SEO Blog Post "How to Achieve High Rankings on Local Search Engines"

Globalization is important to businesses, but companies prefer to give business to local merchants. If a business doesn't obtain high rankings on local search engines, they might lose a business opportunity. Clients may not use the business if they can't find them on local search engines.

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Ways to Achieve High Rankings on Local Search Engines: 

1) Include your client's websites to local search engines. 

• It's important that your site is included in relevant local search engines. 
• Some directories you should consider using to achieve a higher ranking: Google Local Business Center, Yahoo! Local Merchant, and Ask Business Search.

2) Submit your client's website listings to popular directories and internet Yellow Pages. 

• Some directories to consider: yelp.com, citysquares.com, mojopages.com, insiderpages.com 

3) Set your geographic location in Google's Webmaster Tools. 

• Build Google friendly sites. 
• Use Google's Webmaster Tools to see how clients are performing in their search results. 
• See how Google crawls and indexes your client's site. 

4) Add contact information to your site. 

• Add a physical address and phone number within an Address Tag on the homepage or some other contact page. 
• This will give increased credibility to your site. 
• Search engines will rank your site higher.