Sumter SEO Services

Yes, local search engine optimization is an awesome way to grow your business. It takes a lot of effort to rank a business properly for local search results. These results depend on prominence, which is a measurement of how trusted and well known your business is in Sumter and the general area.

Many factors contribute to local prominence in the eyes of Google: citations, links, and customer reviews. While search engines use many data points to rank your website, none are more important than these:

1. Citations/Listings – These are mentions of your local business that contain your business name, address, and phone number. You need Google My Business, Yelp, Local.com, and 45 other sites. The core citations needed to rank well locally are made up of those 48 listing sites, but there are a total of 125 that you will want created and managed to ensure the best ranks possible.

2. Positive Reviews – Reviews convince users that your service or product is the best choice. Experts estimate 82% of searchers looking for local businesses rely on customer reviews to help make their decisions. Search engines know this, and because the search engines are focused on better user experience, they use the number of positive reviews to make better search results. The right Sumter SEO company can help you get and manage reviews for your business profiles online.

3. Backlinks – Backlinks have been the root of successful SEO campaigns for two decades, and nothing has changed here. You need quality backlinks that are relevant to your site so it can rank high in search engines. Local companies need links from strong local groups like the Sumter Chamber of Commerce or local networking groups like BNI.

At our company, we create and maintain your listings for you. We also help you get customer reviews and make sure they are posted to the best business listings to drive in new customers. Along with everything else we do as search engine optimization specialists, we also work to create the highest quality and most relevant backlinks we can for your company every week.

We have been building websites since 1993 and optimizing them for search engines before search engine optimization was a term people used. Our expertise will get your company results. We spend our mornings studiying up on the latest trends in the industry like changes to the search engines themselves and new tools that might help us rank your sites faster. Our dedication to the job makes sure you’re getting the best work possible.

We’ve helped every type of business, from non-profits to large multi-national conglomerates and back to little stores on Main St. We love our jobs, and can’t imagine doing anything else. And we think you’ll see this after hiring us.

Less than half of the local business profiles on Google My Business, the local entries on the maps in search results, are claimed. The other 56% are automated profiles and not optimized. This means most of the competition haven’t claimed their profiles. In nearly every industry, in almost every city, SEO will get you to the first page of results with an affordable budget.

If competitors have done some basic work and claimed their business listing, and done some on-page of their site, you can still get ahead of them affordably by hiring an experienced SEO company like ours. When the search engines change their ranking algorithms multiple times a year, your competitors will fall behind while your website is kept up to date with the latest ranking factors. That leads to more sales for your company.

With simple, affordable SEO pricing we’re positive there isn’t a better deal on SEO. With our decades of experience, and dedication to the field, we will get your website optimized and your business more paying customers.