Overall Ranking Factors

1. Place Page Signals (19.6%)

• Categories, Keyword in Business Title, Proximity, etc.

1. External Loc. Signals (16%

• IYP/aggregator NAP consistency, Citation Volume, etc.

1.  On-page Signals (18.8%)

• Presence of NAP, Keywords in Titles, Domain authority, etc.

1. Link Signals (14.4%)

• Inbound anchor text, Linking domain authority, Linking domain quantity, etc.

1. Review Signals (10.3%)

• Review quantity, Review velocity, Review diversity, etc.

1. Social Signals (6.3%)

• Google+ authority, Facebook likes, Twitter followers, etc.

1. Behavioral/Mob. Signals (6.1%)

• Clickthrough rate, Mobile clicks to call, Check-ins, Offers, etc.

1. Personalization (8.3%)

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Top Local Search Ranking Factors 2014

Local Search Ranking Factors 2014 identified 86 foundational ranking factors. This guide takes the top 20 most important factors and offers a succinct, illustrated example of each.

1. Proper category associations
2. A physical address in the city being searched
3. Quantity of structured citations
4. Quantity of native Google Places reviews (w/text)
5. HTML NAP matching place page NAP
6. Industry-relevant
7. Your NAP information featured clearly on your website
8. Your location as a keyword in title tags and headlines
9. Local area code on local Plus page 
10. Product/service keyword in business title

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What is Google Local?

Every single enterprise which has a real position can be a enterprise which could well gain from developing a Yahoo and google Community Web page in addition to listing. Not only may perhaps these people can be found in Yahoo and google Research to comprehend details, which include those people evaluations, but additionally the chance to enhance the particular Web page in order to local crowd utilizing Yahoo and google Convey can be quite uncomplicated. Therefore getting that simply, for anyone who is an area enterprise, get yourself a Yahoo and google Community Web page.

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