http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/ SEM Help For Local Service Businesses Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/#comment-11 Local Search Hound Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:47:19 +0000 http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/#comment-11 Justin, you're exactly right. Justin, you’re exactly right.

]]> http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/#comment-10 JustinM Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:23:06 +0000 http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/#comment-10 You bring up a great point that should be mentioned a lot more. If more local websites hired an SEO or at the very least optimized and made their site more search engine friendly(no flash!), I believe the engines would have an easier time ranking the best sites. A good SEO campaign could rank a website #1 for almost all local queries and intents. That won’t be good for the user at first, but if more and more local sites engaged in SEO practices at least then the search engines would have a lot of data to work with. You bring up a great point that should be mentioned a lot more. If more local websites hired an SEO or at the very least optimized and made their site more search engine friendly(no flash!), I believe the engines would have an easier time ranking the best sites. A good SEO campaign could rank a website #1 for almost all local queries and intents. That won’t be good for the user at first, but if more and more local sites engaged in SEO practices at least then the search engines would have a lot of data to work with.

]]> http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/#comment-9 The Other Problem with Local Search: Location » Small Business SEM Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:54:40 +0000 http://www.convertoffline.com/nobody-wants-to-admit-the-problem-with-local-is-the-lack-of-seo/#comment-9 [...] makes an excellent point on his Convert Offline blog with this post: Nobody Wants To Admit The Problem With Local Is The Lack Of SEO. Tim is talking about the “confusion” and “challenges” involved in solving [...] [...] makes an excellent point on his Convert Offline blog with this post: Nobody Wants To Admit The Problem With Local Is The Lack Of SEO. Tim is talking about the “confusion” and “challenges” involved in solving [...]

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