Welcome everyone, my name is Max from Max Made Marketing and SEO services.

Now, today in this video I wanted to give some SEO tips and pointers for you local businesses here in Rancho Cucamonga, California to help you out rank some of the local competition in your fields and industries within the Rancho Cucamonga area. Specifically we’re going to be talking about Google My Business and some best SEO practices for that to help you rank higher and hopefully get some more conversions so let’s go over those.

The first couple things may seem a bit obvious, but so many local businesses neglect this which negatively impacts their SEO. We simply don’t want to do that if we have a business because that’s bad business practice and you’re losing out on potential revenue.

We’re going to be using my Google My Business just as an example so I can show you guys real quick. Anywhere that google my business is giving you an opportunity to put information about your company you want to make sure that you fill it out as that’s going to give more opportunities for you to become relevant for certain search queries that are made by people.

So, obviously, I’m an SEO services agency and SEO services company so I want to make sure that I get those keywords in my main description so when people make those searches I’m more likely to pop up higher in the local search results. This is also called “the local map pack” which is that map and then the three results under it. 

If you’re searching for, let’s say, like a painter in Rancho Cucamonga, California, you’ll get three results that are under a map that’s called “the local map pack” and all of these tips will help you to rank in those top three positions for a relevant search to your business.

Second, is to make sure you have your services, or your menu, or product descriptions filled out. So, obviously, if you’re a restaurant you want to make sure you have your menu on your google my business profile; if you are a painter you want to make sure that you have all your services filled out so if you’re a painter in Rancho Cucamonga you want to make sure that you have all the different services that you do offer and the same goes for if you are of a product based business.

Now, let’s go over to photos. We want to make sure that where we can get photos up that we get those up and we do it regularly. 

So the first thing that does help with the ranking factors is getting both inside and outside photos of your location which helps to show relevancy and proximity to where you are at so when that comes to the photos you can upload at work, or different videos, team photos. I recommend as well getting at least three photos related to your team, your employees at your business in Rancho Cucamonga. Again, this helps to strengthen your profile and show its legitimacy so you want to make sure that you get those in there.

Something that also helps too is if you geotag your photos. What that is, if you don’t know,  it’s when you put specific location coordinates tagged to your photo. You can do that in some free tools online, I use something called “tool.geoimager.com” and you can do it for free and then put whatever location you

want.

Obviously, you’re going to want to have photos that are in the Rancho Cucamonga California area which will help to boost your SEO a little bit, not a ton but it will boost the SEO a little bit when you upload photos that are geotagged.

Another tip you can do or that I recommend to follow is make a post for each service or product, and the location with links to pages on your website. For example, let’s go back to our Rancho Cucamonga painter example, so you’re going to want to create what’s called a post which you have all different types

of posts. Let’s say you do just general house painting, you want to make up a post to describe exactly

what that service is and then have a link on that post back to the webpage on your website that’s relevant to that service.

Obviously on your website you’re going to want to have a specific page for each service that you offer, which is good SEO practice as well, and in those posts on your GMB you want to link back to those specific pages that are relevant or correlate to whatever your product or service is.

Something that you should do, which is good SEO practice, is that if you’re a painter in Rancho Cucamonga you probably don’t paint only in Rancho Cucamonga. You probably paint maybe in Ontario or Fontana or Upland in the surrounding cities, so you want to make a post that says “I do commercial building painting in Ontario, California” as well. 

Then you’ll put photos that are geo relevant to that and you should also have a page on your website that goes after that keyword, so you would say “Commercial Painting Ontario California” for that specific service and location. Also create a post on your GMB with those keywords as well.

Something you also want to make sure you do, is get the correct schema markup on your website.

Basically what that is it’s just small pieces of code that you put into your website or on specific web pages

that tell Google what that page is about or what your website is about. On your specific service pages you’re going to want to have a service schema to tell the search engines what that page is about. That can get you more rich results in search engines tied to that and can also build the relevancy and visibility of your Google My Business profile.

Going down to pictures again, you want to make sure you add a picture of each service, and of each location with the appropriate keyword which we touched on earlier which, again, is good SEO practice. So when somebody searches for “Painting in Upland California”, as long as you’ve been going after that keyword, you are more likely to rank higher in that for when somebody searches something like that.

Something that is often overlooked by local businesses in Rancho Cucamonga or wherever, is the FAQ on Google My Business. Here’s my GMB as an example, there’s a question and answers section so you can ask a question or have any of your potential customers ask a question to clear something up. You want to utilize the FAQ section and get questions on here and answer them. Try to get the questions that people often ask you that are relevant to your business. Then get the right keywords in those questions and answers as well try to get a few of those each month, five to ten even better.

Finally, probably one of the most important, if not the most important, tip I have for you to rank higher in Rancho Cucamonga is to continue building reviews and responding to those reviews. The more active you are on your profile, the more likely to show google that you are a legitimate business and that you conduct good business because you’re interacting with your clients. Make sure that you respond. I hope that this gives you a little bit of insight and tips to help you rank a bit higher in the Rancho Cucamonga California area and in the meantime: take care and feel free to reach out with any questions.