Local Search Ranking Factors

Local SEO is very important to increase your local website traffic. Recently Google has changed many updates for SEO pit of view. In this SEO infograghic are depicted recent trends for local SEO. High quality directory citations, name, address, phone & review are very important factors. Over the course of past year, we have seen the search engine result pages that Google returns for Local Intent searches get more more and more complex. Google Plus was formally launched in late June of last year. Much more important were the "Panda", "Venice" and "Penguin" algorithm updates that took down a lot of low quality websites (albeit almost none of them traditional small business sites). Participants were asked to rank 90 possible positive factors and 18 possible negative factors that drive Google's Local Search algorithms. Check out the results in the infographic below. Via: http://www.annexcore.com/