Outbound Links for Local SEO

[triveraseo]

I am working on building an area guide page for a local hotel website. The hotel itself has a lot to offer in forms of on-site entertainment and they are concerned about sending people away from their website (and their business). However, it's also important to write about the area and local attractions in close proximity to their hotel for many reasons, including building local authority.

Is there any benefit to adding links to the Google My Business/map listing of the local attractions? Or can we just simply not include external links?

[Salience_Search_Marketing]

Hey,

We absolutely recommend externally linking to local relevant attractions.

This is great from a user point of view as you are endorsing local events/services/attractions which is more likely to encourage customers to stay in that area and hopefully your hotel.

Additionally, you are giving Google clear signals that your hotel website is relevant to that local area because of the geo citations and building of local authority.

Hope this helps!

Salience