Guest Blogging
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I am looking to get into guest blogging for our retail brick-and-mortar store to increase more local search traffic.
1. Any local SEO recommendations/tips you have?
2. Can you post the same article in multiple places? Or is this a huge no-no?
3. For local search, should we focus on article directories or guest blogs?
Thanks in advance for your feedback, and sorry that it's a three-parter!
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1- Make local listings , & Google places etc
2- big no no
3-guest blogging for sure
4- focus on guest blogging on sites with a audience similar to your customer base (make sure the sites have traffic)
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1. Just use your address and phone number in the byline of your blog posts, along with a link.
2. You can, but it kind of defeats the purpose. The 30 minutes it takes to write a decent piece of content is the least you can offer a blogger in return for space on their site.
3. Guest blogs. I would stay away from article directories - just my opinion, but they tend to be spammy, can lead to anchor text over optimization, and (if and when that happens) it is very difficult to remove the links.
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