Friday, November 20, 2009

Recent Local SEO Trends: An Analysis By SEO Experts

By Jennifer Mashti

Today almost every business tries to have an online presence and when you talk about online presence Google becomes a must mentioned entity. Today being ranked in Google is a must and recent SEO trends show that more and more online businesses are trying to achieve that target.

Shopping online today is a popular trend and as a result small businesses based on locality will try to make the most of the internet. In most of the cases, the small companies find it very difficult to compete with the international companies in search engine optimization.

As a result of the surging small companies, the local SEO will bloom as well. There will be thousands of local SEOs, if not more. Also, it will be a source of income for the unemployed people who have little bit of knowledge about the SEO. That will increase the SMBs trying their luck on SEO.

Both individuals and companies will take on the SEO as well; this is because search engine optimization is inextricably linked with the building up of the brand image. So, the big companies will be especially aware of it and start a new line of business using their SEO.

SEO for sure will be the prime focus in the coming years rather than on Paid Search Advertising. In the process, we will have new methods and strategies for SEO as well. Businesses are now coming to know the importance of Search Engines in marketing with their increasing demand. Today the biggest user and customer base resides on the internet, hence increasing the chances of companies to promote and market themselves online through search engines at very less costs.

For local SEO undoubtedly Google is likely to become more important than ever. When was the last time you turned to the yellow pages for finding a company or a business you need to interact with? You don't remember? Well, don't blame yourself, because this is everyone's story today, after the Search engines have taken over our lives. Nowadays we turn to search engines for every small solution that we need. So, if you are a user, you will get a lot of options for you to get more information. And if you are a website owner, things are becoming even more inevitable for you to find yourself in Google.

Video integration will become important for local online marketing and as per the experts the aggressive local marketers will make the most of the videos to set themselves apart from others. Already, the companies are working towards it. Also, the small biz videos will pop up in the local search of Google. The marketers and the website owners will start to realize that the best way to exploit the Universal Search of Google is to use the local video search engine optimization.

Finally it is likely that the small biz websites are likely to beat the local or national directory at the SEO. The small businesses have the opportunity to outrank the directories like the Superpages, Yelp, Citysearch, etc. however, because of the dense population of the local directory, this may take some time.

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