Top 10 Websites for Dominating Local SEO
While it is difficult to get multiple first page results for your organization you can give potential visitors multiple ways to find your site by leveraging these directories SEO abilities.
1. Search Engine Locals- Google, Yahoo, and Bing all have local services to help consumers find the regional xyz store, organization, etc. These results frequently show up first in SERP’s so register an information rich profile at each service, and dominate.
2. Yellowpages.com- Yellow page listings are as plentiful as those infamous yellow books themselves.
3. LinkedIn- Linked in is a social network for business networking and Linkedin profiles also frequently shows up in regional search results.
4. Merchant Circle- Merchant Circle is a directory of local businesses, and their profiles are quickly indexed, and often rank quite well.
5. Service Magic- Servicemagic.com is a paid directory of service industry professionals. While it does cost money they can get you ranked well in local searches.
6. Yelp.com- Yelp.com is a local business directory that allows local people to review area businesses. These pages do very well in regional SEO.
7. Superpages.com- Superpages.com is another yellowpages type services that ranks well particularly in Bing and Yahoo.
8. Kudzu.com- Kudzu.com is a directory for businesses that specializes in regional search their basic profile is free.
9. CitySearch.com- Citysearch is a city by city overview of businesses, events, etc. Does cost money but great SEO results.
10. Local.com- Local.com is a small business directory that ranks well in SERP’s.
Bonus- Localtype.com has an extensive listing of local directories check it out here.
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@sam you are correct about that I have generated a lot of focused traffic for small businesses with Google Local. But also grab a Yahoo and Bing local account don’t assume your customer is loyal to Google or as tech savvy as you.
I think that Google business listing provides amazing results alone. Is there a correlation between Google Adwords and Google business listing? It seems that times in which I invested a bunch in Adwords, my Google business listing would drop a couple of pegs. Pretty strange, huh.
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@joseph I have not observed that behavior but thats interesting I’ll have to investigate that on some of my campaigns. -will
Great tips. Some people tend to over look the power of local listings and local rankings.
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Very cool list, thanks. I didn’t know some of these existed.
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Timely, I have a potential client requiring local SEO work!
Thanks.
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Bing uses yellowpages.com for as their results in local search. A good tip for people to keep in mind when signing up for local directories is that to select the ones that are a good fit for your business as some tend to overdo it and end up pushing their own website to the 2nd page.
Local search will play a big role this year and staying on top of your own results as well as competitors will keep a company a step ahead of all the rest.
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With Google latest change of SERP layout, getting better local results is now more important than ever. Thanks for that list.
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