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Why Hyper Local SEO is lekker

Let’s start with the obvious: SEO is a powerful tool that allows a business to gain traction with customers via organic traffic. What is less well understood is the multiple varieties of SEO and how each help a brand reach customers who are looking for specific products and/or services.

Take local SEO, for example, we know that the intent behind the bulk of business-related searches is local, with most containing a variant of the ‘near me’ phrase. That alone makes it pretty clear that every business should invest in tools and techniques that get them to rank at the top of local search results.

Why Hyper Local SEO is lekker
Why Hyper Local SEO is lekker

There’s just one problem… Anyone who’s had the displeasure of trying to improve their local listings one directory at a time is all too familiar with how daunting a process it can be. Supplying the required information, waiting for approval, and trying to consolidate listings that already exist for your business: Just the act of reading that list is exhausting. Now imagine having to actually action the listed tasks.

You could easily spend hours of your time on this process, and that’s just for one directory. And if you have to do it for multiple franchise sites, it gets even more difficult.

What’s the solution?

One word: YEXT.
YEXT is a software tool designed to manage a business’s location-related information on a host of directory websites across the web. Known simply as an aggregator. Apart from its ability to monitor what your consumers are saying about you in real time, it also allows you to adjust or recommend operational changes based on said insights. For small businesses with just a handful of locations that aren’t going to be moving any time soon, YEXT is all but useless. But for large franchises such as Steers that need to manage hundreds of locations that may move, open, or close regularly, YEXT is the perfect tool.

How do we use it?

Gone are the days when casting your net as wide as possible yielded the best results. When consumers search for products, services, or businesses; they want results that are at arm’s length. Even when the phrase ‘near me’ is absent from a search, users want Google to use their location to determine the search results it sends them. According to Google, these searchers have grown by 150%.

Numbers don’t lie

From a resource perspective, it would be far too time-consuming to update each restaurant page individually. This is precisely why Famous Brands outsourced the responsibility of updating these pages to us. That’s all well and good, but what are the results?

Digital presence (since we started using YEXT):

2 577 individual locations

196 513 location fields

718 703 location changes

77 071 touchpoints throughout the digital ecosystem

Calls to action recorded (since we started using YEXT):

7 430 917 phone calls

2 921 313 driving directions calls to action

1 623 939 clicks to the websites

Parting note

The spray and pray approach to marketing is slowly but surely being relegated to the rubbish bin of history. Hyperlocal digital marketing isn’t an act of sabotaging: it’s an effective way to target prospective customers right where they are – at home, at the office, or the store around the corner. Why are we obsessed with communities? Because experience has taught us that catering to an individual’s needs (right down to minute details like their location) works better than trying to be all things to everyone.

Why Hyper Local SEO is lekker
5 Jun 2022 08:17

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