Local SEO

For many businesses, having an online presence is crucial, as long as you are optimising your website to reach the intended audience. For businesses that operate online – or where the location is not a deciding factor in influencing a purchase decision – optimising your website to reflect this will help you reach the largest […]

Google Maps marketing – and the way your business appears on Google Maps in general – is increasingly important as mobile and location-based searches continue to grow in number. If you have a bricks-and-mortar business, an optimised Google Maps listing is essential to provide accurate information to nearby customers, who might prefer to shop locally […]

Local SEO is the process of improving technical, content, and offsite factors with a focus on locality to improve rankings in specific areas. One thing that can be used to significantly help this is creating (or optimising) local landing pages. Local landing pages are simply (commercial) webpages with local intent. This means that the page […]

In this post I will explain why it is important that both site owners and SEOs have an understanding of a website’s local search performance. I shall also offer an insight into why you should be tracking both Google My Business and Bing Places for Business. Understanding Google My Business and Bing Places for Business […]

Google initially rolled out its Voice Search feature back in 2012, but in those early days, it was viewed by many as a ‘fad’ that was doomed to failure (like many other Google products that come and go).

Hyperlocal marketing is here to stay, but it’s a term that has been bandied about for around two years now, as anyone working in digital will know. Although hyperlocal marketing has been around far longer in print and on the radio, thanks to mobile technology, it’s only now coming into its own online. For those […]

Last June at SMX, Google announced that the future ‘3 Pack’ would be made up of two organic listings and one sponsored listing, however, Google has recently been testing its new, ad express powered, product in the San Francisco Bay area and it looks like that all of the ‘3 Pack’ are in fact sponsored […]

TL;DR: Google has shaken up how local search works, meaning that businesses that aren’t geographically in the city centres now have more of a chance of appearing in the Map Pack than they did previously. The search engine has also placed greater importance on a user’s physical location, and businesses that share the same address are now […]

Leeds, like many other cities across the world, is continually changing when it comes to what makes up its ‘high street’. In the past this process was quite slow, and shops would last for decades – however, that is no longer the case. In recent years, strong competition from the internet, combined with other commercial […]

This post has been written for companies who want to improve their website’s local performance, whether it be independent stores with an established brick and mortar store, or a national company with a number of branches. Caveat: There are many more factors that will contribute to your local SEO success, however these are some top […]