Local SEO Beat Your Competitors, Get More Leads, & Dominate Your Market

Local SEO is one of the best investments you can make in your local business. With Colorstone Marketing’s local SEO services, we help you rank for keywords relating to your products and services. This puts your business in front of local prospects at the exact moment that they’re looking for services that you offer.

To learn more about our local SEO solutions and how they can help your business, book a free consultation with one of our marketing and SEO experts.

About Local SEO

Local SEO services have become complex in recent years. There’s a variety of factors that influence where you stand in the search rankings that aren’t as black and white as you might think. Fortunately we work with dozens of local businesses on improving their flow of leads and position in search engines.

For a free website audit, where we’ll have a professional SEO review your site and give you tips on-video, fill out the quote form on our site or click the “get a free proposal” button at the bottom of the page.

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Local search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your website in a way that makes it easier for search engines to read and makes your business more visible on the web.

It’s not a cookie cutter strategy that’s the same for every business. In fact, its a custom strategy designed by highly skilled SEO’s specifically for your business.

Local SEO is ideal for businesses that sell products or services and have one or more locations. If you want to dominate your local market and you want organic leads and phone calls, then Local SEO is perfect for you.

included with every local seo package

Proven strategy tailored for your business
Citation management: Claiming and retaining your most important listings on the internet
Review management: Getting reviews? Great. We'll reply and help you get more
On-page local SEO: We'll help you claim more local traffic through optimizing your website so it shows up
Local keyword research: Identifying the highest-ROI keyword opportunities
Full-funnel ROI Tracking: Measure ROi, conversions, and make data backed decisions

Website updates: SEO experts update titles, descriptions and other important elements on your site to help you reach more people
GMB posts: Weekly posts with locally optimized terms
Images: Weekly geotagged images to increase location relevance and make your business prominent in the maps
Link building: Regular mentions and links from high-authority websites that catapult your growth

How Local SEO Works

Local SEO is a comprehensive process that takes hands-on work. It can’t be done without a team that knows exactly what they’re doing.

You’ve likely seen SEO companies that offer packages for a few hundred dollars a month. This, unfortunately, doesn’t work.

Here’s why…

There are hard costs involved in SEO. There are tools required, writers, skilled SEO’s, and strategists needed to do it effectively. When a company charges such low amounts, this simply doesn’t leave enough money to do the job.

What you end up with are meager articles posted a few times a month and no notable results. No planning goes into it, nobody’s building backlinks, and nothing improves. It’s a major disservice to the business owner because it wastes your time and money while your competitors are beating you.

Below we’ll discuss a few of the factors that go into local SEO done properly.

Local keyword research

Well thought out keyword research is the basis of every SEO plan. Whether it’s national or local, it doesn’t work without the right keywords.

Simply put, keywords are the words that people are searching for when they type things into Google, Bing, and other search engines. We use tools that show us what people are searching for and how many people are searching for them each month.

With this information, we create content that answers those questions/queries.

For local SEO, these terms may be things like “attorney in Modesto” or “Modesto sporting goods” and things like that. Often the town, city, or state is included in the query because its where the person performing the search is located.

Local SEO is all about showing up when someone searches for a term related to your business, from a local location. It’s extremely important for businesses because these are the people who live near you and can actually come to your shop or use your service.

Google my business set up and optimization

When you search for local businesses, you’ll see the three top listings served under the map at the top of the page.

Those three listings are Google My Business pages. Those listings are the ones that also get many of the phone calls, leads, and sales.

We set up and optimize your Google My Business page as part of your package if you don’t already have one. If you do already have one, we’ll optimize the page for you.

We don’t just optimize with the basic information either. We add photos and multimedia items you provide. We also add plenty of optimized content to your listing to give you a boost in the rankings as well as advise you on getting reviews for your listing.

Optimizing your information on other local sites

We submit your business information to dozens of local sites including Bing, Yelp, CitySearch, Apple Maps, Ezlocal, and a variety of other websites.

For each of these sites, we submit your business name, address, phone number, and a description of your business. These are called local citations and the more you have, the better.

On-site optimization for you local website

One of the early steps we take in the local SEO process is to run your website through a variety of on-page SEO tools and site auditing software. This tells us exactly what you have and what you’re missing on your website. Some of the things we often discover on local websites are:

Missing title tags
Improper site structure
Missing meta descriptions
Duplicate title tags
Lack of proper keywords in the body
etc.

Those are just a few of the issues we run into which probably doesn’t mean a whole lot to you because it’s technical. But these are metrics that search engines pay attention to and it’s important to get all of these items properly optimized. Fortunately, we perform all on-site optimizations for you.

We go through your site with a fine-toothed comb to find the on-page elements that are out of order and we fix them. Your site is the foundation for any SEO strategy so it’s imperative that we keep it healthy. That’s what our on-site optimizations do for you.

NAP information

NAP stands for name, address, and phone number

This is the process of submitting your name address and phone number information to directory sites and other business websites around the web. When we submit this information for your website, it gives you citations. these are also referred to as local citations.

Essentially what these are is a record of your business information stored on other websites around the internet. Google crawls these websites and verifies that your name address and phone number information is accurate.

The more of these local citations you have the better. They’re a ranking factor in Google Maps as well as helping your organic local listings in the search results.

At Colorstone Marketing, we take the time to build local citations with proper name address and phone number. We also clean up citations that are not accurate in order to improve your local search rankings.

Additionally, we ensure the proper NAP information is included on your website in the key areas.

Local content writing

As you’ve probably heard, content is king. This is especially true when it comes to ranking for search terms both on a national and local SEO level.

However, writing the content can be very difficult.

Producing quality content takes time to actually sit down and write the content, the ability to write in a conversational tone, and knowledge of on-page SEO. You also have to research the topic, find the relevant subtopics, and build the post or landing page on your website.

Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about this when you hire us.

We use our dedicated team of writers to produce content for your website. All content is completely original to your website, based on keyword research, and designed to make your website show up when potential clients are looking.

Every piece of content we put on your website is part of a greater strategy. We use the proper markup, article structure, conversational tone, as well as make topics engaging and understandable for your audience.

On-page SEO

There are multiple elements under the blanket term “SEO” which all need to be in check. Both on-page and off-page SEO have to be used. But what is on-page SEO? On-page SEO has its own set of technical rules that you need to follow in order to be successful. We handle all the on-page SEO stuff for you. Below are just a few of the things included…

Keyword optimization

Writing content is only the beginning. When we create content, whether blogs or pages on your site, it’s always a part of the overall strategy. We make sure your content is about topics people are searching for and make sure it has the proper keywords and subtopics within the content. This includes not only the words we want to show up for but synonyms and related terms as well.

Title optimization

Captivating titles get people to click on your page when it shows up. We also make sure our target keyword is contained in the title. In addition to great titles, we take the time to craft well-written descriptions designed to encourage more people to click on your listing.

Content & content updates

Publishing new content and regularly updating your content is key to keeping your results on top. We update your content several times throughout the year and republish to ensure you always have the most relevant and timely information on your site. Google loves this and it’s proven to help rankings.

Image alt tags

Google can’t see what your pictures are so it’s important to include relevant alt text on every image. We go through your entire media library and add proper image descriptions to each image on your site. When the images are relevant to the topic being covered by your page, they increase the value of that page. When there’s no alt text, Google basically ignores them making them far less valuable.

Monthly traffic reports

Website visitors are what SEO is aiming to increase because more traffic equals more calls and leads when done properly. Each month we’re closely monitoring your traffic and adjusting our strategy to produce the best results.

Monthly Google My Business reports

Similar to monitoring your traffic, we pay attention to your GMB visitors and send you a report of that as well.

How can local SEO positively impact your business?

Did you know that 30% of mobile searches are related to location and 72% of those who did the search visited a local business?

Local SEO is the most important factor in getting those people into your business. Even if you’re running ads for those search terms, having your business as the top ad spot, top Google Maps, and top organic means you’re dominating for your terms and you will get the vast majority of the business in your area.

There’s a reason companies like Yelp, Thumbtack, and Homeadvisor target local terms. They want organic visitors so they can sell you the leads. They’re using local SEO as their strategy and they’re making billions which shows you just how well local SEO can work.

By optimizing your business’s local site, you can climb to the top and get the leads directly into your business. And right now most local businesses don’t leverage local SEO which provides huge opportunities for businesses that are willing to invest in themselves.

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