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With individual locations backed by a top-level brand, franchises are historically strong enterprises for a few reasons. Costs and results are typically shared by both owners and operators, making established franchises comparatively safer investments for entrepreneurs. On top of that, newly opened franchises benefit from a proven, pre-existing business plan. Furthermore, individual businesses and storefronts may bask in the glow of cohesive, top-level branding and marketing. Even so, a growing business may present a unique set of challenges for franchisees.

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SEO at Scale

More locations lead to more landing pages with more content to manage, resulting in more chances of running into technical SEO missteps. Optimize landing pages across the business.

Local SEO

Keeping franchisees happy is key. Targeted, local SEO with localized keyword research can boost individual franchise locations within their regional markets, in some cases driving more in-person visits.

Higher ROI

Make an impression on potential franchise investors by being easy to find online and lowering the cost of customer acquisition through improved organic search.

Our SEO Services for Franchise Businesses

Our SEO services are personalized to address the needs of your franchise business. We tailor our efforts using the following strategies.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is a primary step in your website’s search engine optimization. We deploy reliable keyword research tools to find the most relevant keywords for your franchise business. Our strategic keyword selection approach, considering volume, competition, and locality, can help your website reach a bigger audience and improve organic traffic.

Website Audits

Website audits allow us to assess your website, find areas for improvement, and determine its potential growth areas. Our specialists perform an in-depth audit to analyze your website’s performance and develop a personalized, strategic plan to optimize it. A complete audit also helps us find technical errors and address issues promptly, making it easier for Google to crawl and rank your website.

Competitive SEO Audits

Competitive SEO audits are different from website audits. In competitive SEO audits, we analyze your competition, the keywords they are using and ranking for, their placement on SERPs, and the SEO techniques they use. This complete competitive analysis gives us insights into how we can implement competitive strategies to fill any gaps in the market.

On-Page SEO Optimization

On-page optimization is a proven way to rank on a search engine result page. Our on-page SEO optimization strategies enhance your website and optimize it for relevant keywords, improving its search rankings. Our priorities for optimizing on-page SEO elements include metadata, content pages, URLs, banners, internal linking, and image optimization.

Content Marketing

On-page optimization and content marketing go hand in hand. The quality and consistency of the content on your website play a crucial role in its ranking. In our content marketing services, we improve the existing content on your website as well as create high-quality, original content to increase your relevance and authority with search engines. Our personalized marketing strategy helps your business reach potential clients and increases your conversion rate.

Technical Website Optimization

While technical website optimization is a backend service, it is extremely important for ranking. Google prefers websites that do not have technical errors and are easily crawlable. Technical optimization enhances user experiences and makes it easier for crawlers to index your website. We utilize our detailed technical knowledge to optimize URLs, sitemaps, internal linking, website architecture, and more, enhancing your website’s visibility and user experience.

Schema and Structured Data

Structured data helps search engines understand the context and purpose of your web pages. We implement schema markup and structured data to enhance your website’s indexability and help it rank higher across search engines. This is a very effective way to increase your visibility and increase organic traffic since it allows search engines to display snippets of relevant information in search results.

Google Business Profile (GBP) Optimization

Google Business Profiles plays a big role in SEO for franchise businesses. Optimizing your Google Business Profile helps boost your local visibility and attract nearby clients. We do this by updating your profile with accurate business details, such as your business name, number, and address, and writing optimized service descriptions.

Off-Page SEO and Link Building

Off-page SEO and link-building are strategic ways to increase your website’s credibility in the eyes of a search engine. Part of our off-page SEO involves building high-quality backlinks from reputable sites. This helps us establish your brand’s credibility and authority in your industry. High credibility results in higher rankings, which increase your website’s visibility and organic traffic.

SEO Optimized Website Design

An SEO-friendly website design ensures that each page is optimized for both users and search engines. Our SEO team implements an effective SEO web design for your site, ensuring seamless architecture, easy navigation, mobile-friendliness, and internal links. An SEO-friendly website design attracts more traffic and provides a seamless user experience.

Keyword research is a primary step in your website’s search engine optimization. We deploy reliable keyword research tools to find the most relevant keywords for your franchise business. Our strategic keyword selection approach, considering volume, competition, and locality, can help your website reach a bigger audience and improve organic traffic.

Website audits allow us to assess your website, find areas for improvement, and determine its potential growth areas. Our specialists perform an in-depth audit to analyze your website’s performance and develop a personalized, strategic plan to optimize it. A complete audit also helps us find technical errors and address issues promptly, making it easier for Google to crawl and rank your website.

Competitive SEO audits are different from website audits. In competitive SEO audits, we analyze your competition, the keywords they are using and ranking for, their placement on SERPs, and the SEO techniques they use. This complete competitive analysis gives us insights into how we can implement competitive strategies to fill any gaps in the market.

On-page optimization is a proven way to rank on a search engine result page. Our on-page SEO optimization strategies enhance your website and optimize it for relevant keywords, improving its search rankings. Our priorities for optimizing on-page SEO elements include metadata, content pages, URLs, banners, internal linking, and image optimization.

On-page optimization and content marketing go hand in hand. The quality and consistency of the content on your website play a crucial role in its ranking. In our content marketing services, we improve the existing content on your website as well as create high-quality, original content to increase your relevance and authority with search engines. Our personalized marketing strategy helps your business reach potential clients and increases your conversion rate.

While technical website optimization is a backend service, it is extremely important for ranking. Google prefers websites that do not have technical errors and are easily crawlable. Technical optimization enhances user experiences and makes it easier for crawlers to index your website. We utilize our detailed technical knowledge to optimize URLs, sitemaps, internal linking, website architecture, and more, enhancing your website’s visibility and user experience.

Structured data helps search engines understand the context and purpose of your web pages. We implement schema markup and structured data to enhance your website’s indexability and help it rank higher across search engines. This is a very effective way to increase your visibility and increase organic traffic since it allows search engines to display snippets of relevant information in search results.

Google Business Profiles plays a big role in SEO for franchise businesses. Optimizing your Google Business Profile helps boost your local visibility and attract nearby clients. We do this by updating your profile with accurate business details, such as your business name, number, and address, and writing optimized service descriptions.

Off-page SEO and link-building are strategic ways to increase your website’s credibility in the eyes of a search engine. Part of our off-page SEO involves building high-quality backlinks from reputable sites. This helps us establish your brand’s credibility and authority in your industry. High credibility results in higher rankings, which increase your website’s visibility and organic traffic.

An SEO-friendly website design ensures that each page is optimized for both users and search engines. Our SEO team implements an effective SEO web design for your site, ensuring seamless architecture, easy navigation, mobile-friendliness, and internal links. An SEO-friendly website design attracts more traffic and provides a seamless user experience.

SEO for Franchise Investors and Businesses

Start building cohesive SEO attack plans that benefit the entire business

What works for one location may not work for another. And yet, consistency gives brand power. A familiar business rides the strength of being familiar everywhere. No customer wants to be confused by processes or products. And no potential franchisee wants to invest in a business with unsupported markets. So how do we marry consistency with a specific, tailored approach at the local level? At Outpace, it starts with an SEO (search engine optimization) plan of attack. A unified online front is a rising tide that lifts all ships, in this case, the individual locations.

And even though consistency is key, the specific keywords of each market may vary. In fact, one of the most damaging web development practices that uniquely affects franchise businesses is called Duplicate Content. In many cases, franchisee landing pages are merely copied and pasted down the line. But in reality, if two pages contain identical content, they will both suffer. Search engines like Google have been shown to interpret content like this as repetitive and unnecessary, or worse, as plagiarism, and they will penalize websites accordingly. So while reusing brand language and imagery creates cohesion, fresh, unique content and individually tailored keywords are critical for upholding a powerful presence in organic searches.

Franchise SEO FAQs

Answering Franchise Business Model SEO Questions

How can SEO benefit potential customers of franchisees?

SEO is not a silver-bullet, but SEO is one of the most powerful tools for connecting with new customers. An effective SEO plan backed by careful execution is the surest way for most businesses to improve in organic search. Organic search overwhelmingly drives conversions compared to traditional advertising, as customers are more likely to trust your business if they discover it on their own through asking the right questions of search engines. And a business that understands its customers is more attractive for potential investors.

Why should I invest in SEO over traditional advertising?

Investing in SEO over traditional advertising can benefit your franchise business in the following ways:

  • Offers long-term results with sustainable growth
  • Offers a cost-efficient, scalable approach
  • Targets consumers who are actively searching for your services or products
  • Enhances your credibility and authority
  • Increases your organic search rankings
  • Offers you a long-term, competitive advantage
  • Offers measurable ROI
  • Increases both the local and global reach of your business

SEO campaigns are specific to franchises and other industries, such as national SEO, small business SEO, and more. Each customized campaign provides high-value leads over traditional advertising solutions.

How can we be sure we are avoiding bad SEO practices?

Franchise businesses are loaded with moving parts. Bad marketing practices can absolutely tank peace amongst stakeholders. A good SEO plan for franchise businesses should pull from top-level, branded messaging to maintain cohesion, and keeping owners happy. But a good plan should also leverage individual landing pages to benefit franchisees. And in general, SEO experts should avoid sinkholes like risky backlinks and keyword-stuffing, as these are shortcuts to quick, superficial results that will ultimately be heavily penalized by search algorithms.

What are some positive SEO practices that can help my franchise business?

Good SEO is holistic. Different aspects should work together to strengthen your search presence. Here are some things we always consider at Outpace:

  • On-Page SEO: We speak the languages of the web. Well-organized coding practices are rewarded by search engines. We always consider page layouts according to best practices, including using the right header tags and providing behind-the-scenes meta descriptions that search algorithms will interpret.
  • Off-page SEO: Reviews, backlinks, citations, and more – we always consider the way your website will be represented in other directories. A quality referral boosts SEO, but sketchy website recommendations can actually harm your online reputation.
  • Speed Optimization: This is useless if the page never loads. We prioritize cleanly developed sites with appropriate image and file sizes because a slow user experience is often a negative one.
  • Keywords: Rather than shotgun potential search terms, we look for the most relevant, winnable keywords. Keyword research is an important step in understanding the way customers think about your business.
  • Living Content: If your site is collecting cobwebs, Google will penalize it. By regularly publishing useful content, we stay current and trustworthy in the view of both potential customers and search engine bots making recommendations.

SEO is not a silver-bullet, but SEO is one of the most powerful tools for connecting with new customers. An effective SEO plan backed by careful execution is the surest way for most businesses to improve in organic search. Organic search overwhelmingly drives conversions compared to traditional advertising, as customers are more likely to trust your business if they discover it on their own through asking the right questions of search engines. And a business that understands its customers is more attractive for potential investors.

Investing in SEO over traditional advertising can benefit your franchise business in the following ways:

  • Offers long-term results with sustainable growth
  • Offers a cost-efficient, scalable approach
  • Targets consumers who are actively searching for your services or products
  • Enhances your credibility and authority
  • Increases your organic search rankings
  • Offers you a long-term, competitive advantage
  • Offers measurable ROI
  • Increases both the local and global reach of your business

SEO campaigns are specific to franchises and other industries, such as national SEO, small business SEO, and more. Each customized campaign provides high-value leads over traditional advertising solutions.

Franchise businesses are loaded with moving parts. Bad marketing practices can absolutely tank peace amongst stakeholders. A good SEO plan for franchise businesses should pull from top-level, branded messaging to maintain cohesion, and keeping owners happy. But a good plan should also leverage individual landing pages to benefit franchisees. And in general, SEO experts should avoid sinkholes like risky backlinks and keyword-stuffing, as these are shortcuts to quick, superficial results that will ultimately be heavily penalized by search algorithms.

Good SEO is holistic. Different aspects should work together to strengthen your search presence. Here are some things we always consider at Outpace:

  • On-Page SEO: We speak the languages of the web. Well-organized coding practices are rewarded by search engines. We always consider page layouts according to best practices, including using the right header tags and providing behind-the-scenes meta descriptions that search algorithms will interpret.
  • Off-page SEO: Reviews, backlinks, citations, and more – we always consider the way your website will be represented in other directories. A quality referral boosts SEO, but sketchy website recommendations can actually harm your online reputation.
  • Speed Optimization: This is useless if the page never loads. We prioritize cleanly developed sites with appropriate image and file sizes because a slow user experience is often a negative one.
  • Keywords: Rather than shotgun potential search terms, we look for the most relevant, winnable keywords. Keyword research is an important step in understanding the way customers think about your business.
  • Living Content: If your site is collecting cobwebs, Google will penalize it. By regularly publishing useful content, we stay current and trustworthy in the view of both potential customers and search engine bots making recommendations.

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