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Applying Local SEO for your Business’s Landing Pages

If you run a local business and have a website, then you likely have a series of pages for your targeted location(s). You might even have supplemental pages that target cities and towns near your physical location. Done right, this can be a solid strategy to scale your marketing and make local customers aware of your business.

Sadly, these pages are not always crafted with the finest detail. Usually, they’re simply template pages, with only one or two details changed for each location. This can end up causing location greed, where a business targets towns that they might not even be near but still want to get the boost for the towns that they do want to rank for. To quell this, Google has released an update to their doorway pages algorithm, which could catch your business in the crossfire if you’re not careful. Here are some tips to help give you the local boost you need for your landing pages.

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Mountain Commerce Updated to Now Include Filtering Module

In a recent update to its E-Commerce platform, Mountain Media has now given its e-commerce clients the ability to create filtering for their products. “You can create an unlimited number of attributes and values to assign to products in our filtering module” says Mountain Media CTO Scott Fultz. Currently, the filtering module is only available to customers who use the responsive design framework for Mountain Commerce. This filter module allows you to sort by common attributes such as brand, color, and price. However, additional attributes can be chosen as shown below.

Additionally, in the most recent update, auto-subscribe features have been included to help ease of use with email marketing customers. Curious about our e-commerce platform and design options? Shoot us an email or give us a call at 888-583-0300.

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Why You Should Include Video On Your Landing Pages

In the past we’ve talked about the best practices for landing pages we’ve even given tips about some ways to help improve conversions. However, one thing we haven’t gone over yet with landing pages is using video to help you get your message to your customers.

The long and short of it is video should be used on your landing pages whenever possible. It provides your customer with a way to passively engage with you and experience your message with little effort on their part.

A case study by Eye View Digital showed that by using video you can possibly increase your landing page’s conversion rates by up to 80%! As a certain car dealer says, “That’s Huge!” Additionally, people have been inundated with video since the middle of the 20th century. Web-based video content has such an impact on the way content is consumed it’s what made YouTube the internet’s video search engine.

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The A To Z Guide to Local SEO for Ecommerce

With Google making local results more and more prevalent these days, especially with the incoming “buy now” button, Local SEO is more then a convenience, it is quickly becoming another necessity for businesses to succeed.

The internet has opened the doors to countless opportunities. For artists and writers, it has allowed them to showcase and promote their work online and reach out to new audiences they might not have otherwise reached. For businesses, this allows you to expand your presence while not having to worry about investing in more brick-and-mortar stores. If you run a business that has an online store in addition to its brick-and-mortar locations, you should seriously consider investing in your online presence. Not only is it cost-effective, but when done right, can help you attract the right customers faster. The solution: Local SEO.

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5 Things To Think About With Mobile Landing Pages

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With us now more than a month into Google’s “Mobile-Friendly” update the writing is clearly on the wall to make sure your customers can reach your content anytime, anywhere. Just to give you an idea how important it is to make sure your landing pages are mobile friendly, last year, eMarketer did a study predicting that smartphone usage was going to break the 2 billion mark. Additionally, earlier this month, Google released a statement saying that mobile has surpassed desktop usage for search. So with that in mind we’ve put together 10 of the best top practices you should consider when updating your landing pages to meet your audience’s mobile needs.

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