{"id":5823,"date":"2024-04-22T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:44:18","slug":"how-to-outrank-99-of-local-businesses-on-google-seo-tier-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/how-to-outrank-99-of-local-businesses-on-google-seo-tier-list\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Outrank 99% of Local Businesses on Google (SEO Tier List)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TLDR<\/strong>: Optimize local SEO with keywords in business names, landing pages, and positive reviews. Ensure your Google Business profile is complete and verified.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is a summary of a You Tube video &#8220;How to Outrank 99% of Local Businesses on Google (SEO Tier List)&#8221; by Wes McDowell<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrJ6qOWGPfk?si=8mYJUSTzCRt-A28Z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Business Name Keywords<\/strong>: Incorporating keywords related to your services in your Google Business profile name can boost your ranking, though it must reflect your actual business name to avoid penalties.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landing Page Title Keywords<\/strong>: Essential to include service-related keywords in the meta title of your homepage, which links to your Google Business profile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Positive Google Reviews<\/strong>: Actively encourage high star ratings from customers as these significantly impact your local SEO.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quantity and Quality of Reviews<\/strong>: Both the number of reviews and the average rating are important, with a slight emphasis on quality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Physical Location Proximity<\/strong>: Being close to the city center where you&#8217;re trying to rank can be advantageous but isn&#8217;t always controllable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Service Pages on Website<\/strong>: Having individual pages for each service offered improves both map and organic rankings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keywords on Landing Page Headings<\/strong>: Including keywords in headline tags (H1, H2) on your landing page is beneficial for SEO.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complete and Verified Business Profile<\/strong>: A fully filled and verified Google Business profile is crucial for ranking well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>City Name in Website Content<\/strong>: Regularly include the city name throughout your website to align with local search queries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internal Linking Strategy<\/strong>: Prioritize linking to your main landing page from other pages on your site to enhance its importance for SEO.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimize local SEO with keywords in business names, landing pages, and positive reviews. Ensure your Google Business profile is complete and verified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo","category-41","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}