Immediate ways I can use to improve my website ranking locally

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Perry Bernard: If your posts gain you follow links from site that are related and relevant then they can help your site in Singapore. But is the location relevant for users? If not, you should work on earning links locally. Your first step for local SEO should be to set up, complete and optimise your Google My Business profile.
  
  
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  Michael Martinez: Guest posting for links violates Google`s search guidelines. So there is some risk involved.
  
  That said, if you use the guest posts to build brand visibility for your site - without worrying about whether the links help with rankings - then U.S.-based blogs won`t be as helpful as Singapore-based (and perhaps Brunei-, Indonesia-, and Malaysia-based) blogs.
  
  Improving brand visibility contributes to growth in brand-related queries, which are less competitive than general keyword queries.
  
  
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  Jim Munro: About ten years ago a bloke by the name of Matt Cutts said put a fork in it, guest posting is done or something like that I It turned out that he was the one who was finished but he`ll be remembered for the quote. Not that many people pay attention.
  
  
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  Perry Bernard: Jim Munro true. But don’t always believe what young Matt said.