Comments on: Tips to Improve Your Local Search Rankings in Google http://www.bostonseo.org/articles/173 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Philip SEO http://www.bostonseo.org/articles/173/comment-page-1#comment-90 Philip SEO Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:03:15 +0000 http://www.bostonseo.org/?p=173#comment-90 Good points regarding regarding SEO for local ranking. I would add these to maximize your local search benefit: (1) Put your full geo address on each page you want to have a high local search ranking; (2) Use all the variations of geo names (in our case this would include MA, Mass and Massachusetts); (3) Include the country to make your location perfectly clear both to site visitors and the search engines (in my case, "138 Larch Road Cambridge" all by itself would be ambigous without the addition of "MA" and "US/USA"). (4) Seek listings in the *local* Yahoo and Bing directories (those are free but subject to approval. Bing Local is currently open only to US-based companies. Good points regarding regarding SEO for local ranking. I would add these to maximize your local search benefit:

(1) Put your full geo address on each page you want to have a high local search ranking;

(2) Use all the variations of geo names (in our case this would include MA, Mass and Massachusetts);

(3) Include the country to make your location perfectly clear both to site visitors and the search engines (in my case, “138 Larch Road Cambridge” all by itself would be ambigous without the addition of “MA” and “US/USA”).

(4) Seek listings in the *local* Yahoo and Bing directories (those are free but subject to approval. Bing Local is currently open only to US-based companies.

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