4 useful tips and optimize your website locally

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  1. ronn345 New Member

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    • Know your place
      When I say ‘know your place’, I actually mean geography. You should know all the variations of names with which your work place is associated and use these names creatively in one form or the other in header or strong tags and at least once in title tags too. If you are selling pizzas in Denver, instead of writing just ‘yummy pizzas’ in h1 tag, you may want to use ‘the most yummy pizzas in Denver’, this might prove to be a longer tail, with higher conversion traffic. So make sure that you include all the landmarks and places of interest when you write your website copy. For geographical research Wikie can be surprisingly useful for you.
    • Play with categories
      If you are running a restaurant, targeting broader keyword categories like restaurant and bar, it won’t be such a smart thing to do, instead – ‘Best ‘Mexican food’ restaurant in Denver’ is a longer tail with a broader category that is more likely to convert. You can have more pages on your website targeting keywords like ‘best ‘Chinese’ food at ‘15th street’ instead of ‘best restaurant’.
    • Local Business Directories
      This is extremely important for your local search, make sure that your website is present in the local directories like Google Local Business Center, BBC, Talking Phone book, SuperPages etc. If not all, at least Google Local Business Center.
    • Web Analytics
      Use Web analytics to monitor your website and watch out closely for the keywords people are associating your website with and insert those bubbling keywords into your website copy.
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  3. sazymi New Member

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    When you do locally and wanted to get on the first page in every searches, you must consider placing a sitemaps on web so that potential customer can get to you in a click. Its helpful specially if you have a lot of competitor.
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    I've found that advertising on the TVs on the local gas station pumps is extremely effective as well. I'm sure that not many cities have them. If you can find a gas station that has them in your area, take advantage of that.
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    That thing is somewhat very effective but consider the cost. I mean you can do free site promotion and achieved the so-called ROI if you have that good strategy in you.
  6. sazymi New Member

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    One thing that you can filtered the sites and the task while creating a good strategy for your site. It will require a lot of hard work though but it can give you a massive impact with your output later on.
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    Thanks for the nice post.
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    Another thing that you can do to increase the ranking for local serach is to put the address of the area in the website footer.

    Ed
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    Pleae check Out This,I'm also Sharing With You some Of The Great Tips:
    [SIZE=-1]1. Insert keywords into your Alt Text. The absolute number 1 tip for image optimization
    2. Name your Images with descriptive file names, instead of using 23457.jpg, use something like largerapefruit.jpg

    3. Use relevant context text surrounding your images.Use highly targeted keywords and phrases surrounding the placement of your image(s)
    4. Use anchor text keywords in links to your images, instead of using "Click here" say something like click on the "large grapefruit"/
    5. Be sure your image directory is accessible to Google. Craft your robots.txt file so as not to limit search engines from accessing it.
    6. Be sure to enable Image Search in Google Webmaster Central.
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    well said. optimize your website locally by creating a good strategy for your site.
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    Thanks you for sharing the such useful information. A great post by you. Please keep sharing more and more.

    Have a nice day
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    Yes, site maps are not only good for potential customer but also good for search engine to crawl from.
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    Hi

    Wow.... great . These tips are very interesting. Thanks for sharing this informative information. I appreciate your work. Keep sharing more and more information.

    Thanks
    Have a nice time ahead.
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    Very nice tips. Thank you for this.
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    Ya you are right when you submit your site any directories sites then its so important that which is similar category to your site for Ex.you are doing for web development sites then you should to submit you site in computer and internet category.
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    I always keep in mind your tips whenever I have next site to be optimized. It is really excellent information for site optimization.
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    Yes increase more links mean more traffic and get good PR
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    Geo-targeted search is becoming more and more important in this day an age. Google as well as other search engines love geo-targeted meta tags such as Orange County SEM etc...you can even put the longitude and latitude in the meta tags to give google and exact position. This will help you become more relevant for geo-targeted searches for your product.

    use something like this...

    <meta name='geo.position' content='39.106441,-84.504694' />
    <meta name='geo.placename' content='Cincinnati, Ohio' />
    <meta name='geo.region' content='US-OH' />

    Also remember to optimize for keywords that local people will be searching for, from their prospective! There we go!

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