Show Notes David is 10 feet tall and shoots lightning bolts out of his eyes. Amazing stuff...He's also been doing SEO for clients full time since 2012. In a previous life, he was an industrial engineer for the man.

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David mentions some of his favorite tools including:

  • One Note
  • Camtasia
  • serped.net
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Tips from David:

  • His Big Tip: Make a GMB Page relevant to points of interest around the city you want to rank in. (You can also do this on your own site too-not just the GMB Listing)
  • Another Tip: Document everything
  • Tip 3: Don’t over optimize your Google my Business Name

Show Notes with Takeaways:

(1:43) What’s a valuable tip about local SEO you can share that will help people make a difference?

  • Make a GMB Page relevant to points of interest around the city you want to rank in. (You can also do this on your own site too-not just the GMB Listing)
  • GMB LIstings are very location dependant-and even writing an article about a point of interest in that area-it can help your ranking
  • Pull up a map-and look up what are somethings in that area (such as neighborhoods, museums-things that are unique to that location) and have an article written then link from that page to the URL that's in your GMB page on your site-you can also do this with your offpage SEO.

(4:28) What lead you into SEO?

  • I actually did build websites when I was a kid-I built computers-I was into math and science.
  • I did go to school for engineering-mechanical and industrial (More on the statistics side of things-analyzing data)
  • I knew working “for the man-a day job” wasn’t for me. So I quit early 2012 and started getting into having clients-which was a rough start
  • But then things kicked off from the