Giving your business a good web presence can be absolutely priceless. With online search engines being primary source for people to find out answers they have never been more imperative to make sure your enterprise is being delivered effectively to an online audience. To get your website seen you need to make use of online listing, targeted adverts and search engine optimisation.
Utilizing free local listings ought to be the first step for any company owner. Google refers more traffic than any other search engine with 82% of people using it to acquire information. The Google Local Business Centre allows you to make a free business listing to market your products. The service can be used to discover information such as the geo location people are visiting from and the keywords attracting visitors to the site. Its not the only online local listing service though, Yahoo! Local also provides similar services. Not taking advantage of any free listing services would be a heavy mistake when attempting to give your company some online exposure.
Another free way to get your site traffic is by using Search Engine Optimisation or SEO. Intelligent use of keywords and using Meta tags will push your site further up the search engine rankings. White Hat SEO is the preferable method, spamming your site with keywords (Black Hat SEO) can initially increase traffic but will eventually lead to a ban. URL normalization (web pages accessible via multiple addresses) and cross linking (linking pages within the site) are also part of SEO and are a free way to make your site more accessible on the internet.
For anyone who is seeking to put money into local website marketing then targeted adverts are a necessity. You can buy targeted advertisements for search engines but it also might be worth looking into the world of Facebook for marketing. Facebook can target ads to the exact location of your business because it’s 400 million users all provide these details. Other places you might consider advertising could include local newspaper sites or web pages for other similar local businesses.
So you have a whole range of different alternatives in terms of online local marketing. There’s no excuse not to make use of any of the free services online. In the event you do choose to pay for ads then choose cautiously and target them well.
If you are keen on local adversting, Andrew Reynolds and Tim Lowe are recommended. For more information, the following:
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<p>Hi Andrew and Tim,<br /> <br /> I do agree with you regarding local business listings at Google. This free local marketing service has been a long time coming to help the local business reach the local consumer through web searches and mobile searches.</p> <p><br /> What I am most concerned about are small and local businesses having to contend with multiple websites when it comes to their local listing. What I'm really talking about are "time resources".<br /> <br /> Afterall, there are over 60 websites in 4 different categories specifically geared towards local listings. How can a local or small business have the time resources to cover this space?<br /> <br /> Even if you made a conscious decision to not manage all 60, there are well more than Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The space goes to Local.com (they went public), Yelp, Merchant Circle, and many others.<br /> <br /> Consumers will be the ones deciding which of these local listing websites they will go and post their experience through consumer reviews. This adds to the burden that no one single local listing website will do the trick.<br /> <br /> Something we recently read at KillerStartUps are companies that are offering a low cost service to update then manage these listings for companies. You can read about this at KillerStartUps here:<br /> <br /> http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/smartfindslocallisting-com-be-found-online<br /> <br /> It is a changing world and the local business will benefit. There will be some adjustment to this space needed.<br /> <br /> Good information from your post and hopefully varying opinions help give perspective.<br /> <br /> </p>