Cedar Rapids SEO Services

Yes, local search engine optimization is a great way to get business. It takes a lot of time and effort to rank properly in local results. These results depend on prominence, which is a measurement of how well known and trusted your business is in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding area.

Multiple details contribute to prominence in the eyes of a search engine: citations, backlinks, and customer reviews. While Google uses many other data points to rank your site, none are more critical than these 3:

1. Citations/Listings – Mentions of your local business that have your company name, address, and phone number. These start with Google My Business, Yelp, Local.com, and 45 other listings. The core citations needed to get good rankings locally are made up of those 48 sites, but there are over 100 more that you will want created and managed to ensure the best ranks possible.

2. Reviews – Reviews prove to users that your service or product is the best choice. An estimated 82% of people searching for local companies rely on reviews to make decisions. Google knows this, and because the search engines are focused on great user experience, they use the number of positive reviews to make better search results. A great Cedar Rapids SEO firm will help you get and manage positive reviews for your company listings online.

3. Links – Backlinks have been the root of successful search engine optimization campaigns for 15 years, and thats not going to change anytime soon. You want quality links that are relevant to your site so it can rank high in the search engines. Local businesses need specific links from strong local groups like the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce or local networking groups like BNI.

At our company, we create and maintain your citations for you. We also help you gather reviews and make sure they are posted to the best business listings to drive in new business. Along with everything else we do as SEO experts, we also work to build the highest quality and most relevant backlinks we can for your company every week.

We have been building websites since the early 90s and optimizing them for search engines before search engine optimization was a term people used. Our decades of experience will deliver your company results. Every morning we spend reading up on daily news in the industry including changes to the search engines or new tools that might help us work faster and smarter. This commitment to excellence makes sure you’re getting the best work possible.

We have helped every business type, from non-profits to large international companies and back to little mom and pop stores on Main St. We love our jobs, and can’t imagine doing anything else. You will see this when working with us.

Less than half of the local company profiles on Google, the ones that can show up in the search results on the map, are claimed and maintained. The other 56% are automated profiles and not optimized. This shows most of your competition haven’t claimed their profiles and aren’t doing SEO either. In almost every city, in nearly every industry, SEO will get you to the front page with an affordable budget.

If your competitors have done some basic work and claimed their profiles, and done some optimization of their site, you can still move ahead of them by hiring an experienced SEO company like ours. With the search engines changing their ranking algorithms every times a year, your competitors will lose rankings while we keep your SEO up to date with the latest ranking factors and trends. That means more sales for your company.

With simple SEO pricing we’re sure there isn’t a better deal on search engine optimization. With many years of experience, and dedication to the field, we will get your website optimized and your business more new customers.