If you own a local business, this is a crucial moment to increase your online presence on a local level. Because now more than ever, your customers’ search focuses on local results. So, that makes ranking high in their local search results of the utmost importance. Are you not on top of their search results? Then you’re losing customers to the competition in your area.
Stop worrying about how to get to that top position. Let the Local SEO plugin take care of it for you.
Improve your chances to rank with the Local SEO plugin
The Yoast Local SEO is the easiest way to secure your place in local search results, Google Maps and the Knowledge panel. With the recently revamped way of adding all the important information to your web page, your chances to rank just improved even more!
By adding structured data in an innovative, new way, we make sure that search engines like Google get your location and other important information on the fly, are able to combine all that information and serve their visitors the best result for their search.
Plus: you’ll get access to the Local SEO training, where you’ll learn how to get your business among the top local search results.
What exactly does the Local SEO plugin do for me?
The Local SEO plugin helps you rank better in local search results. Simply put:
1. It tells Google everything it needs to know
Google needs information about your site in order to place you in local search results. It needs information like:
Name of your business
Type of business
Physical location
Opening hours
But just putting this information on your contact page won’t do the trick. You’ll need this data in a specific format – Schema.org – as well, so Google sees it on every single page.
The Local SEO plugin takes care of all that technical stuff for you under the hood:
Address output in Schema.org format
Showing opening hours (with Schema.org output)
Showing Google Maps instantly on your website, including a route planner
KML File generation and automatically adding these to your XML sitemap (needed for Google)
Submitting all of this technical data to Google
So no worries if this specialized local SEO stuff sounds a bit confusing: the Local SEO plugin fixes it for you.
Help your local business stand out
The Local SEO plugin by Yoast gives you everything you need to do well in the local search results pages!
In just a few clicks, your contact page looks perfect and you even get an awesome embedded Google Map. Ensuring that your online visitors actually make it to your place!
No technical knowledge needed. It’s done in just a few clicks.
3. It optimizes your local SEO for one or more locations
Do you have more than 1 physical location? The Local SEO plugin optimizes your Google listing for all of them, so people see the nearest option for them pop up in their search results.
You can also add a store finder on your website. Just upload a CSV file with all the details or type them in in WordPress. And of course, everything is responsive, so it looks just as professional on mobile: the main device people use for local search.
4. Bonus: Comes with free access to the Local SEO training
If you get the Local SEO plugin, you’ll also unlock access to the Local SEO training course. In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know about how to set up a winning local SEO strategy. Get your site ranking among the top local search results! The engaging videos, lots of examples, and challenging quizzes will surely get you inspired and ready to turn your local business website into a star performer.
The Local SEO plugin for WordPress is right for you if:
You own a small business
You have one or more locations
You have local clients, and you’d like to save time
You’re sick of seeing your competition show up higher
You’d like to get more customers and sell more
You don’t want to pay an expensive SEO professional to optimize your website for local searches
The Local SEO plugin for WordPress is not for you if:
Your business doesn’t depend on visitors actually setting foot in your store, center or office
You are a professional SEO expert who loves wasting time
You don’t mind seeing all your potential customers go to the competition
You’re fine with paying double the amount for an SEO professional to do all the proper markup and implementation
While you’re here…
If you buy Yoast SEO Premium, you’ll now also get access to all our SEO training courses in Yoast SEO Academy.
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