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| Free course that teaches all the in's and out's of Google Maps Marketing and Google Maps SEO. http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/locallistings/ Tip Credibility: 16 |
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| If a restaurant, offer great meal discounts for those who follow you. Send out an hour before lunch & dinner. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Use Twitter as an employee management system. If your staff is young (like fast food or restaurant) it's a great way to update schedules, cancel if slow, or even find replacements if employee is sick at last minute, etc. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Get your clients on Twitter or find out which ones are on Twitter and if you have a cancellation Tweet out an available slot at a discount to you don't lose the time. Perfect for service industry like hair stylist, massage therapist, etc. Tip Credibility: 10 |
| Here is a decent list of resources that can help you make your own customized twitter background: http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/social/twitter-pimp-out-your-backgrounds/ Tip Credibility: 3 |
| A great free wordpres plugin autoresponder (like a mini aweber) , perfect for small biz that is on a budget: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autoresponder-gwa/ Tip Credibility: 5 |
| learn and understand what blended search is and then target local verticals, video, images, news (press releases), etc.
http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/blendedsearch/ Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Hold local meet ups with from networking online through Twitter, Friendfeed, YouTube, Facebook, Myspace -if anyone is on myspace anymore:). Great way to strength relationship by using online & offline. it leads to referrals, links, guest posts, etc. Tip Credibility: 8 |
| Use authority sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, Scribd, Flickr, etc. to rank on the long tail keywords. Create a Google maps mashup with flickr to grab more virtual real estate for your off line sales. Add content about local area to beef up content. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Yes create a site for your local RE biz, but also create a state, or country wide site with other real estate agents all working together to create quality content. then use the site to drive traffic & link love to your local site. Gr8 way for JV's too. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| The best links are from quality content. So it's not just the link that is providing link love, but also real human traffic because the content is exceptional. Always write for humans first. Tip Credibility: 8 |
| A little link building goes long way with ranking well for local search. Make sure you are using anchor text & relevant keywords: http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/using-relevant-keywords/ Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Creating a facebook page & building links to it is a gr8 way to get a 2nd ranking for your major local keywords. You can have your website ranking well & some web 2.0 properties ranking well -push the competition off the 1st page so all links lead to you Tip Credibility: 15 |
| Do a search on some of your major keywords, see which local directories are ranking already on the first 3 pages then submit to those directories since they are already have rankings & the SERPs like them. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| A quick & dirty way to get some great anchor text back links is to sign up for web 2.0 sites & most allow you to create a profile & offer a spot to add a do-follow link. 3-5 these day can dramatically create big results after only 30 days. Don't spam. Tip Credibility: 7 |
| Write articles and submit them to article directories, but then find who is using them and contact them and offer to do guest post or unique article for their site for a backlink(s). Tip Credibility: 8 |
| I use aaron walls'seo toolbar a lot:http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/ Great for quick info when analyzing SEO. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Use some social media to communicate with your local community online: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Make sure you on-page SEO is correct on your website. Two most important are: Title Tag & Meta Description :http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/blog/seo/on-page-seo/ Tip Credibility: 3 |
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