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INTERNET MARKETING GUIDE
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Shoutout Digital - Internet
Marketing & SEO Guide
1. Introduction
2. Why Internet marketing & SEO is important for
Home Service Business
3. Understanding the search engine ( PPC vs Organic
vs Map Listings)
4. How to get your company on the Google Map
- Step-by-step guide to claiming your Google my
business listing
- Google My business optimisation
- Our online review acquisition strategy
5. SEO Strategy for Home Service Business
- On-page optimisation - how to optimise your
website
- link building strategies
- Keyword research
6. Most important directories for home services
business
7. Social Media strategy
8. Recap
9. Checklist
10. Next Steps
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Introduction
Thanks for downloading our Internet Marketing & SEO Guide for
Home service business. In this guide we will walk you through the
process of claiming your map listing, optimsing your website from an
SEO perspective and explain:
- How search engines work and what you need to do to handle each
for maximum return.
- How the map listings work & how to get your home service business
listed on the map.
- Our social media strategy specially for the Home Service Industry
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WHY SEO IS SO
IMPORTANT FOR HOME
SERVICE BUSINESSES
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Why Seo is so important for home
service businesses
Most home service business already understand that the internet &
search engines are EXTREMELY important to the long term growth and
sustainability of their business but occasionally we get the question.
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Here's an example of a search query "Electrician Near Me"
If your business is not showing on the first page results then you are
potentially losing customers.
74% of the respondent said they use a search engine when they
are looking for a local retail or service business.
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If you are not showing up on the page one of major search
engine like Google & Bing for the home service related
keywords in your area. Then you are missing a major
opportunity.
This guide will show you how you can ensure that you put your best
foot forward and show up in as many local search terms in your area
as possible.
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UNDERSTANDING HOW
SEARCH ENGINE WORK
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Understanding how the Search
Engines Work
Over the past ten years the way the search engines work has changed
significantly; especially with Google focusing on local results. A majority of
home service businesses we talk with are confused about how the search
engines work and the differences between the map listings, organic listings
& the paid / Pay-per-click listings.
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Paid Listing or PPC Listings
In the paid section of the search engines you are able to select the
keywords that are relevant to you and then pay to be listed in this area.
The reason it is referred to as PPC or PAY-PER-CLICK advertising is because
rather than paying a flat monthly or daily fee for placement, you simply pay
each time someone clicks on the link. The PPC platform is based on a
bidding system and the company that bids the highest gets the best
placement. PPC is still a good way to market your business online, but
should be thought of as a short term marketing solution.
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Map Listing or Local Listing
The map listing have become very important because it is the first thing
that comes up in the search results for most locally based searches. If
someone searches "Electrician + Your City" chances are the map listings
will be the first thing they look at. Unlike the paid section of the search
engine, you can't buy your way into the map listings you have to earn it,
and once you do, there is no per click cost associated with being in this
section of the search results. We will share our Google My Business
optimisation strategy with you later in this guide and show you exactly what
needs to be done to obtain page one placement in the map section.
Here's an example of the map listing using the same search query "
Mandurah Electrician"
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Organic Listings
The organic listing of the search engine results page appears directly
beneath the map listings in many local searches. Similar to the map listing,
you can't pay your way into this section of the search engines and there is
no per click cost. We will share our SEO strategy guide.
Now that you understand the 3 major components of the search results
and the differences between paid, map and organic listings you might
wonder "What section is the most important?" This is a question that we
receive from businesses every day.
The fact is that all three components are important and each should have
a place in your online marketing program because you want to show up as
often as possible when someone is searching for your Home Service
business in your area. With that said, assuming you are operating on a
limited budget and need to make each marketing dollar count; you need to
focus on investment on the sections that are going to drive the strongest
return on investment.
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Where People Click on The
Google Search Results
Research indicates that a vast majority of the population look directly at the
organic and map listing when searching and their eyes simply glance over
the paid listings.
According to the research 72% of the clicks on the search results are going
to the Map and the organic listing.
Here's an image of eye tracking heat map where most searchers are
looking.
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GETTING ON THE
GOOGLE MAPS
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Getting your business on the
Google Maps
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Google My Business Listing
Optimisation Tips
Now that you have successfully claimed your Google My Business Listing
on Google you need to take additional steps to improve your placement
on the maps in your area.
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Google My Business Listing
Optimisation Tips
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SEO STRATEGY FOR
HOME SERVICE
BUSINESSES
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
Step 1 - Build Out Your Website & Obtain More Place Holders On
The Major Search Engines
A typical home service business website has only 5 - 6 pages ( Home, About
Us , Our Services, Clients and Contact Us ) That does not create a lot of
indexation or place holders on major search engines. Most contractors
provide a wide variety of services.
By building out a website and creating seperate pages for each of those
services ( Combined with city modifiers ), Your business can get listed on
search engines for each of those different keyword combinations.
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
Once the pages are built for each of your core services and sub-pages,
each of the pages need to be optimised from an SEO perspective so that
the search engines understand what the page is about and list you for
those words. Here are some of the most important items that need to be
taken care of for on-page SEO.
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
Once the pages are built out and the On-page SEO is complete, the next
step is getting inbound links. Everything you have done to this point is
laying the groundwork - you have the pages in order to even be in the
running but it is the number of QUALITY inbound links to those pages that
is going to determine your ranking in the Google search results.
So once the pages are built we are really just getting started. The only way
to get your site to rank above your competition is by having more quality
links to your site than your competitors.
There are number of things you can do to increase the number of inbound
links to your site.
Association Links - Be sure that you have a link to your site from any
industry associations that you belong to
Directory Listings - Get your site listed on as many directory type listing
as possible
Create Interesting Content / Articles about your industry - This is
probably the number 1 source of inbound links because you can write an
article about your industry and push it to thousands of article directory
sites, each containing a link back to a specific page on your site.
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
f you build out your site for your services and sub-services , optimise the
pages using SEO best practices and then systematically obtain inbound
links to those pages and sub-pages, you will start to DOMINATE the search
engines for your Home Service Industry related keywords in your area.
In order to help you determine what pages should be built out for your
site. we are going to guide you on how to find the most searched keywords
in your industry. By knowing these keywords and implementing them to
your new website, you can ensure that you don't miss out on valuable
traffic to your site.
Step 2. Once you have completed the sign or sign up process. Click on the
wrench icon in the toolbar at the top of the page.
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
Step 4. You'll see two different tools within Keyword Planner " Find new
keywords" and "Get metrics and forecasts for your keywords"
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
Find new keywords Tool : Like the name suggests, this tool is ideal for
finding new keywords.
So to help you get the most out of this tool, I’ll break down each of the 3
options.
“Enter Words”: These are single words that describe your business (for
example, “plumber” or “electrician”). This allows you to access Google’s
internal database of keywords for different industries.
“Phrases”: This is where you enter “seed keywords” and get a list of
closely-related terms. I recommend entering AT LEAST 2 keywords. For
example, if you run an Plumbing business, you’d want to enter terms like
“Plumbers in Mandurah” and “Emergency Plumber” here.
“A URL related to your business”: This is designed for Adwords users.
But you can sometimes find a few solid keywords here using your site’s
homepage… or an article from your site.
Get metrics and forecasts for your keywords: This is feature is only really
useful if you already have a long list of keywords… and just want to check
their search volume. In other words, this tool won’t help you generate new
keyword ideas.
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
Businesses
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SEO Strategy for Home Service
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DIRECTORY
MARKETING FOR HOME
SERVICE BUSINESSES
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DIRECTORY MARKETING FOR
HOME SERVICE BUSINESSES
10-15 Years ago, you could place a Big ad in the Yellow Pages and connect
with a large percentage of your local customers when they were in need of
your services. Today, people go to a numbers of places including Google &
Bing , they also go to online directories. Below are the most important and
search directories that you want to make sure you are listed in:
Maps.Apple.com
Facebook.com
Bing.com
Foursquare.com
Tomtom.com
au.kompass.com
truelocal.com.au
yellowpages.com.au
infobel.com
yelp.com.au
spoke.com
communitywalk.com
factual.com
hotfrog.com.au
brownbook.net
au.showmelocal.com
cybo.com
startlocal.com.au
lacartes.com
2findlocal.com
dlook.com.au
localbd.com.au
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DIRECTORY MARKETING FOR
HOME SERVICE BUSINESSES
You can add your company to most of these directory free of charge and
that will service its purposes from a citation development perspective.
Visit the website below to find the most important listing you need to be in
for every industry.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/citations-by-category
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SOCIAL MEDIA
MARKETING FOR HOME
SERVICE BUSINESSES
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Social Media Marketing for Home
Service Businesses
There is a lot of Buzz around Social Media ( Facebook, Twitter, Youtube )
but how can social media be leveraged by a home service business? How
can you actually use social media to grow your business?
It starts with understand that social media is the new word of mouth. The
best way to use Social Media is to enhance the engagement / loyalty of
your existing customers and by extension of that and social media
platforms, you will grow your repeat business and word of mouth business.
Send an email blast to your existing email list letting them know
that you want to connect with them on social media and that you
now have social profiles. Offer them some incentive to follow you.
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Social Media Marketing for Home
Service Businesses
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Times have changed
Gone are the Yellowpages, Directmail and Signage. Those forms of media
are still very expensive and give little return on your investment.
The top forms of media are now internet, sms and audio/video podcasting.
By reading this detailed guide you are well on your way in the right
direction.
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WEBSITE AND
INTERNET MARKETING
CHECKLIST
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Your complete Website
Checlist
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Your complete Website
Checlist
Site Logo:
Why this is important: the logo lends directly to brand identity and site
identification. It also creates a certain element of appeal and
professionalism in the mind of the visitor. It holds and important role in
visitor assurance and navigation.
Architectural Issues:
Why this is important: Website architecture can make or break the
performance of your website in the search engines. Poor architectural
implementation can create numerous stumbling blocks, if not outright
roadblocks to the search engines as they attempt to crawl your website.
On the other hand, a well-implemented foundation can assist both visitors
and search engines as they navigate through your website, therefore
increasing your site's overall performance.
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Your complete Website
Checlist
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NEXT STEPS
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Next Steps
Through the course of this guide, we have covered a lot of information and
taken you step-by-step through How to Claim & Optimise Google My
Business Listing, How To Optimise Your Website and how to leverage social
media to get more repeat and referral business. If you have taken action
and followed our instructions , you should be well on your way to
dominating the search results for the Home Service Industry related
keyword in your area.
If you've gotten to this point and feel like you need some extra help to
implement some of these ideas, we are here to support you. As experts in
helping home service businesses, we have had tremendous success
implementing these strategies.
You can call us directly at 1300 879 983 with any questions you
might have or visit our website at Shoutoutdigital.com.au to
request for a FREE online marketing evaluation of your business.
Our team will review your entire online marketing effort and come back to
you with a complete assessment of where you can improve and what you
can do to take your online marketing efforts to the next level.
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TOP 10 INTERNET
MARKETING SCAMS
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Top 10 Internet Marketing Scams
The last issue has to do with the fact that many of these services
mention as a selling point that they will re-submit your site weekly or
monthly to the search engines. This is definitely a no no, and is actually
pointless.
All keywords are not created equal. The likely scam of companies that
advertise top ranking on search engines is ranking you for
uncompetitive keywords. These are keywords that might look good, but
in reality don't get traffic, and are easy to rank very well in based on a
lack of competition. Beware of unreasonable guarantees... It it sounds to
good to be true. It usually is.
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Top 10 Internet Marketing Scams
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Top 10 Internet Marketing Scams
Since the Can-Spam Act most people have wised up to this scam. It’s
obvious that spamming people is a dangerous endeavor. Although it is still
a huge industry, and there are many that simply beat the system, most
would agree that it isn’t in line with “best business” practices. The above
offer has problems written all over it. Are the emails really opt-in? What if
they aren’t, are you willing to take full liability?
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Top 9 Internet Marketing Scams
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