Local SEO Steps That Help 1 Location vs. Multiple Locations at Once

Local SEO Steps That Help 1 Location vs. Multiple Locations at Once
Local SEO Steps That Help 1 Location vs. Multiple Locations at Once

Local SEO Steps That Help 1 Location vs. Multiple Locations at Once

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Either you’ve got multiple business locations that you want to rank well throughout as much turf as possible, or you’ve got one location and the same goal.  You may be somewhat more focused on the Google Maps / 3-pack results, but you also want the maximum local visibility in the organic results. In either case you probably want to know what actions can help you in multiple areas at once, and what can help you in one problem area or another.

How can you feed the whole nest of birds at once, and how can you feed the one extra-scrawny bird?  You probably plan to do both, but if you can’t tell the two apart, you can’t put your time, resources, and effort to the best use now.

What do I mean by “help”?  Either bumping up your rankings for terms you already rank (badly) for, or starting to rank for new terms or in new cities/areas where you’re not even on the scoreboard yet.

As you go through the two quick bullet-point lists below, there are 3 basic concepts to keep in mind, which will help make sense of it all:

  1. Any work on business listings (Google Business Profile / Google My Business and citations) and reviews only helps one location, typically.
  2. Any work on the site or on backlinks can help multiple locations, particularly if you have multiple GBP / GMB pages that all point to the same website domain.
  3. Much of your Maps visibility depends on your organic SEO (i.e. site + links).

Steps that can help multiple locations at once (in the Google Maps or organic results or both):

 

Steps that only help one location (in the Google Maps results):

What has helped you, either as a scattershot or a laser beam?

Any questions or puzzles?

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Maggi Pier

Maggi Pier

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