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Thank you, Alick300 - but that article seem to give advice to businesses that actually have brick and mortar stores/local addresses.

What I am looking for is ideas on how to rank locally when ones business is NOT local, but target local keywords/customers with it's services.

Hope someone outhere can help

BR

Christian

Hi folks,

We have developed a site that connect local consumers with local businesses (brick and mortar).

The keywords that consumers search for are e.g. "plumber san diego" or "hairdresser" + "local area" and so on...good old fashioned local searches. Sometimes even without the location added in the search.

But how do we BEST optimize our site to get the most organic traffic from these local searches?

We don't have brick and mortar stores or offices but our service is of high value and will save consumers lots of money and even help the local businesses when in need of extra customers.

Thanks in advance for all your input.

Have a nice day.

Chris

Hi Laura,

Thank you for your answer.

• No comment spam.

• No malware found using Sucuri

• No problems found using site:example.com

(and the above is the reason why I am a surprised - I have never seen this before)

So ony reason I can think of is the old site was spammed/hacked and the new site is not...?

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your answer.

The site is build in Wordpress.

I have sent you a PM with my website (couldn't find your name, so I pm'ed iq SEO)

Best regards

Hi all,

When I looked in Google Webmaster Tools today I found under the menu Google Index, Content Keywords, that the list is full of spammy keywords (E.g. Viagra (no. 1) and stuff like that)

Around april we built a whole new website, uploaded a new xml-sitemap, and did all the other things Google Webmaster Tools suggest when one is creating a Google Webmaster Account.

Under the menu "Security Issues" nothing is mentioned.

All together I find it har d to believe that the site is hacked - so WHY is Google finding these content keywords on our site??

Should I fear that this will harm my SEO efforts?

Best regards,

Christian

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your answer.

The site is build in Wordpress.

I have sent you a PM with my website (couldn't find your name, so I pm'ed iq SEO)

Best regards

Hi folks,

We have developed a site that connect local consumers with local businesses (brick and mortar).

The keywords that consumers search for are e.g. "plumber san diego" or "hairdresser" + "local area" and so on...good old fashioned local searches. Sometimes even without the location added in the search.

But how do we BEST optimize our site to get the most organic traffic from these local searches?

We don't have brick and mortar stores or offices but our service is of high value and will save consumers lots of money and even help the local businesses when in need of extra customers.

Thanks in advance for all your input.

Have a nice day.

Chris

Hi Laura,

Thank you for your answer.

• No comment spam.

• No malware found using Sucuri

• No problems found using site:example.com

(and the above is the reason why I am a surprised - I have never seen this before)

So ony reason I can think of is the old site was spammed/hacked and the new site is not...?