Local SEO And Marketing Is Wide Open And Hot

I am going to start focusing much more on local marketing. I really think this is where the opportunities lie right now. There are millions of regular non internet marketing type businesses who are completely lost when it comes to marketing their business online locally. If you are even reading this post you probably know 100 times more than the average brick and mortar business owner about online marketing and social media.

My plan is to concentrate industries that spend money on advertising and setting up local directories to accommodate them. It is much easier to get ranked for a local + professional term than a generic professional term. Right now local marketing is wide open. Millions of Google Places pages have not been claimed. Even those who have been claimed have not been fully optimized.

I suggest looking around you local area and notice the advertising. What is on top of the taxis and on the side of buses? If a business will spend money on bus ads how much do you think they will pay you to improve their local online presence? See who is spending money on advertising in your area.. Think how you could help people locally in these areas promote their businesses online.

I had set up this domain several years ago for a local sushi restaurant that now is out of business. (I really helped them! LOL) See Sushifortlauderdale.com I really just had set up a simple blog with my testimonial about their restaurant. I did no SEO or promotion work other than that.

I was number 1 in Google for many months for Sushi Fort Lauderdale. They told me customers came in just because of that one blog post. I had forgotten about the domain until recently when I started setting up link directories on my other domains. See here.

Actually someone hacked the Sushi Fort Lauderdale blog and I received an email notice of this. I then thought why not take down the blog and put up a little local directory for local Sushi restaurants based on the same script I used for the other link directories. See here to view my reviews of link directory scripts.

I owned a license for unlimited domains, and after setting up 9 link directories I could whip them out pretty fast. I said what the heck and set up a little directory for local sushi restaurants. You can see the directory here at Sushifortlauderdale.com

I really do not expect to make much money with this niche. There are only so many sushi restaurants in Fort Lauderdale but I thought it would be a fun test.

I plan on setting up local directories in much more profitable niches and local seoing them like crazy. I am also looking forward to getting of the computer and meeting people in person to talk about my local advertising packages.

Do not limit yourself to all the internet marketing type products or mlm products that appeal to a wide geographic audience. You have a strategic advantage marketing in your local area over all the national players. Keep your eyes and ears open to local marketing opportunities.

If you have ideas about local marketing and local seo I would love to hear them here. Even if you have a related article you would like to share, send it to me and if it is good I will publish it and promote it here on the blog.