Improve your local rankings using citations

Following an article we published this week on the Advanced Web Ranking Blog about optimizing for local search (http://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/optimizing-for-local-search/), I thought it’s a good idea to speak about one of the Advanced Link Manager’s features which can help you increase your local rankings using citations.
As you already know citacions are references of a local listing from websites and they represent an important ranking factor. The citations are displayed in Google Maps under the Web Pages section of a listing and include a link to the reference page, a title and a description. The page where the citation is displayed contains the same information as your listing and the websites which contain citations are most of the times niche directories.
Google Maps Webpage Importer (link) can help you improve your rankings in Google Maps using competitive analysis to  new citations for your listing. It let’s you check the Web Pages of different listings and import them in your project. You can later use those Web Pages to get yourself citations of your listing.
Targeting local listings in Google Maps can secure you an increase in sales and revenue. But similar with the web search, local listings are returned by algorithms which follow ranking guidelines.
Using a targeted keyword and the Web Page’s search depth you can get the your competitor’s Web Pages and use them to get yopurself citations. For a better analysis you can also select the option to retrieve the page rank of the found Web Pages.
The Web Pages are citations (references) of that listing from other websites and represent an important ranking factor in local search. By getting an having a good idea about your competitor’s web pages, you can then try obtaining listings from the same websites as your competitors.
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For detailed instructions on how to use the Google Maps Webpages Importer, please follow the instructions outlined in the Google Maps Webpages Importer section in our User Guide.(http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/user-guide/html€n/ch17.html)
Google Maps Webpages Importer

Google Maps Webpages Importer

Following an article we published this week on the Advanced Web Ranking Blog about optimizing for local search, I thought it’s a good idea to speak about one of the Advanced Link Manager’s features which can help you increase your local rankings using citations.

As you already know citations are references of a local listing from websites and they represent an important ranking factor for local search. The citations are displayed in Google Maps under the Web Pages section of a listing and include a link to the reference page, a title and a description. The page where the citation is displayed contains the same information as the listing and the websites which contain citations are most of the times niche directories.

Google Maps Webpages Importer can help you improve your rankings in Google Maps using competitive analysis to get new citations for your listing. It let’s you check the Web Pages of different listings and import them in your project. You can later use those Web Pages to get yourself citations for your listing.

Targeting local listings in Google Maps can secure you an increase in sales and revenue. But similar with the web search, local listings are returned by algorithms which follow ranking guidelines. Continue reading

Analyze Domain Quality

Analyze Domain QualityAnalyze Domain Quality is a new feature available from the version 7.0, which allows you to analyze the quality of one or multiple domains. They can be your own domains, your competitors domains or domains of your potential link partners from where you are looking to get links. The Analyze Domain Quality tool helps you check if a link from a specific domain can add value to your link popularity.

You can access the Analyze Domain Quality from the [Tools] menu. In the new window you can add domains manually, import them from a file or by parsing an URL. Continue reading

How I keep track of bloggers reviews with ALM

Track ReferrersYou may already know that if you are a blogger or an Internet columnist and write a review about Advanced Link Manager or Advanced Web Ranking, you get an Enterprise license free of charge.

From the time we published this offer we received lots and lots of emails from people who wanted to spread the word about our applications. To thank them for their efforts we rewarded them with a free license.

Since we started, I am managing and keep track of all these reviews. Sometimes this task becomes time consuming, but it’s worth doing it. In this short article I want to share with you the entire process of doing that.

In Advanced Link Manager I keep track of reviews, see if they are still linking back and keep details of the bloggers who wrote the articles.

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