Complete SEO Guide to Ranking Local Business Websites
What you'll 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
Requirements
- No previous SEO knowledge or experience is required.
- Basic HTML knowledge is helpful but also not required.
Description
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!
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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.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in providing local SEO services to clients
- Local business owners who want to rank their website on the first page of Google
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- 4.3 Instructor Rating
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Christine is a Web Design & SEO Business Coach at Portable Entrepreneur where she directly helps web design and SEO startups through education, coaching and services.
Christine has been a web designer for nearly 15 years - 10 of which she has been self-employed. Her work has taken her from working for some start-up dot com companies in the early 2000's to working as a contractor for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense to her own home office.
In her time, she has built 100's of websites and blogs primarily on WordPress and Joomla. Christine has also provided training to individuals and businesses to help them manage their websites on their own with no knowledge of web coding.
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The Portable Entrepreneur helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and agencies start, run and growth their Web Design, SEO & Marketing business.
We help you find consistent, high-paying web design & SEO clients to scale your business.
It’s simple…we bring the strategy, you come ready to take action. Become financially independent all while helping your clients generate more leads, customers and sales in the process.