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Franchise SEO Services

Having trouble ranking multiple business locations on Google? Search engine optimization for franchises will make it happen.

Is your franchise consistently outranked in the search engines by local, less-authoritative businesses? It’s a common problem for franchisees and franchisors, and one we know how to solve: with advanced, localized franchise SEO.

If you’re tired of being outranked in Google and Bing by other businesses, we can help. At Blue Corona, we take a proven, analytics-driven approach to SEO for franchise clients. Starting with a business intake, we build your SEO campaign with a strong local foundation, from citation listings to website structure, high-quality content, and online maps listings.

We’re a strategic franchise marketing partner that specializes in web design, pay per click, and SEO—and we’ve got multi-location SEO strategy down to a science.  Learn more about how we handle SEO for franchises below or contact us now to get started!

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Our Franchise SEO Process for Multiple Business Locations

SEO companies like Blue Corona handle the day-to-day of making your franchise locations more visible in the search results and converting online searchers into new customers. We do this by following the process below.

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1PERFORMING A COMPETITIVE DIGITAL ANALYSIS

  • Use our proprietary data tracking software to complete a competitive digital marketing analysis and find out how you stack up against your top three competitors
  • Identify the top sales-driving SEO keywords and search terms in your market area
  • Establish your baseline for website code and structure, content, local visibility, and off-site citations, then compare it to your competitors to create an actionable, sales-driving plan complete with goals

2OPTIMIZING WEBSITE CONTENT AND CODE

  • Install advanced Google Analytics and call tracking
  • Make your franchise’s website design fast, secure (optional but recommended), and mobile friendly
  • Edit your website’s code, content, and structure to be in-line with best SEO practices
  • Perform conversion rate optimization on all website elements (like contact forms, buttons, navigational links) to ensure an optimal experience for your customers

3CREATING NEW WEBSITE CONTENT AND CREATIVES

  • Publish targeted, well-written website content that improves your local search rankings and provides a seamless user experience
  • Create SEO-optimized creative content assets like infographics & videos
  • Optimize and create content for voice search and digital assistants

4LOCAL CITATION OPTIMIZATION (LOCAL SEO)

  • Locate and audit existing citations across online directories like Yelp, Facebook, and more, including industry-specific directories
  • Optimize your Google My Business page for your address or service area, phone number, maps listing, and business hours
  • Optimize your company’s Facebook page for franchise local SEO best practices
  • Discover, manage, and monitor local citation and backlink opportunities to build authority

5MEASUREMENT AND ANALYTICS REPORTING

  • Provide transparent revenue attribution and easy-to-understand monthly reports on the status and results of all your SEO campaigns, as well as what’s coming next
  • Provide reports on tracked incoming phone calls and analyze separately tracked phone lines for each marketing channel (optional add-on, but recommended)
  • Monitor analytics on a daily basis to watch for anomalies, hacks, penalties, or other sales-damaging events

6TRACKING AND TWEAKING YOUR SEO CAMPAIGN

  • Monitor your keyword rankings, organic traffic, calls, and leads
  • Monitor the keywords rankings of your competitors
  • Monitor your top three competitors
  • Monitor keyword and search trends in your industry
  • Continually optimize and pivot your campaign for better performance over time

Beat Your Competitors with Hyper-Targeted SEO for Franchises

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Your franchise probably gets 20 emails a day from SEO companies promising to send you straight to the top of the search results. Like most things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it typically is! With thousands of self-proclaimed “franchise SEO experts,” it can be difficult to distinguish fact from fiction–especially since SEO for franchises is so localized. At Blue Corona, we provide total transparency and SEO services backed by tangible data you can see.

Strategic SEO Strategies for Multi-Location Businesses

SEO for franchises is more difficult than for other industries because of fractured locations and inconsistent web data across different entities. Getting things to be consistent across the board is no easy task, which is why franchise SEO is best left to marketing companies who have done it before and have a formula for consistent results. But you shouldn’t hire the first SEO company that walks through your door—you want to find someone with experience providing both SEO for franchisors and SEO for franchisees (like Blue Corona). They require different techniques because they deal with different problems.

We’ve cracked the code on what it takes to overcome common SEO problems franchises face, so your experience will be smooth sailing.

Three things are required to rank well organically for all of your franchise locations:

  1. You need a website that is coded and structured in a way that’s easy for the search engines to find, read, and index
  2. You need (volumes) of unique, relevant, and remarkable content. Your content must provide value to your visitors and answer the questions implied by their search query
  3. Your overall web presence must establish your company as an authority—a leader in your industry. While franchise companies typically have no problem getting links from media websites, vendors, suppliers, partners, etc., they frequently struggle with website structure and content

Website Site Code & Structure

Many franchise websites or collections of websites are massive in size. Often, there’s a lot to handle within one CMS that manages all the locations either on one domain or individual websites. You also may be dealing with multiple franchise owners managing their own website and have to ensure that everyone adheres to a certain standard (which can feel like herding cattle).

Creating a unified SEO strategy for multiple locations can be incredibly laborious. At the same time, this is exactly what is required to create a foundation for (arguably) the most important aspect of SEO—relevant and valuable website content to compete in each location’s search market and competition.

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Your franchise needs volumes of quality Website Content

Think your franchises have plenty of content? Most marketing managers are quick to respond “YES!” If you think you have a great deal of content, but you’re being outranked by other or smaller companies, an alarm should go off in your head. Often, the problem is not really a lack of content, it’s that the content is structured in a way that creates a roadblock for the search engines.

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If your individual franchise locations have their own websites and domains, do they individually have enough content to rank well organically? Do they have the support needed to build out the website content that is well optimized for search engines? Likely the answer is “no.” That’s where our team comes in. In one case, we worked with an insulation franchise company to build out the optimized web content for their dozens of locations nationwide—giving each branch the chance to dominate in the organic search field for their own markets.

Local SEO for franchises

As a franchise, you have multiple locations. Are you confident in the local SEO and consistency of each location’s local directory listings and citations? Are you even confident if each location has a  verified and optimized Google My Business listing? That’s where we can help. We’ve worked with franchise organizations with locations across the entire country who need help managing and maintaining the local SEO profiles of their different locations.

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Strategic Franchise SEO Services

Despite case study after case study detailing the incredible ROI possible from SEO, many businesses have not gone “all in.” Smaller companies, by comparison, often lacking the (significant) marketing budgets required to test alternative forms of advertising, are often seen investing as much as they possibly can in SEO. As a franchise organization, you need a partner that will help you set a consistent and data-driven strategy for SEO for all of your locations and branches.

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Top Company SEO FAQs

What is SEO?

SEO is the process of editing and creating website content and code that ranks well on search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. First, your website must be coded so search engines can find and crawl it. Your website also needs to be fast, secure, and mobile friendly. Second, you need web page after web page of unique, remarkable, and optimized content. Third, you must gain citations, links, and references from other relevant and authoritative websites.

What’s included in SEO services?

In all SEO packages, we include:

    1. A digital competitive analysis
    2. Website content and code optimization
    3. New website content and creatives
    4. Local citation optimization (local SEO)
    5. Measurement and analytics reporting
    6. Continual tracking and tweaking of your campaign

Should I hire an SEO company?

An SEO company handles the day-to-day tasks of monitoring your online presence so you can focus on other aspects of your business. If you don’t have the time or resources to comb through pages upon pages of analytical data, rankings, and traffic patterns and then have the means to optimize accordingly, you need an SEO company.

How much do SEO services cost?

Blue Corona’s SEO process starts with a website audit – an ongoing SEO campaign may or may not follow (ongoing SEO occurs approximately 85% of the time). Website audits are customized for individual businesses, so the prices vary, but the typical range is $2,500 – $3,500 (audits for larger “enterprise” websites can be considerably more). Ongoing SEO ranges from consulting to “do it for me” SEO services where Blue Corona’s team acts like your own in-house SEO department (for a fraction of the cost of having your own SEO team). Ongoing SEO ranges from $2,000 per month on the low end to $10,000 (or more) per month on the high end. What should really matter is your return on marketing investment (ROMI). Sure, $5,000 per month may sound like a big investment for a local business, but if your ROMI turns into $50,000 per month, it’s worth the investment. A word of caution: you get what you pay for. If you sign up with a cheap SEO company that offers low monthly payments and includes a “free” website, you may be leasing a space on their proprietary platform, meaning you lose your website and all your work once you leave. Avoid outsourced or second-language SEO work.

How long does SEO take?

If you’ve got a good SEO partner, you can generally see results between 3-6 months, but certain industries with highly competitive keywords can take up to a year to see traction. Don’t give up, though—once you get going, your results will snowball.

How does Blue Corona track SEO success?

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. You can’t win the game if you don’t know the score. Despite a million quotes which suggest that you can’t maximize your business success unless you track your results, most business owners and marketers are still not accurately tracking their advertising, marketing, website, or SEO. Most online marketing companies treat tracking and reporting as an afterthought—the last step. At Blue Corona, it’s the first step in every SEO engagement.

Is Blue Corona a certified Google Partner?

Yes.

CASE STUDY
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What Makes Blue Corona Different

Unlike other SEO companies, we operate from the perspective of a business owner. We strive to provide superior service by offering the following to all our franchise SEO clients:

  • A dedicated Account Manager, someone that understands business and SEO, to be your guide
  • Detailed monthly reports (you can actually understand) that connect SEO performance to your bottom line
  • A support team that includes an analyst, web designer/developer, and a dedicated professional copywriter
  • Access to our proprietary analytics software(better data drives better results)

Our Happy Clients

I would 100% recommend Blue Corona to any new, aspiring HVAC, plumbing, electrical service, home services type business that is looking to expand the footprint of Internet marketing truly because the sense of, they're not like your every other internet marketing company. They're not going to sell you a bill of goods and over-promise and under-deliver. They're going to under-promise and over-deliver.

Ross Albert, Owner
Arctic Air Conditioning

There's been plenty of times where we would sit back and look at things and go, "Hey, you know what? That's probably the best decision we made in a long time." I would definitely recommend [Blue Corona] to other service companies because I want to see how other people like me and my family here at work succeed.

Bill McManigal, Sales & Marketing Manager
Blind & Sons

"Blue Corona has been our marketing agency for over a year now. They have provided great services and strategies for accelerating our business growth. Most importantly, they are willing and able to adapt our marketing strategy to help us succeed in our industry. Our account manager has been awesome! She is and has been such an asset to Reliable Power Systems."

De’Tavius Ross,
Reliable Power Systems

"Since working with Blue Corona our lead quality and profitability have skyrocketed! They give you advice on what is best for you rather what would line their own pockets. I have also been impressed by the quality of services (ad copy, amazing web design) and constant communication and tracking Blue Corona offers. Our account manager is truly a pleasure to work with. She is great at setting expectations and delivering results. I have worked with many marketing agencies and have...

Tracy Valgento,
Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

"We have been partnering with Blue Corona for a couple of years now, and we are very pleased with the results. From the initial phase of learning our company's challenges and needs to the development of an effective online marketing strategy, working with the entire BC team has been a pleasure. The results have been tangible, and we're seeing an increase in leads and website visits across the board. One important asset BC brings to the table is their team's...

Michael DiFabion,
DiFabion Remodeling

"I’m very happy with the progress of Blue Corona’s SEO and pay-per-click campaigns for my garage door business. Blue Corona has helped improve our online visibility and generate more leads."

Bill McCormick,
Overhead Door of Indianapolis

"I've been with Blue Corona for over a year now. Hands down one of the best decisions I made for my business. The improvements they've made to my website, SEO, and general lead flow are so much better than previous companies I've worked with. One of the main reasons I chose them is they made decisions based on data and facts. Everything we do is measurable and they hold themselves accountable to the goals we collectively established. While all of...

Brian Zimmerman,
Zen Windows – Charlotte

"The switch to Blue Corona for our digital marketing needs was the best switch our team ever could have made. Our account manager is the best. She and her team are constantly staying a step ahead of industry trends and keeping us informed of best practices for our brand. We have seen tremendous results in a short time since beginning our partnership with Blue Corona, and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with their phenomenal team."

Raven Love,
Robin Aire

"I work for an Ohio HVAC, plumbing, electric, and indoor air quality company. Blue Corona has been nothing but helpful. We've used their services for several years and never had any issues. They've helped us improve PPC, SEO, social media, Local Services ads, and anything in between. I would 100% recommend using their services."

Jenell Marsek,
Blind & Sons

"Blue Corona has proven to be an integral marketing partner for our team. They handled our website revamp, as well as have continued to work with us to optimize our SEO, create campaigns, and evaluate our lead volume. Not only have we appreciated their professionalism, but we are so thankful for their assistance in facilitating our online growth."

Jennifer Jacob,
Jacob Heating & Air Conditioning
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