Archive for the 'Local Search' Category

To get business during a recession, your fast food joint turns to the dollar menu. To assuage the fears of local business owners who don’t want to wake up one morning and see a $10,000 Adsense bill from keyword bidding, Google offers flat fee pricing for local businesses. Anyone who’s set up an AdWords account [...]

Helping Small Businesses marketing online can be a lucrative. Here’s one product that lets you do that. But as with any gravy train, there is always competition. Google is stepping up efforts to reach your local small business customers and make them theirs. This doesn’t mean you still can’t sell websites in a lucrative manner, [...]

GetListed.org is a one stop shop for getting your local business the positioning it deserves on the web! It’s a way to take control of your business listing. It’s a very helpful site for local businesses – just launched in January, 2009 you will definitely want to check it out! Why? Latest stats show that [...]

Do you have your Free Business Directory listing yet? If your business 1. Serves a LOCAL BUSINESS AREA 2. Has a website 3. Wants another link for some extra exposure Get that Free Business Directory Listing Only “Family Friendly” businesses please. I’ll be the sole judge of what’s appropriate. Affliliate links will not be approved.

This Nashville Business Guide is a portal of sorts for Nashville business but also serves as an excellent example of just how flexible WordPress can be as a Content Management System when properly used. You can visit the Nashville Business Guide at InNashville.net if you want to understand the range of possibilities open to you [...]

Every little bit of “Link Love” your local businesse website gets can’t hurt. After all, most local business websites have NO backlinks. So every link you add increases your business’ chances of a higher ranking on the search engines. You can visit here to get your  Free Online Business Listing There’s just ONE rule – [...]

Praized Media is a useful plugin for WordPress bloggers whose topic relates somehow to local search, local business, or other such topics that are enriched by giving readers the ability to read and write their own reviews. The plugin lets your blog tap into 1) A database of businesses in the US and Canada 2) [...]

The rules are changing for “brick and mortar” businesses… those home based businesses and small storefront businesses that market their services locally (at least in part). Now even your local hardware store needs to think about how it ranks in Google’s (and others’) local search rankings for it’s product and services. At this stage of [...]

Jim Cockrum, the author of the best selling “The Secret Sales Machine hiding on Ebay” has stumbled upon another wide open market… Brick and Mortar businesses. Here’s how he puts it as he opens a new resource. It all came about when I started noticing a trend locally. Businesses in my hometown were seeking me [...]

I do my share of helping businesses take an amorphous website and try to make it something 1) Decent looking and 2) Search engine friendly That’s important because as the old “Phone Directories” die because people “Google” what they’re looking for, then basically every local business will rise or fall in part based on whether [...]