There are 31.7 million small businesses in the US. A local business can be classified as a small business. Most of these local (or small) businesses serve their local communities, neighborhoods, counties or states.  In New York alone, 99.8% of all businesses are small businesses . A small, local business is important to the community. And many of these small businesses compete with each other to get the attention of their customers. According to Techjury.com, there are around 200 million active websites.  In this sea of competition, what helps your business website get noticed and attract relevant traffic in the local markets? Local SEO is one strategy most local websites can benefit from. What is Local SEO? Local SEO is implemented to increase the searchability and visibility of a website. This means that when local customers search for a business like yours in your local area, the chances of your website showing on top of the search engine result pages increases with local ...