Austin Local SEO Company - Local Surge Media

Capture qualified business in your neck of the woods

Getting placement on the first page of the search results is powerful, but how useful is it to local businesses? It’s called the world wide web, after all. What does SEO have to do with businesses in your town who sell products and services to people who walk through their front doors?

Quite a bit as it turns out.

Google Maps, Google+ Local, Foursquare, Yelp, and Apple Maps are the new “Yellow Pages.” Today’s consumers throw their phone books in the garbage, preferring to turn to their laptop, tablet, or smartphone for the answer. When you can get user reviews and driving directions at the touch of a button, why wouldn’t you?

If you want your local consumers to find you, you can expect massive results from local SEO. These are consumers that are already searching for products and services like yours, and looking for a place in their area to find them. Is there a better type of potential customer?

Like the traditional search results, local search results aren’t a magic oracle. These search services rely on data scattered throughout the web in order to determine which restaurants, retailers, and companies are most noteworthy.

Are you ready to dominate your market?

Our custom SEO solutions:

Drives client’s to the top of organic & local map rankings
Presents client’s as leading industry experts
Seamlessly integrates with client’s current design and branding
Translates across all smart devices and tablets

How Local SEO Works

Relevancy

Establishing relevancy in the local search results starts with a content strategy grounded in solid keyword research, but also includes insuring consistency in all directory listings and citations. This means that extra care is required to make sure that everywhere your business address is cited, the citations are exactly the same down to the placement of the punctuation; whether it be on your Google profile, your webpage, your Yelp listing, or on any of the other multitude of online directories. Consistency is far more important for local search, because if the address is cited inconsistently, the search engine will be skeptical about your true location. It’s equally important to choose the correct business category for your profile, so that the search engines will be able to accurately determine the most relevant consumers for your listing. If the search engine is confident about your true location, as well as your business category, they will then be confident in serving your company’s listing in the search results and driving directions they provide to your ideal customers.

Authority

Google analyzes many factors, such as the number and quality of links to your website and your social media activity, among other things, to determine how authoritative your website is when establishing your website’s organic search rankings. This is clearly a factor in their determination of your rankings in the local listings as well. Google also uses citations of your business such as mentions of its address, business name, and phone number. The number and quality of user reviews is is also a crucial factor, as is the activity surrounding your Google+ Local profile. Clearly generating this kind of buzz isn’t a skill that comes easily.

Quality

Leaks of internal Google documents have made it clear that human raters are analyzing social profiles, including Google+ Local pages, according to the same standards as websites. This means that the search engines expect you to produce high quality content and interact with your consumers via your local profile. A high quality local profile takes time, effort, and experience; but the high quality profiles are the ones that get the top spots in the local search results.

We approach local SEO with the same effort and skill that we bring to traditional SEO. Local optimization requires a combination of effective marketing and technical prowess. But, local SEO is not just about search results. It is about strengthening your existing customer relationships and about building the trust you need to grow your business.