Local SEO: A Must

Merlin Sturgill
3 min readDec 16, 2017

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Every internet marketer and business owner knows exactly how powerful SEO can be in making or breaking that new shiny online business website. Without SEO, big search engines such as Google will not rank your website as high as i]t could be, and this can cause major problems. Business every year spend thousands to perfect their SEO strategy and to make sure that it is working correctly. One very big issue that many businesses or websites that try to attract an audience online forget about is that you also need to make sure that your website is complying with something called “local SEO”. This type of SEO is especially important to the small business that has physical stores in cities. When people in your city look for your type of physical business, you need to be sure that your local SEO is up to the task of routing them to your website on Google. If you can perfect this type of SEO, you will slowly see more and more customers walk into your customer’s door every day.

In Googles previous days, before the Pigeon update, companies without great SEO or websites at all could rank high on the Google search engine because there were a lot of factors that Google was not really factoring into the algorithm such as quality of articles, and what Google determined as spammy articles and websites. With this update, it has really changed how websites apply SEO to rank high on Google. Companies also have to decide if they want to be more organic and rank on Google more naturally or if they want to really dive into SEO or even pay a trained SEO agency to perfect the SEO on their website. Either one of these plans is great because they both will ultimately gain a larger audience on your website. This is especially important if you own an online store and you are relying on traffic to sell your products or services.

Nowadays, big digital marketing and SEO agencies have a full list of things they can do for your website such as SEO, audits, remaking your website, etc. It is your decision what exactly what you want to do and how big your budget is. most of this information can be successfully found online, but an agency like this can make it really easy to sit back and relax while they do all the hard work to make sure that your website is the best it can be in its goal of gaining an audience or selling products or services. SEO and local SEO are both very important but you should consider exactly what type of audience you are aiming for. If you want an audience that is more spread out all over the internet then regular SEO is good for you, and if you are aiming for a more local audience than local SEO is good for you.

Building a website and making that website a high rank on Google is a hard task. you need to figure out exactly what type of SEO you are going to use and how you are going to develop a plan to make it happen. Some would suggest hiring an SEO agency, but that can cost a lot of money. Make sure that you know how to rank your website on Google with SEO.

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Merlin Sturgill
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Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of the zeitgeist.