLocal: upcoming webinars
• August 14th
– Great sales strategies for local agencies
– Laura Betterley & David Sprague
• September 11th
– Enhanced citation optimization
– David Moceri, Myles Anderson + 1 more (tbc)
• September 25th
– Local Reputation Management
– Don Campbell, Phil Rozek, Myles Anderson
• October 9th
– Google+ Local Advanced Troubleshooting
– Linda Buquet + 2 more (tbc)

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Register here…
www.brightlocal.com/insidelocal
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That’s all folks!