How can you compete for local seo if you don't have an address?

[denvercardonations]

A company in NewYork called me and said they coukd get me into about 100 local buisness listings online like yellopages, yelp, etc....they said not to worry their local clients have every top listing because of the address. I don' have an address, because there is no "brick and mortar" location for me, i.e. no business mailing address, with that in mind, how coukd I ever compete with all this people with addresses and zip codes around me? Is there another SEO strategy I could use to help be seen? If the zip code the searcher is in is 80205 a Google local search won't think I exist....

 

[Developer]

You DO have an address. If you run the business as a home business
then your home address is also your business address. If you prefer
not to publicize your home address, you could register for a PO box
at your local post office or a local UPS or MailBoxes store. They all
usually even give you a street address to use which you could then
use as your business street address.

 

[MrT]

MrT

Google is getting very smart when it comes to local UPS boxes/PO boxes. Also, even virtual offices are getting deleted/banned. There may be a few that still work but it's only a matter of time until it dies out.

Developer is right about your home address. You should be using that and selecting the option to not display your address. That's the GMB guidelines anyway, if it's not a B&M, hide the address.

 

[denvercardonations]

denvercardonations

I was taking a bus from downtown Denver to Boulder and looking for meetings in Google while riding, noticing that the freaking results weren't always the same. I suppose it is because Google was localizing my results as I was riding? How do you do broad SEO then if you are in Colorado and can service all of Colorado, but Google keeps you out of organic search because people are using search by location? Or is there some sort of markup, or something to help? MRT how do I get one of these virual offices you speak of?

 

[Developer]

Developer

Just curious, but why would you want a VO. His statement was that even those are being ousted by GMB.

 

[denvercardonations]

denvercardonations

I am just curious about how it is done, I have never met anyone with one.