Complete SEO Guide to Ranking Local Business Websites

Complete SEO Guide to Ranking Local Business Websites, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.69, with 125 lectures, based on 4170 reviews, and has 29257 subscribers.

You will learn about Rank a local business website on the first page of Google Understand the entire local SEO process from start to finish Identify the best, most profitable keywords for local businesses Properly optimize a local website for maximum SEO benefit Find and obtain high quality back links and specific local business back link opportunities Build quality citations for fast ranking in the Google local pack This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in providing local SEO services to clients or Local business owners who want to rank their website on the first page of Google It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in providing local SEO services to clients or Local business owners who want to rank their website on the first page of Google.

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Summary

Title: Complete SEO Guide to Ranking Local Business Websites

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.69

Number of Lectures: 125

Number of Published Lectures: 121

Number of Curriculum Items: 125

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 121

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Rank a local business website on the first page of Google

Understand the entire local SEO process from start to finish

Identify the best, most profitable keywords for local businesses

Properly optimize a local website for maximum SEO benefit

Find and obtain high quality back links and specific local business back link opportunities

Build quality citations for fast ranking in the Google local pack

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in providing local SEO services to clients

Local business owners who want to rank their website on the first page of Google

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in providing local SEO services to clients

Local business owners who want to rank their website on the first page of Google

This course is being COMPLETELY updated! The first few sections have already been posted and there will be weekly updates with all new training and resources just for you. Get started knowing you’re getting the latest SEO training and follow along with the steps each week. Have SEO questions? Just ask as you go!

Top Local SEO course on Udemy

Instructor available for questions

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“Christine guides you very well thru this course. She breaks it down in sections for you so you never feel lost. The over the shoulder example from beginning to end helped me tremendously as I am mostly a visual person and like to see examples.” – Luis Palacios

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If you’ve been wanting to rank local business websites so you can provide local SEO services to clients, you’re in the right place.

In this course I take you along so you can watch me rank a real live local business website both organically on the first page of Google and in the Google local pack.

Here you will watch as I make changes to the client’s website so you will know not only the exact steps you need to take but why you should take them. We’ll start by covering:

The exact information you should be collecting from local clients

The exact spreadsheet I use to track my work

How to maintain current rankings through a redesign process

How to monitor your site after a re-design

Checking the site’s SEO health to improve rankings

After getting organized and gaining a better understanding of the website’s health we’ll begin the SEO process by:

Researching the best keywords to target

How to find your top competitors and see what you need to do to outrank them

How to set-up a demo site during the re-design process

How to keep Google from indexing your demo site

Building local pages and where to put keywords for maximum benefit

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“Christine has put this course together logically, in a way that you can understand, and makes you feel like you’re doing things the right way. I cannot say enough about the course. This is my 3rd SEO course, it’s the first that I will finish.” – P. Compton

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Next we’ll get into even more crucial SEO steps. We’ll start off with on-page optimization which includes:

Several step-by-step methods for using images to improve rankings

Why you should be using schema, what it is and exactly how to implement it

How to have a fast loading website

How to inform Google of a newly designed website or new pages

Finally we’ll look at off-site optimization which will take our SEO efforts to the next level. In these sections we’ll look at:

The step-by-step process for ranking websites in the Google local pack

Why, how and where to build local citations for maximum benefit

How to increase local business reviews

The exact companies you can use to outsource local pack rankings

Where to find the best back link opportunities for local business websites

There are several resources for you to download and use and lots of bonus tips and tricks you can use as well.

There has never been a better time to start providing local SEO services to increase your income. If you’re new to ranking local business websites, you’ll be fully prepared to provide local SEO services by the end of this course.

Increase your monthly recurring income by providing local SEO services. Enroll now and I’ll help you through the process.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Ranking a Local Business Website

Lecture 1: Why You Should Take This Course & What You'll Be Able To Do By The End

Lecture 2: Accessing Support & Resources from Instructor

Lecture 3: SEO Tools

Lecture 4: How to SAVE Money on Lots of Digital Marketing Tools

Chapter 2: Planning & Getting Prepared

Lecture 1: Section Intro: Getting Organized Before Starting The Project

Lecture 2: Business Info to Collect + Considerations BEFORE Starting SEO

Lecture 3: Download This Spreadsheet To Track Data And Stay Organized

Lecture 4: An Introduction To The Site We'll Be Ranking, The Client's Goals & Site Health

Lecture 5: Knowing Your Target Audience & Website Goals

Lecture 6: 3+ Accounts to Set-Up BEFORE Starting SEO

Lecture 7: Google's Local SEO Ranking Factors

Chapter 3: Seo Audit & Keeping Current Rankings During Redesign

Lecture 1: Section intro: Understanding The Health of a Website & Maintaining Rankings

Lecture 2: How to Keep Current Search Engine Rankings During the Redesign Process

Lecture 3: Knowing Your Back Link Profile, URL Structure and Using 301 Redirects

Lecture 4: How to Monitor A Site After A Redesign To Watch For Any Problems

Lecture 5: Questions to Ask To Ensure You Keep Your Current SEO Rankings

Chapter 4: Keeping An Eye On Your Competitors & Analyzing Their SEO Efforts

Lecture 1: Introduction to Competition Analysis

Lecture 2: How & Why To Find Your Top Online Competitors

Lecture 3: List of Competition Analysis Tools

Chapter 5: Keyword Research & Competition

Lecture 1: Performing Proper Keyword Research to Ensure Your SEO Success

Lecture 2: Using the 5-Step Keyword Research process

Lecture 3: Finding Keywords You Are Already Ranking For & Tools To Find More Local Keywords

Lecture 4: Researching Your Competitor's Keywords

Lecture 5: Selecting Final Keywords & How Much Traffic Do You Really Need?

Lecture 6: Determining how easily we can rank for specific keywords

Chapter 6: Developing Website Content

Lecture 1: Section intro: the importance of website content in your overall SEO

Lecture 2: Creating a content development plan & Content writing tools and reso

Lecture 3: What to write about

Lecture 4: Implementing An Internal Linking Structure

Chapter 7: Website Design & Development Plan

Lecture 1: Section Intro: Designing The Website While Keeping SEO In Mind

Lecture 2: Getting Design Inspiration. Do You Deserve To Be On Page 1?

Lecture 3: Using An Existing Theme Or Designing Your Own (And What I'll Be Doing)

Lecture 4: Setting up a demo site

Lecture 5: How to ask Google not to index your demo site while you work (in WordPress)

Lecture 6: Creating Location Specific Pages (And Exactly What To Include)

Lecture 7: Creating initial pages using a good URL structure & where to use key

Chapter 8: On Page Optimization

Lecture 1: Planning For Your SEO Audit & Auditing Your Competitors

Lecture 2: Geotagging Website Images

Lecture 3: Geotagging Local Business Videos

Lecture 4: Additional Information to Add to Your Images

Lecture 5: What Is Schema, Why You Should Use It & How To Test Your Site For It

Lecture 6: How To Implement Schema On Your Local Website

Lecture 7: Additional Schema Markup To Use For Local Business Websites

Lecture 8: Schema Code Examples

Lecture 9: Setting a preferred URL

Lecture 10: The factors that impact your website speed, how to test for speed an

Lecture 11: Relationship Between Page Speed and Hosting

Lecture 12: Duplicate content & images

Lecture 13: XML Sitemaps

Lecture 14: Responsive / Mobile Friendly Website Test

Lecture 15: On-Page Optimization Resources

Chapter 9: Tracking The Impact Of A Website Redesign

Lecture 1: Website Launch, Update on Site Design & Client Feedback

Lecture 2: How to Track Your Website's Search Rankings

Lecture 3: List of Position / Rank Tracker Tools

Lecture 4: How To Track The Impact of Your Website Redesign

Chapter 10: Website Relaunch & What's Next

Lecture 1: The Website Has Been Relaunched. Here Are The Very Next Steps

Lecture 2: The Website is Fully Optimized. Now What?

Lecture 3: The Benefits of Optimizing a Business Google My Business Page

Chapter 11: Creating Your Google My Business Listing

Lecture 1: How to Determine If Your Business Is Already Listed

Lecture 2: Adding Your Business If It's Not Already Listed

Lecture 3: Google's Guidelines for Listing on Google My Business

Chapter 12: Optimizing Your Google My Business Page

Lecture 1: What We're Going to Cover

Lecture 2: The Google My Business Dashboard Overview

Lecture 3: How to Correctly Optimize Your Google My Business Page – Part 1

Lecture 4: How to Correctly Optimize Your Google My Business Page – Part 2

Lecture 5: How to Handle Businesses With Multiple Locations

Chapter 13: Ranking Your Google My Business Listing

Lecture 1: What We're Going to Cover

Lecture 2: Where You Will Rank in the Top 20 Listings

Lecture 3: The Importance of Citations

Lecture 4: Citations vs Links: Understanding The Difference

Lecture 5: How Many Citations Do You Need?

Lecture 6: Find Out Where Your Business Is Listed & If It's Listed Correctly

Lecture 7: Where to Find Citations

Lecture 8: Where to Find & Track More Citations Inexpensively

Lecture 9: How & Why To Track Your Citation Efforts

Lecture 10: 94 Top US Citation Sources

Lecture 11: 60 Top UK Citation Sources

Lecture 12: 53 Top Australia Citation Sources

Lecture 13: 42 Top Canada Citation Sources

Lecture 14: 25 Top Netherlands Citation Sources

Lecture 15: Citation Sources By Professions

Lecture 16: Which Sites Should You Get Citations From First?

Lecture 17: The Importance of Site Structure

Lecture 18: How to Determine How Competitive a Niche Is

Chapter 14: The Importance of Google Reviews

Lecture 1: What We're Going to Cover

Lecture 2: The Difference Reviews Can Make On Your Ranking Position

Instructors

Christine Maisel
Helping Web Design & SEO Startups

Portable Entrepreneur
Serving Web Design & SEO Entrepreneurs and Agencies

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 62 votes

2 stars: 84 votes

3 stars: 392 votes

4 stars: 1094 votes

5 stars: 2538 votes

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