Using Local Search to Garner Traffic

There are a dozen strategies to help promote your business locally. However thanks to technology promoting your business locally just got a whole lot easier thanks to Social Media. Social media has emerged as a huge part of the web landscape. When properly executed, social profiles on social networking sites improve your image, build your brand, and send more traffic to your website.

John Jantsch, DuctTapeMarketing, put out a great list of resources on OPEN.

For starting a local group

• Ning
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Groupon
• Twitter Lists
• Slideshare
• Wishlist Member

Finding local bloggers

• Placeblogger
• Twellow
• Bloglines

Creating local meetings

• Eventbrite
• MeetUp
• Biznik

To mine local leads

• Search.twitter
• Twellowhood
• Tweepsearch
• LocalTweeps
• Bing Maps Twitter App
• Universal Business Listing
• Yelp!
• Insider Pages
• Citysearch

Calacles Interactive local search optimization services help businesses be found by people searching for local businesses. The amount of people searching for local services continues to increase, so the opportunity to get more business from local search is also growing. Contact us today!