At Southtown Web Design, we provide local seo services to make sure your showing up when someone searches you online, and not your competitor down the street.
Nobody Uses The Phone Book Anymore
Remember the good ole days when in order to be in front of your competition, all you had to do is name your business “AAA Auto Shop”. Just as long as you had one A more then your competitor, you’d be at the top of the list because the Yellow pages were in alphabetical order.
Search Engines don’t work like that. Now you have to worry about whether your san antonio website design is setup and optimized properly, so that Google puts you at the top of the list. You will lose your mind trying to find the time to do all that!
In order to compete online in these digital landscapes is by having a solid local seo strategy that can attract your customers to your business and not your competition down the street.
Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way to attract more business from a wider audience from relevant local searches. Whether that be from Google My Business or organically through Google’s search results.
For example: There’s a auto shop in San Antonio that wants to serve it’s customers at their specific location, but don’t care to service areas in Houston, because it’s to far and they wouldn’t be able to service them anyways.
If you’re a local business providing products or services in a specific geographical location, then yes. It would be important for you to implement local SEO services. What does all this mean? It means if your customers come to you or you go to your customers , then you are a “local business” and need Local SEO. Show up for searches near you and not your competitor down the street.
Lots of people are searching for services “near me” or in a specific geographical area. Google’s search engines are now smart enough to know when somebody is searching a auto shop or doctor, that they will probably want one close by.
Before starting any Local SEO service strategy. It’s important to know who your target audience is. Once that’s figured out, the next main step would be:
There are multiple ways of integrating local SEO services. The two main types are “White Hat SEO” and “Black Hat SEO”. Black hat SEO can get you ranking a lot faster, but comes with a risk of Google penalizing your website and possibly removing it completely. All the hard work and money spent building your online presence would be for nothing!
Good for you I only do “White Hat SEO” techniques and you won’t have to worry about losing your hard earned money. These techniques rely heavily on proper Google My Business Optimization, content creation, link building & directory/citation listings. Most importantly great content with highly targeted keyword usage that attracts search engines with the right information your leads need.
If you want to get found a lot easier by your potential customers and see real growth, then yes definitely! Is it competitive? Yes it is, but the sooner you start the better. As SEO is something that takes time to build. Check out my article, “how long does SEO take to work“.
With the right strategy in place and a properly optimized web design, you can be at the the top of the list as well. Everyone deserves a piece of the pie and I’m going to help you get there!
One main aspect to local SEO is having your Google My Business account properly setup and optimized.
Google needs additional information about your business/website to help better relate to the data displayed on your site.
Without KW research you won't really know what your customers are searching for in order to find businesses online.
Get your pages optimized for your main keyword so that Google can put your businesses in front of the right customers.
To build the overall strength and rankings of your website is to have other relavant websites linking back to your site.
Keep your business information consistent for Google and help build your Local Authority.