Local Seo Tactics And Digital Marketing Strategies

In this episode, Jesse, Sue and Bob discuss whether or not there is a certain threshold for “enough” GMB reviews, and whether you can reach a point where it would be best to move energy and funding towards other marketing goals. Asking for reviews can often be uncomfortable, but it’s incredibly important to your business! Reviews attract new customers and can positively affect your engagement and SEO.  Whether it’s big or small, if you have a question, we’d love to hear it! Visit us at https://www.localseotactics.com/questions/ to leave us a question! What you’ll learn Why getting reviews on any platform (Yelp, Facebook) can help your SEO ranking. How using an automated review platform can make your job much easier. Why keeping yourself ahead of your competitors with reviews is important! View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/should-i-stop-getting-reviews-for-my-gmb-after-i-hit-my-target-number/  

In today's solo episode, Jesse uses Intrycks' website and GMB as a test case to show the effectiveness of BrightLocal's local search grid tool. He shows that by using BrightLocal's tracking metrics, you can create actionable goals for your SEO and monitor your progress towards those goals. This episode highlights the importance of finding meaningful, actionable metrics for your SEO growth and why it's important to have the right tools to track them. Check this episode out today! What you’ll learn What steps to take to improve your SEO, and how BrightLocal can guide those steps. How to make sense of BrightLocal reports. Why it's important to have actionable information to guide your SEO efforts. View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/getting-our-gmb-to-rank-higher-for-our-local-niche-day-45-update/    

In today's episode, Bob, Jesse and Sue explain how a local SEO focus can benefit a national (or even global) campaign! Having the ability to deploy a message locally allows you to connect with people your larger message may have missed, allowing you to "think globally and act locally."  Do you have questions for the team? Visit us at localseotactics.com/questions and let us know! We're here to help. Thanks for listening! What you’ll learn Why a national campaign may miss a local audience. How having a local team in place can increase visibility for your message. Why a local SEO focus can benefit even your large business! View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/how-can-local-seo-help-large-companies-who-typically-focus-on-national-branding-campaigns/

The Google page experience update is upcoming, and Bob and Jesse are here to help you understand what that means for you, your website, and your SEO! The Google page experience algorithm update focuses on a number of factors for your website, including website speed, security, and mobile compatibility, that could potentially affect your Google rankings! Jesse and Bob offer a number of insights and tips to prepare you for the changes and make sure that your SEO continues to be optimized for the future. Additionally, we're still open for questions for Schema expert Terry Samuels. Whether you're looking for basic information about Schema or advanced tips and tricks, visit us at localseotactics.com/schema to ask your questions! Thank you for listening! What you’ll learn How does the new page experience affect your page and ranking Why it's important to pay attention to the new criteria for ranking What you can do to prepare for the change View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the

Are you looking to switch hosting companies, but you're worried that perhaps your current web host could be resentful of the switch? In this episode, Bob, Jesse and Sue walk you through how to switch website hosting, and the important points to consider when migrating your website to protect your website and make the transition as smooth as possible.   What you’ll learn How moving your website to a large-scale server can provide benefits to your website and company. What important aspects to keep in mind when migrating your website to a new host. Why your website is not one of the places you want to cut corners on your business expenditures. View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/how-do-i-protect-against-a-resentful-web-host-sabotaging-my-website-when-i-switch-hosting-companies/    

In today's episode, Sue and Jesse answer another listener question! Have you gone through, or are planning to go through, a website overhaul? Whether you're looking for a facelift or to migrate providers, you want to make sure your SEO remains in place and that all of your hard-earned SEO gains and ranking stick. We give you tips for combing over your website to make sure that all of your hard work continues to pay off! Do you have questions for the team? Visit us at localseotactics.com/questions to submit a question for us to answer on our show. If you submit an audio question we use on the show, we could send you a free Intrycks shirt!  Click that play button today for great tips and check us out at localseotactics.com for resources to help your business get found online. What you’ll learn How to maintain your website's SEO through a transition. What tools are effective in helping you track and maintain your websites structure. Why it's important to validate your links after a transition. View the show no

On this episode of Local SEO Tactics, Bob and Jesse discuss an array of tools available to find broken links on your website, and the value of fixing these links to helping your search engine rankings. Depending on your industry and the complexity of your website, you may have to comb for broken links on your website more often. With these tools, this task will be made way less daunting!   What You'll Learn:   Why it’s important to check for dead links regularly. What tools are available to check for those links. How removing dead links can improve your website’s search engine ranking! View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/how-to-find-broken-links-on-your-website/

On this episode, Sue and Jesse discuss how to maximize ROI on your website by making focused changes based in intent! Your website could be one of your biggest earners with a little sweat equity and some changes based on an intent-based approach. In no time, with the right content, your website could transform your business.   Do you have questions for us? We’re here to provide answers! If you leave us a voice mail, you could get a free Intrycks t-shirt if we use that audio on the show. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the show.   What you’ll learn How a lack of awareness of what your website could be doing for your business could be costing you! What value adding simple videos to your website could provide. Why approaching your website with intent is key to maximizing its potential.   View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/how-can-your-website-work-harder-for-you-in-2021/

On today's episode, Bob and Jesse discuss dead links on your website, and how a broken link can significantly impact your engagement rates and search ranking! The pair discuss how to identify broken links, how to make sure links are routing properly, and more.  Also, there is still time to get questions in for an upcoming interview with Schema expert Terry Samuels! Don't miss this opportunity to pick the brain of an expert. Whether you're asking something advanced or simply want to know more beginner-level answers, the field is open for questions.  Thanks for checking us out, and enjoy the show! What you’ll learn How to identify broken links. What to do to reroute link paths to repair broken links and keep traffic flowing! Why dead links can negatively impact your bounce rate and search engine ranking! View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/dead-links-how-to-fix-a-broken-link-on-your-website/    

On today's Q&A episode, Bob, Jesse, and Sue offer an answer to the question "What is EAT?" They examine how to use EAT for SEO, and ways that you can gain expertise, authority, and trustworthiness for your business so you can climb up the rankings! We are always looking for questions! Visit us at localseotactics.com and leave us your question through our contact form, through email, or even a voice mail. If you leave a voice mail we use on the show, we'll send you a free Intrycks t-shirt! Thanks for checking us out! What you’ll learn What EAT is and what it's important to your rankings. How to gain EAT to improve your rankings. Where to begin developing EAT online to help your website. View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/what-is-eat-and-how-does-it-impact-your-website-seo/  

In today's episode of Local SEO Tactics, Bob and Jesse discuss how to gauge success for your SEO ROI. If you're wondering how to measure real world success for your marketing ROI, this episode includes useful tips for creating productive measurements for tracking your progress and getting the most out of your SEO investments.   What you’ll learn How to use gauge success of your SEO in generating leads for your business. How to read the data you're given by various tools to find your niche in your market. What tools to use to effectively measure your SEO gains. View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/how-to-gauge-real-world-success-and-roi-for-your-seo-efforts/    

It is once again Q&A time with Bob, Jesse and Sue, and this time we're exploring how to repurpose website articles to use as Google My Business posts! We explain how you can repurpose a single piece of content across multiple platforms to improve your SEO ranking and generate content for your business. We also take a moment to plug our own Content Accelerator services if you're in need of someone to help you generate and schedule content. As always, if you have questions for us, let us know! If you leave us a voice mail question you could win an Intrycks t-shirt if we use that question on the show! Thank you for listening, and enjoy the program. What you’ll learn - How to repurpose content for Google My Business use and beyond. - Why it is important to alter your content just a little bit to avoid duplicate content penalties. - The advantages of keeping a content schedule to create consistency and improve efficiency.   View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version

In this episode, Jesse and Bob introduce you to BrightLocal’s local search grid and how you can use that knowledge to improve your gmb map ranking!! Through using information obtained through this feature, you can create actionable plans to improve your google my business map ranking!   We would also like to tell folks about our upcoming online SEO courses! Though our beta signup is now closed, you can visit localseotactics.com/courses to sign up to be notified when courses begin! Folks who sign up as early adopters will enjoy a special bonus, so if you’ve been thinking of improving your SEO skills, whether you’re an agency or a small business owner, consider our courses.   Finally, our upcoming schema-based interview with Terry Samuels is coming up soon! Visit localseotactics.com/schema to ask Terry a question and get your answers from an expert.   Listen today for more great information and opportunities to engage. Thank you for checking us out!   What you’ll learn How to use a local search grid to make a

On today's episode, Jesse, Bob and Sue discuss making your website work for you by improving your web presence! Through treating your web pages as a member of your sales team, presenting goods and services, rather than an online brochure which simply explains your company, you can generate business almost 24/7!  If you have a question for us, don't hesitate to reach out! You could win an Intrycks t-shirt if we use your question on the show! Listen today! And thank you for checking us out. What you’ll learn What are the advantages of having a strong web presence? How to treat your website as a sales tool rather than an online brochure. Why you should care about your web presence, even if you more traditionally generate business through word of mouth or other means. View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/treat-your-website-like-its-part-of-your-sales-team/

Google has released an update to their search engine algorithm! But what does a Google Algorithm Update mean for your business? Don't panic, Bob and Jesse are here to help you understand how to learn what's different after the update, and how to use a variety of tools to address changes in your SEO and search engine rankings!   Also, we're looking for listener feedback on our upcoming SEO courses. Visit us at localseotactics.com/courses to take an extremely brief survey regarding what sort of courses you would be interested in, and also take advantage of the opportunity to sign up to be a beta student for our courses! Take part in shaping these learning tools, and take advantage of learning more for yourself to help your business thrive.   Check out this episode today! Thanks for listening.   What you’ll learn The importance of taking notice when an algorithm update happens! Using PageOptimizer Pro to get an idea of how the landscape looks after an algorithm update. How long after an algorithm update do you

In this episode, our resident Client Success Specialist, Sue Ginsburg, brings us a great listener question from across the pond regarding defining your service area listing order in Google My Business. Jesse and Bob dive into best practices for defining your GMB service area listing, how your listings represent your business, and more. If you have questions for us, contact us today! If we use your question on the show, you may be eligible to receive a free t-shirt!   What you’ll learn GMB uses standard geographic measurements (county, state, city) to allow you to define your service area. How you list your service areas does not necessarily affect your SEO. Be truly representational of your service area. Don’t expand your zone beyond where you serve! Pick bigger cities to define your boundary to help your SEO. View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version at https://www.localseotactics.com/service-area-gmb-listings-does-it-matter-which-order-you-list-your-service

In this episode, Bob and Jesse are encouraged by a recent client interaction to share the incredibly useful free Google My Business alerts that you may not be taking advantage of! These Google My Business notifications offer email notifications and alerts which can inform you of numerous potential client interactions that can be transformed into actionable metrics for your company! Also, we want to invite you to participate as a student in the beta version of our online courses! You benefit with free access to our courses and the ability to help shape and improve these courses for future users.  Check this episode out today for great tips and more! What you’ll learn How to turn your alerts on for your Google My Business page. What sort of information you can access in your GMB alerts. The advantages of using Google's personalized insights. The value of experimenting with these free reports to find data that's right for you! View the show notes, resource links, episode transcript, and watch the video version

In this episode, Bob and Jesse are once again joined by Sue Ginsburg to explore the value of tracking metrics for your business. The trio discuss the importance of creating baseline metrics for your marketing and SEO goals to create a tangible direction for your tracking, and the need to define success by your business needs in the moment to avoid being deceived by vanity metrics. By using metrics properly, you can be sure you're getting a reasonable ROI and that you're allocating time and money correctly! We are also looking for your questions! Use the contact form to send us a message or leave us a voice mail with a question you think could help your business to have answered. If we use your voice mail question on the show, you are eligible for a free Intrycks shirt! A snazzy incentive.  What you'll learn: How to identify which metrics are right for your business. The crucial difference between vanity metrics and useful metrics. The importance of setting a metrics baseline View the show notes, resource li

In this episode, Bob and Jesse discuss insecure content and how it affects your ranking in Google search and beyond. Website security is one of the few ranking factors that Google is transparent about, and something you may not often think about. That's why we are taking the time to walk you through the process of identifying insecurities in your page, and how to address them! We are also asking our viewers and listeners to let us know if they have any Schema questions for expert Terry Samuels. Mr. Samuels appeared on a recent episode to discuss Schema, and will be returning in the near future to address listener questions and help you better understand schema and how to use it! So be sure to submit your questions to make the most of this opportunity. Download and listen today to learn more! What you’ll learn Website security is a ranking factor for your website. Identifying insecure elements of your page is a breeze if you know how to look. We can help you find those elements and fix them with a few simpl

This week, Bob and Jesse are joined by sales expert Sue Ginsburg to explore the importance of using metrics and data to track SEO performance and your business goals! The team explores the need to define success in a way which can be tracked, whether those goals are in marketing, sales, or SEO performance, and the usefulness of using data to determine what is working and what isn't in pursuit of those goals and your SEO progress.   We would also like to remind our audience that we are opening the floor for questions! We would love to hear your burning questions in audio form, so check us out at localseotactics.com for more information on how to contact us. If we use your question in an episode, we send you a free Intrycks t-shirt! Not a bad deal.   What you’ll learn The Importance of setting goals which can be tracked with meaningful measurements of progress. How utilizing data and metrics can reveal surprising avenues for your business to explore and take advantage of. The advantages of evidenced-base