reach your online potential & help customers find you locally

Reach Your Online Potential Help customers find you locally

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Stephanie Rowan

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• Local search overview• Websites for local businesses• Search engines:

o Optimization for local businesseso How to increase your ranking in local results

• Google places overview• Social tactics for local traffic• Mobile and local search• Where to start

Agenda


• 20% of search is related to a locationSource: Google

• Significant shift in focus to local by key players

• Google owns 66% of U.S. search marketSource: ComScore

Why is local search important?

Local Search Overview

Search Then Search Now

Yellow Pages Google

National Retailers

Local Businesses

Visibility/Credibility

Accessibility of Information


Key Players in Local Search

Local Search Overview

Search Engines

Social Media

Directory Listings

Geo-Local Services

Deal-a-Day Services

• Google• Bing

• Facebook• Twitter

• Yelp• CitySearch

• Foursquare• Gowalla

• Groupon• Social Living

• Engines & social networks new focus on local search

• Local businesses with few locations have the advantage

• Drive foot traffic• Viral sharing

• Listings & review sites

• Fuel for search results


• It’s all about accessibility• Websites aren’t just for human visitors• Domains impact search• Ecommerce is more mainstream

o $1 billion on Cyber Monday!

• They’re more affordable than evero Self manage or go proo Assess time, ability and quality

A Website is Expected

Websites for Local Businesses

8 years ago: $5,000 + main.

Today:$5/m - $70/m


a. This monthb. This yearc. More than two years agod. Not since it was builte. I don’t have a website

When did you last update/improve your website?

Text, Images, blog, etc.

Poll Question


• Should reflect the quality of your product/service• Two audiences: Looking for much of the same thing in

slightly different ways

Web Design & Content

Websites for Local Businesses

Humans Search Engines• Easy navigation • Logical navigation• Relevant information • Relevant content • New and engaging

information• Updated and unique

content• Quick to load design • HTML over Flash


• Paid Search (PPC)o search engines –

paid listings

• Organic Search (SEO)o search engines’

core results

• Local Search (Mix)o directory listings,

Places, GPS

Search: Breakdown

Search Engines: Result Listings

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Non-Local Search Results

PAID

ORGANICPAID

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Local Query Search Results

LOCAL

ORGANIC

PAID

LOCAL

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ORGANIC

PAID

LOCAL

PAID


Definition: The process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “organic" or un-paid search results.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization Defined

Local

ORGANIC


• Title Tag: o Descriptive, keyword-rich, not generic, o Should be unique page to page

• Meta Description:o Often produces the snippet o keyword rich, should

differ page to page

• Keywords: o Match to search

queries

Meta Data & Tags

Search Engine OptimizationTitle Tag

Title Tag

Title Tag

Meta Description

Meta Description

Meta Keywords


• Relevance of content to search query• Keywords within site and meta data match the

terms queried• Unique / updated content• Local telephone # and address• Reviews – quantity, quality, authority

• Credibility of links to your site:• Local chamber, local press, directory listings,

credible blogs, professional associations• Quality/quantity, diversity, relevancy

Local Search Ranking Factors

Search Engine Optimization

Google: • Relevance

• Prominence

• Distance

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Google.com/places

Google: Hotpot: Personalized recommendations engine integrated into Google Maps for Mobile,

Google Places and web-based local search.


A. Yes!B. No, not yetC. No, I don’t need oneD. I don’t know

Do you have a Google Place Page?

Poll Question

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Google.com/places

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Do you own your Place Page?

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Creating Your Google Place: Google.com/places

Address

Web Info

Descript.

Category

Service/ destinatio

n

ShowAddress?

Hours

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Creating Your Google Place

Photos X / 10

Payment Info

Videos X / 5

1. Get a Google account

2. Create & validate your listing

3. Manage & change your listing at anytime!


• Deal-a-day offerso Build awareness & get

customerso $ = loss

• Social check-ino Build awareness o engage customers

Grow Brand Awareness

Social Tactics for Local Traffic

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Groupon

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foursquare


• Popularity of local search applications is increasingo Bing, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter

• Mobile browsing increasing w/ smart phone adoption• 8 - 10% of all search queries are via mobile (RBC)• 53% of mobile searches have a

local intent (Microsoft)• Mobile visitors likely to buy sooner

o 1 hour vs. 1 week (Microsoft)

Mobile & Local Search

Mobile Search


• Quick load & displayo mobile optimized images

• Easy navigation o abridged version of full site

• Relevant content o Key info: address, tel. # and

product information

Mobile websites: What matters?

Mobile Search

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Mobile Website Example


Google your website like customer would• Location, keywords

Review your SEO, page title and snippet display Review your domain name strategy Claim your Google Place Update your listings on

• Yelp, Citysearch, Merchant Circle

Assess mobile accessibility

Create a plan to maintain your online presence

Actions:

Where to Start


• Questions?

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