Replicating competitor backlinks in local SEO, or in other words, finding backlink opportunities from analyzing those of your competitors, can be a valuable strategy to boost your website’s authority and visibility in local search results. To replicate your competitor’s backlinks,…
In the competitive landscape of local SEO, businesses constantly strive to improve their local search ranking so they can attract more potential customers. The local business website with the most relevant quality backlinks ranks first. One of the best ways…
When a local business is not ranking in the Google Maps 3 pack, it can be helpful to look at what your competitors are outranking you doing that you are not. Examining the websites that link to them that are…
I have seen small business owners who have wrecked their Google rankings by getting penalized for using “SEO services” to build links for them. More so with foreign “SEO services,” and I use that title lightly, but even many stateside…
Ten-plus years ago, the more backlinks you had pointing at your website, the better it ranked. But as SEO scamsters learned how to game the system, search engine algorithms have gotten better at detecting artificial spammy backlinks. So today, the…
In the internet world, when one website likes content from another and mentions it, they often link to the content as well; this is a backlink. Search engines see this as the linking website recommending (and even vouching for) the…
Ten-plus years ago, all you had to do for your local business to outrank your competitors was to have more business citations online than they had. Today, business citations do impact local rankings. You absolutely have to have business citations…
Ten-plus years ago, if you just had more structured business citations than your local competitors, regardless of the quality of the sites, you out-ranked them in Google Maps. But this is no longer the case since Google’s algorithm has gotten…
A local business citation is simply any time a local business’s name, address, and phone number (NAP) information is listed anywhere online. If it is in a social media or directory listing profile, it is called a “structured listing.” If…
First, I want to say that while business citations done properly are still a very important part of local SEO, they are not as important as they once were. It used to be that all you had to do was…
