New Marketing Secret: Free Tips on Local Search Engine Marketing
Local Seo Is A Powerful, Effective Way to Promote Your Business
One of the good things about the growing use of the internet is that it is becoming easier to promote your business in your local community. We are a printing business and we have been here in Sonoma County for over 50 years. And we have experienced real pressure on our business because of computers and the internet.
But now there is an opportunity to capitalize on the fact that people are looking to find things in their own communities, like Sebastopol or Santa Rosa, not just buy things on Amazon or Ebay. On the whole people are developing in the use of their computer and are searching for services and products in their local community. And the search engines have recognized that.
Google, Yahoo and Bing have set up local search results that help find local businesses that people are looking for. And getting your name into these directories is free. The search engine companies realized that making it easier for people to find what they were looking for, especially on a local level, made the search engine more valuable because people would use it more regularly. So they decided to add these local search capacities for free. nadda. zilch.
This is like being listed in the yellow pages for free! I suggest you look into how to do this for yourself. Below is a link to a youtube video where Google introduces their service. They call their service Google Places.
I suggest you check it out and consider making your business more findable on the internet. This is something you can do yourself or we at Ajalon can help you do this if you don’t have the inclination or time to set it up. The search engines are battling for this part of the market right now and you can benefit for free.
Written by David Walrath
Ajalon Printing & Design
Tags: business, Ebay, Google, internet, marketing, promote your business, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, sonoma county, Yahoo
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