Local seo yoast plug in
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https://yoast.com/wordpress/local-seo/
Anyone used?
Any good?
I have purchased as Yoast seems to be a good all rounder.
I am targetting geographical and my question is:
Is there any seo benefit ?It isnt a requirement of the plug in to add a physical addess ( you can add that it isnt and put a town)
I did a quick test http://www.themorrisagency.co.uk/locations/kent-band-hire/
In conjunction with an area page would Mr Google smile with glee or get his big red marker out ?
Cheers as always!
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The plug-in is something I use on quite a few clients sites.
I really like it because of its ease of use and the way it looks. However you can do the same thing with schema but for the money it is a great buy you can do everything that is needed to provide your business hours, address, phone number and it codes it perfectly allowing you to work on other things.
I agree with Miriam,
you must have a brick-and-mortar address and do face-to-face business in order to have a Google local listing.
Nice work finding that information. In addition you may want to look at
getlocal.org now owned by Moz has a lot of local knowledge.
For citations check out Whitespark.ca
you can get a discount from Moz.com/perks
hope this helps,
Thomas
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Hi Daniel,
It sounds as if you already found an answer to your original question, so that's good.
Regarding citation building - yes, this is something to be handled with care. The most important thing is to ensure that your NAP (business name, address, phone) is the same every place your business is listed around the web. That is also correct that you should only be building citations for physical locations. So, a plumber in city A who serves cities B-E is still only going to build one listing for his business on each platform. He's not going to build them for cities where he isn't physically located.
Hope this makes sense.
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I have just finished reading a very long post from another so I think that has answered my questions.
If I am right:
Citation scoring is quite involved and it needs to be done well to get benefit or pay the price.
I am setting my company up for franchising so, until then, no local listings unless they have the addresses and other things to go with it...right?
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