How Critical Is It To Put Your Address On Your Website For Local SEO?
Posted by Jim Mueller on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 @ 09:36 AM
SEO Question:
How Critical Is It To Put Your Address On Your Website For Local SEO?
SEO Answer:
With regard to local rankings, it's very important to have your address on the page you want to rank for...especially your home page. It's also a good idea to have your phone number right next to your address. Google refers to this as a 'web citation". A web citation is anywhere your name, address and phone number are found on the web...it's the equivelant of a link in the "non local" SEO world.
Full Video Transcript
So I wanted just to show an example of lists of web citation so you can get your web citations. There's literally hundreds of them like Google Local, Yahoo Local, MSN which is Bing actually Google calls it Google Places now, Yelp, City Search. ow The online Yellow Pages, Super Pages, yellowpages.com and here's just a laundry list of directories that you can find yourself and get web citation.
Let me show what one looks like here. Look up public relations, click on that. So this is an example of a bad one, it's got the phone number but no address so let's look for another one. This looks like a good one. So see where they have their address and phone number and company name that would be considered a web citation. That's going to help you show up in Google Maps.