The Art of Local SEO – easy beyond belief

Morning!

And how is the world treating you today?  Over here in LingLand, there are ferocious thunderstorms that are wreaking havoc across my town.  Luckily, however, the power has yet to be hit….and so I can continue to blog!  Yay!

But I digress.  🙂

Tell me now, and be honest.  Do you have a local niche blog…and want to achieve top 10 SEO results?

You see, I have been doing SEO now since back when Infoseek did real-time indexing of webpages (1997), and some things simply just don’t change.  It’s actually quite easy to gain high visibility relatively easy for specific niche keywords!  All you have to do is provide quality, worthwhile content while taking care of some common-sense design features like title tags, H1 and H2s…and the rest just follow.

Let me give you an example.  Let’s say, oh, you’re a neuropsychologist and serve towns including Union, NJ (but you’re not based there, remember).

• neuropsychologist union nj

You’ll see:

Dr. Ilyse O’Desky and Associates, Pediatric Neuropsychologist, NJ …

Presentations & Publications – Traumatic Brain Injury Model System

followed by 82,000 or so more results.

I built the site of Dr. O’Desky, the first one returned.

Other local sites I’ve built rank just as high.

I don’t focus on Web 2.0, I don’t focus on flash, all I care about is writing superb content that Google and other search engines reward.

You see, the nice thing about local site SEO is that your competition is ‘way ‘way WAY different than the typical ‘make money via keyword SEO’ stuff.   Instead of doing all that blasted keyword research and algorithm thingees and the like, you can focus upon simply building a superb site that ranks high naturally.

During next week, I’ll be writing a series of articles about the art of local SEO.  I think you’ll find them most illuminating indeed!

Stay tuned,

Barbara Ling

ps – speaking about SEO:

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