Local SEO refers to optimizing your business’s online presence so that users doing proximity searches find your listing at the top of search engine results pages (SERPs). According to WordStream, 72% of consumers visit a store within five miles after doing a local search. Google “near me” searches doubled in 2016, and 40% of consumers [...]
Today on Money Radio, Fasturtle digital pros Eric Olsen and Graham Ware explained why businesses need local SEO. In case you missed it, take a look at these stats: 72% of consumers visit a store within five miles after doing a local search. Almost 40% of people do all their searches on a smartphone in [...]
If you run a smaller-sized business, then marketing to customers outside of your area of service doesn't make much sense. Not only will you be targeting people that can't use your services or products, but you'll be competing with even more businesses, which is a waste of resources that makes it difficult to target customers [...]
Ranking for local SEO is an essential step to ensuring your small to mid-sized business succeeds. One of the best ways to boost your local SEO ranking is by submitting your NAP (name, address and phone number) to various local directories. However, it's absolutely essential that your NAP is accurate or it could end up [...]
As a local business, one of the key components of your SEO (search engine optimization) strategy needs to be local SEO. Local SEO involves a number of things, including: Using local keywords; for example, "computer repair service in Phoenix, AZ." Submitting your NAP (name, address and phone number) to local directories such as Yelp, Angie's [...]
If you are a local, small business, you want local people to know you exist! Targeting your SEO to Phoenix and area residents and visitors is the best way to bring people into your business without wasting your time on people who are not near you. Even if you offer things like mail order services, [...]
When was the last time you looked in the Yellow Pages? Chances are, it's been awhile. In fact, use of traditional printed search venues has decreased by over 50 percent in just the last 5 years. The time is right for your business to be found online. There are many local directories out there and [...]
Spurred on by the increase in the use of mobile phones to access the internet and by mobile search, businesses large and small are now seeing advantages to developing strategies to reach customers on the move. Small businesses, in particular, are now finding a more level playing field when it comes to being found in [...]
Scottsdale, AZ – (November 4, 2015) – Fasturtle has been working with multi-location franchise companies for years - generating additional traffic to every location’s website and brick and mortar, through their local search engine optimization, email marketing, and newly updated and revamped social media program. “We are able to take the information given from corporate, [...]
Local SEO, or search engine optimization, has been catching on now that almost everyone can connect online at any time, in any place through their smartphone or other mobile device. When you optimize your business through local SEO, you are assuring that anytime someone in your area puts in keywords that are conducive, your business [...]
