The local search sites that have been covered including Bing Local, Yelp, and now Google Local will provide local traffic to your website and to your place of business when it’s properly implemented.

Be sure to watch this video to find out what the new feature in Google Local that will help your business have a wider reach towards prospective customers.

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Hopefully you’ve already watched the video and are considering claiming your Google Local Site or creating it. The next video to be created will be entitled Free Local SEO Firm Overview of Google Local. In that video and blog post I’ll take you through the process of what to expect, the benefits, and how to utilize the features for your businesses benefit. Local search isn’t a new thing, but there are new things being added all of the time. The important thing is to take the information that is shared with you and applying it.

Until then this is James Stratford of Stratford & Associates – The Local SEO Firm standing by. Call (413) 376-8838 for your complementary Localized Search Engine Optimization phone consultation today.

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I encourage you to watch the video and follow the directions below the video so that you can start setting up your Bing local profile to get your business some more of the needed local presence.

- Go to Bing Local https://ssl.bing.com/listings/ListingCenter.aspx
Add your business name, phone number and address.
-Bing will confirm that your business isn’t already registered and tell you to either edit or create your Bing Local business profile.
-complete all fields and remember to provide the pertinent information. Be sure to include your keywords in the text, website link(s) (if applicable) as well as your images. This helps to validate your business and to potentially improve rankings.
-Utilize Bing’s websites area to add additional relevant links to your listing. Depending on your business it could be brochures, menus, Event Brite for your planned events, Information on services you provide and pricing, and any other things which are important to promote your business.
-Verify your listing. Bing will send you out a confirmation letter to your business office. Take the code in the letter and go to the website as listed and confirm this and you’ll have your Bing Local Listing!

Here’s an example of it from my own listing:

As always Stratford & Associates offers a complementary local search consultation for businesses serving local geographic areas.  Stratford & Associates specializes in localized search engine optimization which is a hybridization of traditional seo with local search and geo targeting to assist in bringing you local customers from your web presence and if you need a web presence it’s another service we perform so that we can best serve you.

Stratford & Associates is the Local SEO Firm located at 1 River Street in Erving, MA 01344.  Toll Free for US callers at (877)443-3850  Serving Worcester, Leominster, and Springfield metro areas as well as the US.

Regrettably Bing Local is a US only local product at this time, though you can try to set one up in your respective companies.  If it works for you in another country be sure to comment I’d love to know about it!

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The purpose of this video is for The Local SEO Firm to share with people some nice things about Yelp which is to be utilized in any local search strategy. This will provide you a much needed resource for the public as well as a link with a good page rank and if done right will add a little traffic to your businesses website.

In addition to the video from the Local SEO Firm I added the yelp gadget to the post. Right underneath this brief explanation is the Yelp interface. If you look at it you’ll see a couple of the recommendations that I’ve done for local businesses based upon my personal experience which is truly the social proof element of Local Search. You see with the Localized Search Engine Optimization strategy social proof is an essential component of the various authority sites that are available for businesses to utilize. It is only one part of the strategy, but it’s an essential one that takes a lot of time, but when done one at a time consistently the result will be better rankings and more targeted local website visitors.

Stratford & Associates The Local SEO Firm is ready to help you in any way needed. Whether it’s a complementary twenty minute consultation to assess your companies needs and create a proposal spelling out the Localized Search Engine Optimization and Local Search Strategy to perform or the same type with an hour or two of consulting with the business owner or representative to assist them in starting up with their own Local SEO Strategy we are here to serve you. Incidently you should ask about a Social Media Strategy as well since with the hybridization of the three parts of the strategy will increase the amount website visitors giving you more opportunity to convert to sales from the better exposure.
If you’d like more details go to http://localseofirm.net/contact-us/ and give us a call!

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This specialty is important to all businesses that are geographically based, but are not utilizing geo-targeting to draw local customers to them.  The process is one that is designed to draw the local customers doing internet searches for things they want to buy to your site where they can see what goods or services that you have to offer them.  In order to be competitive in the marketplace you need to be visible and have page views on your website by targeted local customers and that is what Local SEO Firm is ready to do for your company at this time.

Today more than ever there’s a need for all businesses to have a presence on authority sites as well as their own website or blog.  This is one of the parts to the Local SEO strategy and is key in adding credibility to your company. As well as in some cases social proof which is another key.  We focus on setting up the platform for others to  provide the social proof in a natural unsolicited manner.

The objective of the Local SEO Firm is to provide businesses that reside in a fixed location and/or cover a certain geographic area the Local Search Engine Optimization that they need to reach their prospects in the local area they serve.

Our desire is to serve customers who see the need for Local SEO  We start serving people by doing a free consultation.   Then define the needs, create the solution, and submit it for review.  Once things are agreed upon we will work hard to assist the business owners in creating more visibility which is produced through local SEO coupled with local search.

This will give the business the opportunity for enrichment resulting  from leads generated that converting to sales.  Ideally if the  new customers generated from the sale are happy they will let people know about your company.  They may do this via word of mouth, in person, on the telephone or even online which will naturally generate more leads as you have more satisfied customers.

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