Comments on: Citation Consistency: The Key to Local Search Rankings http://www.thunderseo.com/blog/citation-consistency-key-local-search-rankings/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Max Thomas http://www.thunderseo.com/blog/citation-consistency-key-local-search-rankings/#comment-260 Max Thomas Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:07:33 +0000 http://www.thunderseo.com/?p=861#comment-260 Chris – great post. Thank you for putting this together. Without a doubt, consistent use of NAP is of the utmost importance, especially considering that not only is a business responsible for keeping its own online profile up to date, but also monitor and manage the conflicting listings that are created separately. Looking at Thunder’s situation in particular, it makes me realize that Google and “local search” don’t really reward companies for moving :-) Again, great post and very helpful illustration of the various tools.

]]> By: Nyagoslav http://www.thunderseo.com/blog/citation-consistency-key-local-search-rankings/#comment-264 Nyagoslav Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:35:56 +0000 http://www.thunderseo.com/?p=861#comment-264 Chris, I currently see as the biggest plague websites that REQUIRE you to pay to claim YOUR listing on their directory. It is even worse if the listing is incorrect. As I like to out such businesses, I’d gladly mention Judysbook and Merchantcircle here. Citysearch is very close to this, too.

P.S. Gosh, the captcha on Thunder SEO’s blog is one of the hardest I’ve encountered!

]]> By: Chris Suppa http://www.thunderseo.com/blog/citation-consistency-key-local-search-rankings/#comment-262 Chris Suppa Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:23:52 +0000 http://www.thunderseo.com/?p=861#comment-262 I agree Nyagoslav, citation clean up can certainly get tricky and become a harder task than expected. That’s why organization and some time saving tricks are so helpful. Coloring systems are a great idea as you’re bound to run into related issues time and time again. Unresponsive and or hard to reach directories only make it more troubling. Yet, as stressed throughout the post, it is like it or not a very important part of the SEO process and will continue to be a priority

]]> By: Nyagoslav http://www.thunderseo.com/blog/citation-consistency-key-local-search-rankings/#comment-261 Nyagoslav Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:23:33 +0000 http://www.thunderseo.com/?p=861#comment-261 Great points here, Chris. One of the things my team and me are doing every single day is dealing with wrong/outdated/unclaimed/unfinished/duplicate local citations, and yes, organization is everything. The main problem is usually when the directory website requires phone verification. We’ve created specific coloring system in order to tackle all possible scenarios in a structured manner. I’d say citation clean-up is the hardest SEO work overall…

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