Archive for the 'Local Search' Category

I’m reprinting this article from Jim because I think there are lots of good work at home business related applications for us to consider. Personally though, I hate RSS readers. I use FeedBlitz.com to poll my favorite RSS feeds and have the posts sent to me by email. I find that much better than using [...]

From Internet Marketing Prescriptions
Local SEO Tips - Don’t Ignore the Gems in Your own Backyard
By Alice Seba
If you sell a service or product online you may not want to ignore the potential customers right in your own backyard. There are a number of potential local businesses who may be interested in what you have to [...]

If you use AdWords, Johnathan Leger has a new tool for you.
This tool will take any keywords that you supply and inject
the city and/or state combinations for every city in the USA
into the keywords for you.
This helps you take advantage of local searches and - hopefully - will reduce your overall advertising costs.
For example, say [...]

I’m always on the lookout for free ad spots for local businesses, including yours.
ShowMeLocal.com is the most recent one I came across. Here’s their FAQ
Basically it’s free to sign up and according to their advertising, it’s free to place ads.
I’m not exactly clear about back end costs for blogging, etc.
What’s a bit different about ShowMeLocal.com [...]

You know those sites like CityData.com? They are called “National Local Sites”. They can spew out alot of data about your burg, but it’s all rather plastic and obviously designed with the prayer that someone will click their Adsense ad.
According to Technology Evangelist’s review of the data, it appears the “plastic” sites are big but [...]

Yokel lets you target local buyers… even through mobile phone searches. There’s a $49 annual account fee, but after that you only pay when customers view your listings.
The price per click is only 25 cents (subject to change I guess) and you can set a maximum monthly budget. So this could be affordable for even [...]

The Google Local Business center could be helping your home business. Are you taking advantage of it?
In addition to being able to create your Google Local Business listing here that gives you a free Google directory listing…
Now you can add your Local Coupons to your Google map results.
If you want to tell people what you [...]