How Dead Links Can Affect Your Search Ranking and How To Fix It On today's episode, Bob and Jesse discuss dead links on your website, and how a broken link can significantly impact your engagement rates and search ranking! The pair discuss how to identify broken links, how to make sure links are routing properly, and more. Also, there is still time to get questions in for an upcoming interview with Schema expert Terry Samuels! Don't miss this opportunity to pick the brain of an expert. Whether you're asking something advanced or simply want to know more beginner-level answers, the field is open for questions. Thanks for checking us out, and enjoy the show! What you’ll learn How to identify broken links. What to do to reroute link paths to repair broken links and keep traffic flowing! Why dead links can negatively impact your bounce rate and search engine ranking! Here is the Transcript for Episode 89 Caleb Baumgartner: Hello and welcome to Local SEO Tactics, the podcast where we bring you tips and tricks [...]

How To Gain Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness for Your Website On today's Q&A episode, Bob, Jesse, and Sue offer an answer to the question "What is EAT?" They examine how to use EAT for SEO, and ways that you can gain expertise, authority, and trustworthiness for your business so you can climb up the rankings! We are always looking for questions! Visit us at localseotactics.com and leave us your question through our contact form, through email, or even a voice mail. If you leave a voice mail we use on the show, we'll send you a free Intrycks t-shirt! Thanks for checking us out! What you’ll learn What EAT is and what it's important to your rankings. How to gain EAT to improve your rankings. Where to begin developing EAT online to help your website. Here is the Transcript for Episode 88 Caleb Baumgartner: Welcome once again to Local SEO Tactics, where we bring you tips and tricks to get found online. I am producer Caleb Baumgartner and today Bob, Jesse and Sue discuss expertise, [...]

Using Metrics to Create Actionable Plans to Maximize SEO ROI In today's episode of Local SEO Tactics, Bob and Jesse discuss how to gauge success for your SEO ROI. If you're wondering how to measure real world success for your marketing ROI, this episode includes useful tips for creating productive measurements for tracking your progress and getting the most out of your SEO investments. What you’ll learn How to use gauge success of your SEO in generating leads for your business. How to read the data you're given by various tools to find your niche in your market. What tools to use to effectively measure your SEO gains. Here is the Transcript for Episode 87 Caleb Baumgartner: Hello folks, and welcome to another episode of Local SEO Tactics, where we bring you tips and tricks to get found online. I am your friendly neighborhood producer Caleb Baumgartner, here to intro another helpful episode. Have you started working on your SEO, but you're not sure it's helping? Bob and Jesse are here to help you understand [...]

Using Your Content Across Multiple Platforms Benefits Your Business. It is once again Q&A time with Bob, Jesse and Sue, and this time we're exploring how to repurpose website articles to use as Google My Business posts! We explain how you can repurpose a single piece of content across multiple platforms to improve your SEO ranking and generate content for your business. We also take a moment to plug our own Content Accelerator services if you're in need of someone to help you generate and schedule content. As always, if you have questions for us, let us know! If you leave us a voice mail question you could win an Intrycks t-shirt if we use that question on the show! Thank you for listening, and enjoy the program. What you’ll learn How to repurpose content for Google My Business use and beyond. Why it is important to alter your content just a little bit to avoid duplicate content penalties. The advantages of keeping a content schedule to create consistency and improve efficiency. Here is the Transcript [...]

Checking Local Ranking Visibility Using Google My Business Map Pack Ranking Tools In this episode, Jesse and Bob introduce you to BrightLocal’s local search grid and how you can use that knowledge to improve your gmb map ranking!! Through using information obtained through this feature, you can create actionable plans to improve your google my business map ranking! We would also like to tell folks about our upcoming online SEO courses! Though our beta signup is now closed, you can visit localseotactics.com/courses to sign up to be notified when courses begin! Folks who sign up as early adopters will enjoy a special bonus, so if you’ve been thinking of improving your SEO skills, whether you’re an agency or a small business owner, consider our courses. Finally, our upcoming schema-based interview with Terry Samuels is coming up soon! Visit localseotactics.com/schema to ask Terry a question and get your answers from an expert. Listen today for more great information and opportunities to engage. Thank you for checking us out! What you’ll learn How to use a local search grid to make actionable SEO goals [...]

Maximize the ROI on Your Website with These Strategies On today's episode, Jesse, Bob and Sue discuss making your website work for you by improving your web presence! Through treating your web pages as a member of your sales team, presenting goods and services, rather than an online brochure which simply explains your company, you can generate business almost 24/7! If you have a question for us, don't hesitate to reach out! You could win an Intrycks t-shirt if we use your question on the show! Listen today! And thank you for checking us out. What you’ll learn What are the advantages of having a strong web presence? How to treat your website as a sales tool rather than an online brochure. Why you should care about your web presence, even if you more traditionally generate business through word of mouth or other means. Here is the Transcript for Episode 84 Caleb Baumgartner: Welcome to Local SEO Tactics where we bring you tips and tricks and to get found online. I am producer Caleb Baumgartner. [...]

When Should You Be Concerned About a Google Algorithm Update? Google has released an update to their search engine algorithm! But what does a Google Algorithm Update mean for your business? Don't panic, Bob and Jesse are here to help you understand how to learn what's different after the update, and how to use a variety of tools to address changes in your SEO and search engine rankings! Also, we're looking for listener feedback on our upcoming SEO courses. Visit us at localseotactics.com/courses to take an extremely brief survey regarding what sort of courses you would be interested in, and also take advantage of the opportunity to sign up to be a beta student for our courses! Take part in shaping these learning tools, and take advantage of learning more for yourself to help your business thrive. Check out this episode today! Thanks for listening. What you’ll learn The importance of taking notice when an algorithm update happens! Using PageOptimizer Pro to get an idea of how the landscape looks after an algorithm update. How long after an algorithm update do you want [...]

Defining Your GMB Service Area Listing is Important, But Does it Matter For SEO? In this episode, our resident Client Success Specialist, Sue Ginsburg, brings us a great listener question from across the pond regarding defining your service area listing order in Google My Business. Jesse and Bob dive into best practices for defining your GMB service area listing, how your listings represent your business, and more. If you have questions for us, contact us today! If we use your question on the show, you may be eligible to receive a free t-shirt! Check this episode out today for great tips and more! What you’ll learn GMB uses standard geographic measurements (county, state, city) to allow you to define your service area. How you list your service areas does not necessarily affect your SEO. Be truly representational of your service area. Don’t expand your zone beyond where you serve! Pick bigger cities to define your boundary to help your SEO. Here is the Transcript for Episode 82 Caleb Baumgartner: Welcome back to Local SEO Tactics, where [...]