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It can take a while. Be patient. If it's a new domain it could even take weeks, months since search will be dampened for new domains.

We're doing that but still no luck. We have more links and reviews and higher DA but we're still not showing up on local. Thoughts?

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Hi Scott, My apologies for you not receiving a speedier reply. First, be sure you're using as many Google categories as are applicable to your business, while not being redundant. In other words, you can have both "physical therapist" and "sports medicine clinic" as categories if they accurately describe what your business is. Review the categories you've chosen in your GMB dashboard to be sure you've made the most of what's available to you. Next, if you have a menu of different services you offer, you can use a google menu to list those out. I can't guarantee that this will impact what you rank for, but it is at least a feed of data you are giving Google about what you business should be a candidate for. Beyond this, your ability to rank for different terms is going to be based on a number of different factors including your reviews and your organic strength. You will need to focus strongly on the organic content of your website and the links this content earns that describes these various services in hopes of this building your authority around these topics in a way that is strong enough to influence how Google views your business in relationship to these secondary search terms. Highly authoritative brands can rank for many, many terms in their overall service or product menu, so building authority over time is your goal here.

Hey Scott! 1. Yes, exactly you will ideally use your geo-specific keywords in your title tags, meta description and on page content. For instance, you can see that some of your competitors are doing just that: https://swfna.com/specialized-services/ 2. For the structured data, you might need to have a developer look into that. Where you make the change depends on how the schema is coded. Let me know if you have any other questions: chris.long@gofishdigital.com

I've just entered your website: https://bimfitnessandperformance.com/ After 4 seconds of playing the video, i get redirected and im unable to watch the video. From my point of view this is a negative user experience and I would try to fix that first.

Hi there, The best way to do this is to do email outreach. Ross

A lot depends on how much competition there is for those keywords. If you're not ranking, it's either because you haven't (a) given it enough time to see your rankings go up, or (b) you haven't overcome the strength of your competition for those keywords. First I would take a look at the pages you are trying to rank for and make sure that they are highly relevant for your keywords, contain helpful information for your target audience, and are optimized onsite (on-page SEO). Then I would just focus on creating link-worthy content around your keywords and post on social media and other blogging sites, sharing your link back to your main content. In turn, you'll hopefully get others to share your content, helping increase the number of backlinks that are pointing to the pages you are trying to rank. Just remember to focus on user experience and optimize for both your users and the search engines, not just the search engines. I hope this helps.

Hello there, I have a bit more different opinion than others I would choose to include the city as part of your keyword, the reason is simple, do a Google search with and without city from the keyword, which one do you think it's more relevant? Don't forget your longer tail keyword (/w city name) also included your general keyword as well (/wo city name), so there's basically no harm I can think of to include your city name. But of course, make sure you also use the properly structured data as well. Some would also suggest that your homepage shouldn't be optimized for keywords, but I don't think there's one-rule-for-all in SEO, especially if you aren't a big brand and just starting out in SEO, your homepage is generally your most linked page with the highest ranking chance. So I would not waste the opportunity to rank keywords with my homepage.