If you do business in the capital, you know our city is really special.

Washington DC is different. On escalators we walk Left and stand right, spring is our prettiest times even when it’s freezing, we ask you what you do  to determine networking value. 

Regardless of our cultural differences from the rest of the nation DC is bustling. From Federal Triangle to Union Stations and beyond, DC is one of the fastest-growing cities in America.

That is why local SEO is important for your business.

Over 80% of mobile phone owners conduct local DC searches and that number is even more for tablets. Around 83% of tablet owners  and 96% of people who own a PC  look for local products and services using search engines.

Our team of DC SEO agents will make sure that all of those local searches that people are doing already, point to your business, service or product and convert effectively into sales.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you are a business owner in the Washington DC area, stop thinking about competing with the big brand names online. We can help you dominate your local market. 

One of the most common mistakes businesses make is that they spend a large amount of money competing and trying to rank in higher in google search results for keywords that are owned and dominated by big box brands.

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For a business local search engine optimization or SEO for short does wonders in bringing in more foot traffic, calls and raising awareness. The ideal way to get found locally is to be able to rank in the top 3 slots under the map.  This is known as the "google 3 pack" and these results show up during local searches

Here’s is what a DC local search for restaurants looks like…

Traffic like this is vital and valuable for any type of  dc business. 86% of these local searchers will either make a call to a business, get directions and actually visit the store in person or make a purchase offline. 

Now 64% of those local searches will lead to a direct purchase or sale and that percentage increases if they are on their phones

As a business owner you want to do everything in your power to rank highly in Google local search in DC. Your goal should be that your business is easily found on the map you see on this page, and you rank higher and above your competition when DC customers do a search for your business type. 

The first thing to fully understand is that local search results depend greatly on authority. How well known and trusted is your business in DC? That  is what prominence and authority mean to google. Because to them they want to provide the best user experience and in doing so only wish to send visitors to trust worthy and useful websites. If you take a moment to think about it, it makes total sense.

There are three main factors that directly relate to your local page authority and these are reviews, citations and backlinks. These can either tremendously impact your website positively or negatively in DC SEO results.

1) So what are citations? These are other places around the web that mention your physical  DC business location . Often times these mentions include your business name, number, and address. The most common and well known local citation sites are Google+, yellowpages.com, yelp and more. But something very interesting is that google also counts online citations in newspaper sites like WashingtonPost , blogs, and events sites..

2) Reviews are equally important. Think about yourself when your looking for a second opinion on where to do business what do you look for? reviews right? These really matter and the public opinion about your business is taken into account by google as well from sites like google  itself, Yelp, CitySearch etc Google actually takes into account the number as well as the quality of reviews in order to help determine your local search ranking.

3) Backlinks from more authoritative and well establish websites in the local area is the final ingredient  for ranking well in local search. Getting links from the DC Chamber of Commerce or from a local DC networking group should be your first steps because these are instrumental.