Secrets to Getting Local Search Engine Traffic
Posted by | Posted in Marketing and Advertising | Posted on 25-04-2011
If you want to get more targeted traffic from people in your area, local SEO is the best way to do it. Given below are a few simple local SEO tips that you can use to get ranked better.
One of the simplest methods you can use for local SEO is writing optimized classified ads. This is a simple way to take advantage of local search efforts because the big search engines really like those kinds of sites and the more you use them the more likely it is that you can send targeted local traffic to your business’s website. When you are beginning your efforts you should start with Craigslist because it is the most popular classified web site on the internet. As a business owner you need to be sure that you are posting optimized ads on Craigslist on a regular basis. This ad needs to be directly targeted towards your chosen niche. Make sure that the ad is not loud and that it is as simple as possible. When you write the ad, focus on the title because this is what increases most of the response.
The keyword phrase and your city and state should be included in the title. You might think of your Craigslist ad as a landing page of sorts because, if you pay attention, you’ll see that often the ads on Craiglist are higher ranked than the websites they advertise. A smart strategy for your Craigslist ad is to use it as a means for sending very targeted traffic to your website, which should be your main goal. If you want to expand your reach you can try USFreeAds; you won’t get as good a response from it as you would from Craigslist but it is still a well ranked classified ads site so it is better than nothing. What you should be trying to do with your ads is to send as much traffic as you can to your major site either directly or by piggy backing off of the traffic to the site.

