How Do You Rank For Local Traffic?

[bspears]

So I decided to take on the challenge of helping a friend of mine that owns a pretty successful mobile painting business with creating a great website. The design part is easy so I'm good there. However, what is the best way to get the page to rank in Google to generate local traffic?

A few things I know already:
1. Registering the site with all major local directories: Yellowpages, yelp, ect
2. Titles should include the city your targeting
3. Collect emails when you do service customers to create a mailing list (the money is in the list)
4. Social Media will be huge including google+ places

Any other ways to generate page ranking for local traffic including keyword strategies and traffic leaking would be greatly appreciated.

 

[flaw3d]

Citations is really key. Also depending on what their market is you can do the following
- Read this blog post http://magistrateinc.com/local-landing-pages/
- Yelp ( Think of it as a local search engine.) You need to optimize that shit and get reviews.
- Craigslist posting. This depends on their type of clients and what not. Doesn't always fit every business.
- Find local city facebook pages and hit them up for posts or what not?

 

[stackcash]

There are a ton of online business listings that most people don't know about. You should grab as many as you can over time. DirectoryBug.com offers this as a service.

You need to have solid On-Site optimization. I believe there's a solid guide on that on this forum.

Here are a few helpful links that might be useful to you:

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/local-seo-strategies-to-win-google’s-attention
http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach...ion-local-seo-perfectly-optimized-local-page/
http://www.goinflow.com/local-seo-strategy-checklist/
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-definitive-guide-to-local-seo/47319/