{"id":17524,"date":"2023-03-02T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:45:02","slug":"8-statistics-that-prove-the-importance-of-local-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/8-statistics-that-prove-the-importance-of-local-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Statistics That Prove the Importance of Local SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a business that has a physical location for customers to visit, you must optimise for local SEO so that more people can find you through search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about it, if you are looking for a local shop in a place that you have not been to before, what do you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take out your phone, open a search engine like Google, and search for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your own customers are no different, and if your business appears at the top when they make a search on Google, they are more likely to go to your store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact over 45% of all searches made on Google are from people looking for something local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/what-is-local-seo\/\">Local SEO<\/a> plan will massively impact your business by increasing the number of people that find your store via Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carefully read these 8 statistics that prove the importance of Local SEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"local-seo-statistics\">Local SEO Statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Over 45% of Google searches are made from people looking for something local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> 78% Of location-based searches made on a mobile device convert into an offline purchase being made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Google offers a free local listing called a \u2018Google My Business\u2019 listing and 56% of local businesses have not claimed theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Over 50% of users visit a store within a day of finding it through a local search!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> 28% of the time local-based searches end in a purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> When making a local search 92% of users will only look at the first page of search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> 33% of people who use smartphones to search for a company are looking for its location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> The average mobile user spends about 4 hours a day on their smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your business sells products or services in a localized area, and not just online, you <strong>must <\/strong>optimize for Local SEO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a business that has a physical location for customers to visit, you must optimise for local SEO so that more people can find you through search engines.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":17523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[58],"tags":[355,98],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iscripts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}