WebUp^®'s Guide To Local SEO

So you have a new website or you have an existing website which doesn't appear high up when you search?

If your website doesn't have any incoming links from specific expected sources the search engines don't give your website much trust or credibility, no matter how much 'on page' Optimisation has been performed.

We're not going to give away all of WebUp^®'s SEO secrets here, but below are the basics, the minimum required to get your website ranking strongly in natural search.

Add your business's basic information to the following four websites, won't take long to do all four. Make sure you are consistent with the same Business Name, Address, Phone number & Website URL.

• Google My Business:- www.google.com/business
• Bing Business Places:- www.bingplaces.com
• Yell​ (formally yellow pages​):- www.yell.com/free-listing
• Yelp:- biz.yelp.co.uk

Ensure your business's social media pages have a link to your website, also make sure the business's Name, Address, Phone number is mentioned if possible.

Share your social media posts regularly with your local community by posting into local social media groups.

Get your customers to leave you Google and Facebook reviews, these must be genuine or you will be penalised! (Google and Facebook are very clever).