Local SEO Tools for UK
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Hi guys
I'm looking for any recommendations for local SEO tools in the UK? I keep stumbling across a variety of different tools but they all seem to cater for the US market only.
Any tools or tips would be greatly received!
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Hi everyone!
I'm happy to say that Moz Local is now available in the UK. You may learn more about it here: https://moz.com/blog/moz-local-uk
--Kelly
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Hi DHStom,
We had so many readers point out that many of the tools in my post are US-centric. It left me wondering how much of this was caused by the fact that my area of knowledge in Local SEO is strongly tied to serving US businesses, and how much of this reflects a lack of tool development in other regions like the UK, Canada and Australia. I am not sure of the answer to this.
I believe the best-known suite of Local tools for UK users is the paid tools from BrightLocal.com. These are not free tools, of course, but they are spoken of very highly.
You might also like to check out this post by Nyagoslav Zhekov from 2012 regarding citation tools and they areas they serve. Nyagoslav has done Local SEO in more countries than anyone I know:
http://www.ngsmarketing.com/local-citation-building-tools/
The post is now a couple of years old, so I'm not 100% sure about the current status of the tools mentioned.
It would be great if someone could put together an awesome list of Local SEO tools that support countries other than the US and submit a post to YouMoz on this. Clearly, there is need for such information!
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Buddy! Its Time to create One Actually
Lets start ; Which tools We needed in UK market ? And start developing them -
Yes, I had the same problem. you can use some of the tools manually (i.e look at what they are looking for). Unfortunately I don't do a great deal of local so its' most manual submissions for me.
Good luck though.
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Thanks Chris - yes I saw this and it was certainly very valuable. Was just keen to hear from any individuals responsible for UK based websites, as a lot of the tools & techniques were US based.
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I presume you checked out yesterdays blog post - http://moz.com/blog/free-local-seo-tools
Don't forget to look in the comments as there are a few more suggestions in there too.
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Hi Wiqas - I am just after any useful tools that can help to me to identify actions for local SEO
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