I can see where SEO Power Suite can be an extremely effective tool for improving "Organic" Ranking. Lot's of people all over the web bragging about you Link-Assistant folk's software that's constantly improving and some actually seem to bouncing off of virtual wall regarding your support.

But I'm doing primarily Local SEO. Yes of course I know much of the same things have to be right for local listings like they do for organic listings ie: Keywords, Titles, Tags, back links etc, but with Local there is so much of positioning within local listing boxes such as Google 7 box etc that is dependent on a number of other factors like links from citation sites (Merchant Circle, Insider Pages, Super Yellow pages and so on), as well as positive reviews, and inbound links from businesses in the same local area.

Does SEO Power Suite incorporate any data on competition or comparisons a local SEO guy could do a better job for his clients with?

Hmmmmmm - now that I re-read what I just ask, I hope I'm making myself clear.

Might of been easier just to ask if this software suite can help be do a better job with local business clients in local listings and if so how?

Yeeeesh I hate for my first post here to be this messed up but hopefully someone will have an answer for me.

Mike

Hello,

SEO Power Suite might be good tool for getting back links, but I don think it will be the only thing that helps in boosting your page rank well in Google. You have to consider other areas as well while optimizing. Whether you getting good PR back links from your locality? have you added your web site to niche directories? Try to acquire more links from your local area which will surely help you to boost up your PR.

Optimizing for local search is pretty much the same as SEO in general as you have noted. What you need to concentrate on is keeping your keywords and the anchor texts of your backlinks local, that is add geographical locations to them. Also specify your address on you page, - there are some more tips here for instance.