Comments on: SEO Magic of Going Local

By: affordable seo services chicago

affordable seo services chicago — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:21:31 +0000

This is great information. I do a little seo consulting for local businesses and I think this would work great and save me a bunch of time which should allow me to go after more business. Good work!

By: derrick

derrick — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:44:01 +0000

This didn’t put alot of traffic on my site but that’s not what I was looking for. I was looking for targeted traffic I got over 600 visitors out of the 50 number 1 local keywords I put up this month and it only took 2 weeks to get them to the top, some happened in days. That translated into thousands of dollars for my business from just 1 customer and this is just the first month. For me local ranking is king and you can keep your global ranking and special thanks to the guys at FTS for understanding that it’s not always about the numbers some times it’s a narrow audience you need to achieve your goals.

By: derrick

derrick — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:33:36 +0000

inside of two weeks i’ve got around 50 #1 spots from going local in my profession

By: Nose Hair Clipper

Nose Hair Clipper — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:50:38 +0000

It always amazes me that people running sites/businesses so often completely ignore local searches. Talk about leaving money on the table! Excellent post and a timely reminder, especially now when the economy is down and everyone is looking for that extra edge.

By: CD Rates

CD Rates — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:50:02 +0000

Excellent information. It is probably hard to use the free tools to estimate traffic, but you can pretty much figure that service type, local targeted traffic will produce.

Think dentists, car repair, bikes, bakeries, restuarants, the sky is the limit.

Great post.

By: gary lewis

gary lewis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:14:23 +0000

I think I will change my tactics and start doing geo targeted keywords! Cheers guys

By: Haron

Haron — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:23:01 +0000

That’s a very good finding. This is what we call analysing your competition or Competition Intelligence.

By: Vegar

Vegar — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:16:09 +0000

A good opportunity here is to start a local directory of different proffesions. If your town has more than 20.000 you can probably with ease sell an advertising spot for 500 dollars a year for the term “car repair town”. You can go broad in this and include tons of relevant keywords. Car rental, truck rental, delivery service, hair dresser, bridal service, funural agency… you can probably build 500 pages on your site and get most of them to rank.

Let each advertiser get a logo, some information text, a phone number and an address + a link to their website and email.

Sell the spots on each page. This is a lot of work, but when people start using your site, and the local business owners start to see your site rank, the advertisers will come to you.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:11:47 +0000

Local keywords are great, I run my business around them, we can almost guarantee to get your local business online and on page 1 within days. As you can see geo targeting your keywords makes for much less competition within the market.

Good luck with it.

ps if you need help with local SEO visit
http://www.networkingwithprofit.com/localseo/index.html

By: Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Once again, those great ideas keep flowing,

Thanks
Ralph