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We have a website design firm located in India. We wanted to target customers in our city who are looking for website design locally. And with google plus local and a few content marketing would get us into first page very soon because none in the competition is using social signals or even content marketing. BUT unfortunately from last month even though our Google Places is verified we cant verify our Google Local Plus page https://plus.google.com/b/116513400635428782065/

It just shows error 500. Its a bug and its been a year for people without it being addressed. So we are skeptical if our strategy  would work without Google+.

At the least we decided we would just make company local page and connect it with website. But it might not have effect as local. So we are still unsure which step to take either to wait for google to fix it.(feedbacks emails calls nothing worked) OR We start the process with Google Business Category.

I am obliged to hear outstanding comments from you
And I am pretty sure I have found my answer.

In India good companies are focused on outsourcing so usually local business is ignored by prominent companies. That's why not even a single company focused on content marketing which was a shock to me. Their long standing domains and 80,000+ Links over these years are may be the only reason they are still ranked. But with good on page and content strategy I think it isnt going to be tough road. Like Chris mentioned, the tough part is done. Now comes the easy part.

My target audience is mainly searching for it on google only. Mostly unaware of whether they should actually get a website and what the heck is this seo kind of clients so i am gonna start a blog post explaining these answers one by one in blog posts with nice infographics.

Like 1) keyword targeted - "ecommerce website design"

A nice infographic explanation of how ecommerce is hitting big in india and what are the future expectations and then "get your business ready for the future. You are just in time. get a perfect e commerce website for your business. and then link to homepage"

Just like these i intend to do niche specific blog posts too such as wedding websites, real estate websites.

Greetings,

I have started up a team of web designers. But we are located in a very competitive market and having a fairly new domain our chances are narrow standing out in the seo for a while. But to my notice most of the top search results for website design related terms don't use rich snippet or don't even have quality links from high end websites. So we believe we stand a chance with content marketing. As the competition is nowhere in social signals we plan on using content marketing by adding a blog. Now I am short on content/blog ideas. So any help in it would be a great help. Our focus is primarily on website design and search engine optimization.

Thanks

How about adding a link at the footer "site creation by xyz" and that takes to a page which is dedicated page meant to describe the work done by designer.

This way the page we create will get the authority from homepage and thus becomes more credible source of information for google.

I have a web design firm located in India,

At this moment we are focusing on local clients as the current competition in local market is very low. But in few months we will shift our focus to outsourcing. So I wanted to know if we should make a google plus local page and connect it with my google places account and website or should I make a google plus business page and connect it to website?

Our major focus is on seo.

Thanks