Miriam's 7 Local SEO Predictions for 2019

[Andrew-SEO]

Thanks Miriam this is an interesting read.

"Google will continue to dominate and monetize local search" - This is worrying as this directly affects my sector. More of the walled garden.

[MiriamEllis]

Thanks for reading, Joe! Agree with you that Internet users are demonstrating an exceedingly high level of tolerance for Big Tech misbehavior. What's in front of us is a whole new year to see whether we see fundamental change at these brands or more and worse disasters that could bring us to a tipping point. I'm hoping for the former, but worried we may see the latter.

[MiriamEllis]

Glad you found this interesting, Andrew! Thanks for stopping by. Do you have any predictions of your own to share?

[Andrew-SEO]

These are not much of a prediction as they're already happening but.....

I think clicks / pogo sticking is going to continue to influence rankings heavily. We may even one day see internal site navigation influencing this process (possibly through analytics etc - maybe not if GDPR does not allow)

I think we will see more of the idea of less content, in terms of less keyword cannibalisation and one highly targeted, high authority, highly ranking piece of content. _This could be good or bad. I like the idea of less poor content but I'm not sure about single "authorities" on a subject. _

As snippets evolve, schema will become ever more crucial. I like snippets as they are a very immediate form of content delivery however they also have the ability to block people out so again this is a double-edged sword.

The most successes I have had this year has been through combatting index bloat, implementing pagination were possible, getting the index lean, getting the right pages indexed, reconnecting backlinks and improving internal linking. _All these consistently deliver. Pretty basic stuff but it works and should be maintained. _

[MiriamEllis]

Andrew, thank you for sharing such thoughtful observations, especially in explaining what you've seen work best over the past year. Useful!

[TaylorRHawkins]

This is seriously a great list.

And very well-written to boot!

[MiriamEllis]

Thanks so much, Taylor! Do you have any predictions of your own to add?

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[Xiano]

I think one thing missing from your list is the impact of voice search. I think voice search will continue to grow everywhere, including in the local search area.

[MiriamEllis]

Definitely a good addition, Alex!

[sjjani]

I'm also looking for the local SEO solution for my Two Way Radio website that working on the device repairing.

[Adlanera]

Nowadays, it's too easy to do Local SEO for your website. I'm working on a project of artificial grass Malaysia that is a local-based project and I have seen many good result in Google.