Unique Content Article: Send Targeted Traffic Flocking Your Way With Local SEO

<h2 class = 'uawtitle'>Send Targeted Traffic Flocking Your Way With Local SEO</h2><br />
<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Tyrone Velazquez</div><br /><br />
<div class='uawarticle'>Believe it or not, local search engine optimization has been around for a long time. Given below are a few tips to help you leverage local searches for your business.<br />
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As a marketer using local SEO, you really have to get into the mindset of someone in your target market who is doing a search engine query. You have to understand how they think to be able to optimize your site for the search engines. The trick is to imagine that you were someone doing a search engine query for a product you are marketing, and consider what words you would most likely search for. If your store specialized in golf accessories, for example, you would try to picture how people would search for your products. If the searcher enters something like "golf" into the site's search box, they aren't looking for what you're selling since this term is too generic. If someone does a search for "golf courses," they are not looking for what you are selling either. Someone who enters "golf accessories," though, is a likely customer for your store, so this is the kind of keyword to be focusing on. Business owners, who are looking out to drive local traffic, forget to go for these less popular keyword phrases that can bring in real sales. They tend to target the same keywords everyone else is trying to rank for, the very top ones with the most traffic. It helps you to target the most effective keywords if you can put yourself in the customer's place. Once you perfect the art of targeting such specific keywords, you'll not only increase sales but also get higher rankings on multiple keywords.<br />
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Most of the local websites out there have no problem with business owners asking clients and customers to post reviews (Yelp is one of these sites). Because this is allowed and you can benefit from it quite a bit, why not do it? Make sure you let your clients know about this in as many ways as you possibly can. You can say something as simple as "Hi it would be great if you can take out time to review our business on XYZ Local." You already understand that you won't be able to control what is written in the reviews themselves but just having them online will help build your business's credibility and make you look more reliable to new clients. This is one tip that you should try out no matter what because it has a lot of potential and can help you big time with your rankings.<br />
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You should also try to get listed with all those directories that are the Yellow Pages on the web. Other good directories to begin with are SuperPages.com, YellowBook.com and YelloPages.com. It is notable that YellowPages.com gets tons of local searches each month (over 100 million) and they still offer free listings too. On the other hand SuperPages.com supplies its listing to big portals such as About.com and MSN. It is free to list with them but the listing is basic.<br />
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All in all, these SEO tips can take you far as long as you use them.<br />
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Title: Send Targeted Traffic Flocking Your Way With Local SEO<br />
Author: Tyrone Velazquez<br />
Email: Submissions@robselaney.com<br />
Keywords: make money online,work from home,marketing,business<br />
Word Count: 532<br />
Category: Marketing<br />
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