How Is Your Local Business Website Graded by Google?
Google grades your website based on several factors, Here are some of the most important factors:
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How Many Links You Have
- Links are extremely important and are sometimes the only reason your competitor ranks over you. One great way of getting more backlinks is by guest posting to other relevant websites. Here is a list of sites that accept guest posts.
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Page speed
- How fast your website loads makes a difference in whether Google will want to show your website or not. We can help speed it up and get you on our ultra-fast servers.
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Mobile Friendliness
- If your business website is not mobile-friendly, if not, Google could be penalizing your website. Google wants to offer the best possible experience for your customers and show your site on mobile searches. According to recent statistics, mobile search is taking over desktop search at 60% (mobile) to 40% (desktop).
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How Easy Your Page Is To Read
- Keep it simple and readable…
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How long do users stay on your page once clicking on your site
- Are potential customers leaving right away upon landing on your website? Which is bad for your SEO and will leave your website at the bottom of the search. It’s bad CTR and we can help!
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Pictures
- Google loves original pictures and if you don’t know how to optimize or SEO pictures correctly, then this could be holding your site back.
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How Much Content You Have
- Google wants to see a ton of great content on your pages. Don’t have much to write about? That’s where our expertise comes in. We are expert content writers and know what it takes to solve users’ search queries.
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Videos
- if you want to rank, then you should be utilizing video now more than ever before as the internet is totally going digitally and the future of local SEO is actually “local Video SEO” So get going with video now before your competitors do!
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Page Structure
- The structure of your page makes a difference in your rank-ability along with the right keywords in the right places. If not, we can help you better structure your webpage for positive SEO friendliness.
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Your Company Geo Location
- Geolocation is your address, where you sit on a map of your area. If the google my business listing is configured properly, your local customers will be able to find your business when looking for your specific type of products and services. We will help you how to set up your Google business listing properly to attract the widest radius of customers in your area.
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Your Proper Use Of Keywords
- If you are not using keywords properly, you could dilute your entire SEO strategy. We know when, where, and why to use keywords in certain places that Google is looking at the most.
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Headings
- Headings are one of the most important factors in local SEO marketing. And having the right headings with the right keywords will get you the right rankings.
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How Many Competitors’ Does Your Local Business Has
- Competitors play a huge role in the success of your local SEO strategy. If there is high competition, it is going to take a lot longer and a lot more effort to gain strong rankings in your area that all have listings, websites, and rankings that we have to overcome.
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Social media factors
- You need your business to be on Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram, etc., and Post/Schedule relevant content regularly, for Google to see your customers interacting or at least sharing helpful information.
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Trust Factors
- Links from credible sources are important as your website just has a few brief pages that Google can understand. Google needs to trust you to rank you. We can help you build that trust!
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Local Reviews
- They are one of the most important factors of a safe, trustworthy local SEO marketing campaign and we help get the customers but you have to get them to review you. We will give you all of the tools you need to email, text, or message your customer’s easy instructions to give your business a Google review.
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Citations
- Are you on Yellow Pages, Yelp, Justdial, etc.? As Google wants to see that you are listed all over the place. We know where you need to be listed to show Google that they should take notice of your up-and-coming business.
