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Local business to benefit from Google’s Place Search

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Google has introduced a new feature called Place Search which has its direct effect on Local businesses. It has added the new option called Places on the left side of the search results and if it thinks that the user’s query is related to local information, it will automatically display the relevant results.

This new feature has its direct effect on local businesses as they derive the benefits by optimizing their sites and thus attracting traffic.

As part of its Place Search Google will be identifying those sites that talk about physical places even if there is no mention of location address. It will be displaying 30-40 search results on a single page in order to facilitate the user find information with one search. Google has estimated that it will on average two seconds of time for the users making local search.

As the feature is in its initial stage, some users may not see it currently but once fully functional; it will aid them a lot in finding local information of their interest.

Make use of more than one Keyword Research Tool

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

A Keyword Tool is quite useful in knowing how users are making searches and which phrase is being most commonly used. Given this, just making use of one such tool may narrow down the chances of finding the right keywords. There are many Tools like Google Adwords, Wordtracker, WordStream, Google Suggest, etc which the website owners can use to determine the relevancy of proposed keywords.

Avoid the obvious keywords

It is understood that most used keywords have high search volume and equally high is competition. Instead of overcoming the high level of competition, one should focus on using the niche keywords appropriately and efficiently.

Choose keywords that match your content as well

It is one of the common mistakes that SEOs make while selecting the keyword. They select keyword or keyword phrases on the basis of their search volume implying they choose the competitive keywords. Instead, keywords must be selected in context to the website content to support the overall SEO process.

Use Long tail and less competitive keywords

Long tail keywords are effective in getting results as they have lesser competition. Once considerable outcomes are achieved, move on to select the new set of keywords.

Not always start with the Home Page

It is not mandatory to start optimizing the Home page. Most site owners think that doing it will yield results but forget that a lot of content is available on the inner pages which if optimized first for search engines can also produce good results. There is no harm in moving from inner pages to Home page.

These are some of the useful tips for website owners to make their Keyword Research process more effective.