For the businesses who are engaged into local businesses. With right optimization strategies and by observing the SEO algorithms you can secure good rankings for your local business.

MOZ columnist Sherry Bonelli has published  an in-depth article sharing seven strategies to help local businesses get good SEO rankings.

Bonelli says, “Google considers a variety of data points when it determines which local listings to display in search results and which ones to filter out. Here are a few other signals to pay attention to when optimizing for local search results:

Reviews

If everything else is equal, do you have more 5-star reviews than your competition? If so, you will probably show up in the local search results instead of your competitors. Google is one of the few review sites that encourages businesses to proactively ask customers to leave reviews. Take that as a clue to ask customers to give you great reviews not only on your Google My Business listing but also on third-party review sites like Facebook, Yelp, and others.

Posts

Are you interacting with your visitors by offering something special to those who see your business listing? Engaging with your potential customers by creating a Post lets Google know that you are paying attention and giving its users a special deal. Having more “transactions and interactions” with your potential customers is a good metric and can help you show up in local search results”.

Unfiltered: How to Show Up in Local Search Results

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