Almost a month ago I created a website called SEO by the Hour. I created this site because I am in the SEO/internet marketing community and I felt the need to possess a website that represented my resume or skill-set. I love my current job and make plenty of money to get by. However I figured it couldn’t hurt to create a site adverting my skills (it would also be nice to be the #1 SEO Specialist; at least according to Google & Yahoo.)Two weeks ago (between 2 of my Local SEO posts Off-Profile SEO Linking & Finalizing Your Profile) I decided to apply everything I blogged about by creating a page targeting “San Diego SEO” and here are the results if you Google search “san dego seo” (at least w/my ip);
Let me explain to you exactly what I did:
Referencing my San Diego SEO Business Profile on Google & my San Diego SEO Web page on SEO by the Hour.
One Page Optimization
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Title Tag: San Diego SEO: SEO Specialist in San Diego, California
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META Description: Freelance SEO San Diego - James Harrison; a San Diego SEO Specialist has been providing excellent customer service and superior SEO services to many local San Diego companies. Contact SEO by the Hour today for a free SEO quote. - San Diego SEO Specialist -
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META Keywords: seo in san diego, san diego seo, southern california, san diego ca, 92109, seo specialist, seo, james harrison, sunny san diego
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Headings: <H1>San Diego SEO Specialist</h1> <h1>Call SEO by the Hour Today!</h1> <h1>Where in San Diego Am I located?</h1>
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Under the 1st H1 I mention San Diego in bold in the 1st sentence (prominence). I also mention San Diego in the 2, 4 and 5th sentence also with the last San Diego bolded. I also tried to add content that supported San Diego like ‘Sea World’, ‘California’, ‘beach’, etc.
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Under the 2nd H1 I made sure San Diego was in my first sentence and I bolded SEO (because SEO was in the 2nd H1 tag. Get it? SEO heading San Diego SEO content). I also mentioned 2 phone numbers, both with San Diego area codes. I made sure these numbers matched my business profile.
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Under the 3rd H1 I mentioned San Diego and surrounding areas just above a map from my local business profile.
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***Notice how I keep bolding phrases that relate to the H1’s. Also note that the map is a Google map ;)
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Under the last H1 titled “Where in San Diego Am I Located“, I have a link pointing to my SEO business profile, a “where” link pointing to my business profile map and an internal link to another SEO page with “SEO” in the anchor text.
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In the Footer I added my address and made sure the zip code was listed.
Off Page Optimization
- I linked to it from my San Diego SEO blog. The link’s anchor text was “SEO Specialist located in San Diego, CA.” The title of that post is “SEO Specialist“. The URL is http://blogoptimizer.blogspot.com/2008/09/seo-specialist.html
- I linked to it from the home page of SEO by the Hour with a link titled “San Diego SEO“. Simple, right?
- The domain has several SEO and San Diego SEO related links pointing it and some of those pages have ’san diego’ in the title tag.
- You can visit my SEO Business profile on Google to see how I optimized it.
So, there you go. If you are a business with an actual company location, build a page strictly for local biz and start getting biz through Google fast!
I’ve done this for several websites, but I never done it this fast, it was pretty awesome though, to see positive results so quickly.
Other SEO Related Posts:
- Local SEO Tips Pt. 2 of 3 - Off-profile SEO Linking
- Local SEO Tips Pt. 3 of 3 - Finalizing Your Profile
- Local SEO Tips Pt. 1 of 3 - Creating a Profile
- Reconsidering Using a Cell Phone for Google Local Search
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Comments About Local SEO Tips PT 4 of 3 - “san diego seo”
// 20 comments so far.
SEO Freelancer // October 03rd 2008
Hey James,
Why do you tell everybody your secrets? Aren’t you worried other SEO’s in San Diego are going to do the the exact same and more to take your position?
Ray // October 05th 2008
James,
I think this was a awesome article you are absolutely correct, that seo has to be done right to get those top rankings on Google. I really liked your article, I actually use some of those tips myself, I wis you well there is San Diego with you biz. Local Business Websites
Deep Web Point // October 06th 2008
nice Article Its realy gret touch .i visit your site and got more information good keep it up
thanks
Google SEO Tips // October 10th 2008
How can you increase your position in the Local Google Results.
I submitted a company there and it was introduced at #4 and hasn’t improved or decreased with my sites rankings.
james seo // October 14th 2008
Hey SEO Freelancer, let just say if they are spending time working on terms like SEO, then I don’t have to worry. I rather SEO’s focus all their time on terms like that. Leaves me room to target terms newbies actually type in keeps them occupied while I target affy terms.
Hey RAY, Glad to hear there’s someone out there that agrees with me. Thank You very much!
Hey Deep Web point, hope to see you around some more.
Hey Google SEO Tips, #4 isn’t bad if you don’t know what you are doing. If you are having a hard time moving from spot number 4, maybe change your title a little to be more catchy and get a better click through rate. Are you saying #4 on local or organically?
Thanks all you guys for commenting, I really appreciate it.
SEO South Africa // October 25th 2008
Brilliant post, you have specified the perfect combination of steps for on page optimisation.
SEO South Africa // October 25th 2008
I like your style, with your moderation queue notice, you made me smile.
“// You won an all expense paid trip to the comment moderation queue”
Desk Coder // October 27th 2008
I did this for my dad’s business, and I went ahead and did it at Yahoo, MSN, and every other local listing. His business from the Internet went from about 5 people last year to over 100 this year.
Busby SEO tester // November 01st 2008
for 2008 i’m predict about SEO, is Localization, and you’re doing right now…Great works!
Google Page One // November 03rd 2008
Really on the button! A lot of Strong SEO is look at as old school now, but there is only one way ands the right way. Great article!
David Cheong // November 03rd 2008
Thanks James for sharing information regarding about SEO, and great things that you have it written in Season 3 Episode 4 :). Nice Idea, and workable guide here.
martha // November 25th 2008
google shows the results location vise…
How are you going to target all the location, means how can my site be on top in most of the locations..
Nice article….
admin // November 26th 2008
Hey Martha, If I’m getting your question right. You want to know how to upload you company to multiple locations. Google and MSN offer a great feature that allow you to bulk upload all your company location at once through a spreadsheet. You can forge locations with private mail boxes, use companies with phone line redirecting and you can create a page for each city only replacing a percentage of the content with whatever relevant cities you’re targeting.
I hope i answered some questions. I think I’ll make a video on a portion of this.
faizal kamal // December 01st 2008
awesome. . .Awesome. . .awesome. . .
Nice Article, Sir
i will try your share to my web
Good Work, thanks for your share
Expose Local SEO // December 15th 2008
Hey James,
Are you still going to produce the video on the bulk upload? I might give it some love from my site.
Thanks,
Terry
Expose Local (Local SEO Resource)
Valperadsed // December 17th 2008
I think that results on http://bnetsearch.com/ it is better than on other web search engines. And what you think of it?
seo test // January 26th 2009
great tutorial, thank you for that.
PPC Classroom // March 03rd 2009
The Giveaway has been designed to give marketers that upgrade and promote the most, the maximum exposure during the first few days after launch. This system rewards proactive members while still allowing smaller list members an opportunity to participate.
scottbrody // March 24th 2009
Hello,
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Thank You,
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search engine placement // May 21st 2009
Wow, great information. I could say my knowledge in seo is already broad but I find it nice to see people giving out tips and new information.
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