Three Ways to Achieve Hyper-Local Web Presence for SMBs

While billboards and newspaper ads will catch an eye here and there, if your business in not online - correction, if your business’ online presence isn’t strong, you will miss out on customers. Today nearly everyone searches for local products and services online, and as much as 50 percent of those people will visit a physical store or office they find on the web within one day. That’s some quick turnaround, but it is should come as no surprise when dealing with the now generation. So while you may have signed up for a groovy website in the dot com era, chances are it hasn’t been pulling its weight for ages. To make sure you business is easily found online you need to invest in hyper-local content and optimization. Utilizing a professional web marketing agency will likely be in your best interest, especially if the the following sounds like alphabet soup. Without further introduction, here are three keys to hyper-local online success.
Excellent onsite SEO
Not only do you need a website, you need a good website. What does that mean? A good, no great, website is one that is easy to navigate, responsive to screen size and enhanced with a localized search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. SEO entails using quality keywords in the visible text, names of photographs and images, in the titles, page names, and tags on any given website. Since Google and other search engines scour over all aspects of a page when seeking the best results for a search query your site needs to cover all its bases, in front of and behind the scenes.
Targeted Adwords Campaign
Google AdWords is a powerful paid advertising tool that will help to all but guarantee your business will show up at the top of search results, when it is properly managed that is. AdWords allows you to target very certain areas for your ads to appear in, from a whole state, to a county, city, small town or even a single neighborhood.
Connect with Social Media
Regular communication with your current, past and potential client base is a great way to get people to come back or give you a try for the first time. A healthy social media presence includes regular posts that with helpful information about your products and services. You can also respond directly to your customers’ questions, comments and concerns. Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus pages also provide a platform to distribute searchable material that can show up in Google search results. What you share and how it is typed is critical to it being relevant to search engines.
It’s called the World Wide Web, but it is an amazing tool to connect locally. If you want to enhance your business’ local web presence reach out to our highly experienced team at MORBiZ. We offer numerous tools to help your business grow online and off. Give us a call at
1-855-266-7249 and let’s put your business on the fast track to online success.









