Geographical Local Search
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Local search engine optimisation is a critical marketing strategy for any commercial enterprise attempting to reach their target customers. Localised SEO is essential for businesses that trade locally to a specific geographical region.
With many more potential consumers going online every day, the time has come to integrate local SEO into your marketing mix - if you don't act quickly, your rivals will be grinning all the way to the bank with money pulled in from buyers who could have been knocking on your door. This imminent flourish of consumers searching locally will keep growing.
And it's not just consumers who sit at home or at their desks who are conducting the local searches, fully supported HTML browsers have opened the mobile marketplace for consumers to seek products on the go via PDAs, mobile phones and their laptops using mobile broadband connections.
The channels your potential customers are using to search the web are changing. Is your marketing strategy adapting or are you leaving it until everyone else is already well and truly on the bandwagon? By then it could be way too late.
Why Should You Worry About Local SEO?
You're probably wondering; What's In It for You? Well, with so many SEO scams out there, you'd be right to ask, so let me tell you about the reasons behind local SEO and the the benefits.
While many people do the majority of their searches with localised words (towns, city names, regions), by the time your 'typical' consumer starts searching 'locally' or 'geographically' for products or services, they are most likely progessing through the buying process and are usually at the 'short listing' stage and ready to buy.
Let's Take a Local Search Example
If someone in Barnsley, West Yorkshire, is searching for a new carpet, rather than finding a link to your web site's home page, they find, and follow, a link to a page containing your business address, phone number, and other information specific to Barnsley.
Target your customers using relevant local information and your conversion rate (visitors to sales ratio) will sour and your bounce rate (site abandonment rate) will drop through the floor.
Last Updated (Thursday, 18 June 2009 15:18)
