by Boca Raton SEO Guy
18. April 2010 12:42
Yahoo! Local SEO Tips
Gaining a top ranking in Yahoo! local is slightly easier than a top ranking at Google Maps, as, Yahoo! local is just a tiny bit less stringent about what you can and cannot do.
For instance on Yahoo Local you can submit a full domain name as the name of your business, not so on Google Maps, as they do not allow you to format it as something like mydomain.com or mydomain.net even if that is the actual name of your DBA, LLC or corporation.
In my experience, the tips that I have personally found to work the best for a Yahoo! local business listing are:
- Area code matches the target demographic. e.g. 561 area code for Boca Raton Florida
- Removal of the address to show just the city and state. This makes for a cleaner looking listing and also forces the Yahoo! local algorithm to sort your listing towards the top.
- Yahoo! local reviews, the more the better, same as Google Maps.
- DBA as your keyword, e.g. town blue widgets or townbluewidgets.com. In Florida a DBA is only $50.00 per year, highly worth it if in return you are rewarded with a #1 local spot.
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That's all for now,
The Boca Raton SEO Guy