4 Ways to Build Links for Local Businesses to Boost Your SEO Ranking

you have a localized business but why aren't you getting more foot traffic within your localized store everyone I'm neil patel and today i'm going to teach you how to build more local links as you know link building is one of the most important factors to increasing your search rankings the more links you have the higher you're going to rank well for local businesses you need more localized links so the first thing you want to do is check out Moz local it has a list of all the localized directories in the world you can use Moz local to get more local links especially from localized directories and some of these directories may be national or global but they have localized sections within your city such as Los Angeles so if you're based in Los Angeles a lot of these directories like even Yelp they have lists of services and businesses within that region the next thing you want to do is check out your local Chamber of Commerce every city at least in the US has one in which there's a Chamber of Commerce that helps promote other businesses within that region they have a website why not ask them for a link if you're there you're paying your taxes within the city why not get a link from that site in most cases they'll say yes so what's the harm in asking them for third you want to network with other localized businesses within your region sure some of the people may be competitors but a lot of them may not be for example if you're a beauty salon in which you paint nails and do manicures and pedicures and someone else has a hair styling company and that's all they do you guys can cross promote each other and link to each other because a lot of people who get their hair done may also want their nails done and a lot of people get their nails done may also want to get their hair done last but not least go to a trust put in your competitor URLs right your competitors within your localized region if you have any and it will show you who's linking to them head up each of those websites network with them call them get them on the phone and say hey I notice that you're linking to X Y & Z comm we have a similar business within the same region but we also offer two and three services that they don't so you should also check us out it may be useful to your website visitors and if you like us feel free and linked to us Cheers Neal that's it if you do those tactics you should get more links and your rankings will go up