A list of the best local-search-related articles of 2012 as compiled by Nyagoslav Zhekov of NGS Marketing. Very comprehensive. You're likely to find anything and everything you need here. It's a portal to a vast and rich array of local SEO resources.
Some business owners want to rank well in Google’s local search results and beyond, but don’t want their street addresses to be easily findable online. This is a breakdown of the major local directories, indicating which ones don't require a physical address on submission.
Use this free tool from 51Blocks.com to create your sites GEO Meta Tags, hCard, KML file and GEO Sitemap all from 1 form.
Basic-level presentation on Local SEO for O'Reilly Where Conference April 4th, 2012 by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz
A rationale and how-to guide for local citation building.
Citation sources for the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Provides to links to citation sources for other countries and a link to ethnic and identity specific sources/sites.
Are you creating pages on your site that target specific cities where you want to rank well in the organic search results for local businesses? If so, you'd be crazy not to spend a little time making those pages unique - that is, clearly and substantially different from each other.
The best way to learn how to do local SEO is to do it yourself. For that, you either need someone to tell you what to do, or you need a well documented process. Local SEO (search engine optimization) is a process - a collection of predefined activities that when executed, produce a predictable outcome.
