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The Importance of NAP to your customers<\/h3>\n
The importance of your name, address, and phone number online should not be overlooked. Being in as many places as you can where potential customers might find you give a real boost to<\/span> Local SEO<\/span><\/a>. And isn\u2019t that what Search Engine Optimization is all about, helping consumers find you?<\/span><\/p>\n Google values providing accurate information to its users. Your NAP information for your business needs to be correct when optimizing your website for local search.\u00a0 Google also values the consistency of that information wherever it appears online.<\/p>\n You need to make sure the information about your business is accurate and consistent across credible sources. Don\u2019t assume that search engines and customers are going to find the right NAP info if there are different names, addresses, and wrong phone numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n Businesses with accurate and consistent listings across directories are rewarded by search engines with a more favorable position in search results. If your business listings are inconsistent you may be losing business or making it difficult for customers to even get in touch.<\/span><\/p>\n If people looking for your business get the wrong address or phone number for the local area they are searching, they may give up finding you and go elsewhere. A survey by BrightLocal found that \u201c80% of consumers lose trust in local businesses if they see incorrect or inconsistent contact details or business names online.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Some other statistics from their survey of consumers showed:<\/span><\/p>\n Your local citations, your NAP,\u00a0 can be in a blog, your website or another website, social media, etc.. The more places your business information appears online the better for SEO and the more prominent your business appears to Google and other search engines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To really get your info out there where search engines will more easily notice it, use <\/span>online business directories<\/b><\/a>. Online business directories are websites that list the NAP info of businesses in niche-based categories. Businesses can be categorized by niche, location, activity, or size.<\/span><\/p>\n Each online directory listing for your business is like a new webpage where your business can be discovered by new customers. The more local business directories you have, the more visible the business and the more opportunities to be found.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There are thousands of business directories, these are some of the well-known ones:<\/span> Depending on the business directory, you can include information such as:<\/span> While there are many citation sites, you don\u2019t want to get your business listed on the low-quality directories. Getting listed on spammy or low-quality directories can result in lower local SEO rankings, hurting your search results, and your relationship with Google.<\/span><\/p>\n Online directories scrape the internet for businesses\u2019 information, sorting, categorizing, compiling and adding that information to their database. They do this so their local directory will become a quality resource that Google uses when it needs to find local business information.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if you don\u2019t add your NAP data to online directories, there are likely some online listings already made for you. If you don’t claim these listings, someone else could and that can hurt your business. Also, the information may be wrong or has changed recently.<\/span><\/p>\n The best practice for local businesses is to place your NAP data in your header and footer to make it easy for people and search engines to find. By showing your business name, address and phone number in both the header and footer, this will make sure your NAP information appears on every page of your website. It’s also important to place your NAP info on your contact page.<\/span><\/p>\n To get the best results for any given search, add a local business Schema markup to your website. This allows search engines to understand your NAP info better. That way, user-friendly rich snippets can appear in local search results. The Google Structured Data Markup Helper can create schema markup for your local business.<\/span><\/p>\n You need to make sure the information about your business is accurate and consistent across credible sources. Don\u2019t assume that search engines and customers are going to find the right NAP info if there are different names, addresses, and wrong phone numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n Businesses with accurate and consistent listings across directories are rewarded by search engines with a more favorable position in search results. If your business listings are inconsistent you may be losing business or making it difficult for customers to even get in touch.<\/span><\/p>\n If people looking for your business get the wrong address or phone number for the local area they are searching, they may give up finding you and go elsewhere. A survey by BrightLocal found that \u201c80% of consumers lose trust in local businesses if they see incorrect or inconsistent contact details or business names online.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Some other statistics from their survey of consumers showed:<\/span><\/p>\n Google and other search engines use data they have gathered about your business to determine your ranking. A large number of accurate citations on high-quality websites encourages Google to trust the data it holds about your local business. The more places you show up, the more popular you look. And rankings are a big popularity contest basically, so it gives you a boost in the rankings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If your competitors have fewer local citations in business directories than your business does, this can give you a competitive advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n With local SEO, small to medium-sized businesses is able to compete with larger, more established companies in a local area. To level the playing field a properly implemented campaign of Local Citations will help optimize for local searches. With that, search engines will put your site ahead for specific and geo-targeted queries.<\/span><\/p>\n Let PrimeView build high quality, consistent local citations for your business!<\/span><\/p>\n Building citations is a time-consuming process \u2013 it\u2019s important to invest the time to do it right. PrimeView can take this important marketing task off your hands so you can focus on managing your business. By creating and updating your citations, it helps to boost your local authority in Google. We find the right listing sites for your niche and only ones that will improve your organic search results.<\/span><\/p>\n To make it easier for customers to find and reach your business on the Internet. We can provide these citation services:<\/span><\/p>\n Contact us today<\/span><\/a> and let\u2019s improve your<\/span> Local SEO<\/span><\/a>, boost your website rankings, and get you found online with our Local Citation Directory Publishing Service!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is a \u201cLocal Citation\u201d? A local citation is any mention of your business on the internet. 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Why is it important to have consistent and accurate NAP across the web<\/h3>\n
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Where to place your NAP info?<\/h3>\n
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NAP on your website<\/h3>\n
Insert NAP in your header and footer<\/h3>\n
Insert NAP in your website\u2019s schema markup<\/h3>\n
Why is it important to have consistent and accurate NAP across the web<\/h3>\n
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How does NAP help your website rankings and Local SEO?<\/h3>\n
Compete with larger businesses<\/h3>\n
PrimeView Directory Publishing Service<\/h3>\n
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