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(Entry was posted by E.Dieter Marti on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/21/2014).

A local SEO citations question.

Yet another local SEO citations question: The latest moz.com study ranks number and quality of citations at #7, half the weight of rank #1 City, State in Landing Page Title

Now, are there any studies or even just an educated guess how the traffic you get from better search rankings compares to the traffic you get from just being listed on one of those sites. And I mean both, traffic to the site and just folks who call the business or walk into the store.

There`s certainly a non trivial number of website visitors and customers coming in through yelp and other sites without ever having used Google or Bing.?
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  • E.Dieter Martin: Yet another local SEO citations question: The latest moz.com study ranks number and quality of citations at #7, half the weight of rank #1 ;City, State in Landing Page Title

    Now, are there any studies or even just an educated guess how the traffic you get from better search rankings compares to the traffic you get from just being listed on one of those sites. And I mean both, traffic to the site and just folks who call the business or walk into the store.

    There's certainly a non trivial number of website visitors and customers coming in through yelp and other sites without ever having used Google or Bing.
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:14:37 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/a_local_seo_citations_question +E.Dieter Martin

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  • E.Dieter Martin: Thanks +Tim Capper, +Jim Munro ;. Tony probably understood my question best: What's the value you are getting from a citation: search engine ranking plus traffic coming from that site. Tim and Jim both say that additional traffic is very low, where Tony values it somewhat higher, depending on the actual citation site.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/21/2014).