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Why has local business marketing<\/a> become such a driving force in search engine optimization? One of the big reasons is the rise of smartphones and tablets. People no longer have to print out information about a business or look things up in a phone book. Addresses, phone numbers, website and customer reviews are all available in a convenient, handheld format. When you include the rise of Twitter and Facebook and the resulting wave of social media marketing<\/a>, it\u2019s easy to see why local SEO is so critical to a site\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

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If you have a local business and are looking to increase your visibility, local search engine marketing is one great way to do it. Several companies offer local search engine marketing<\/a> and can handle every aspect, from getting your business listed with the appropriate local online directories to building your website. However, you can also do many the steps yourself. Here are a few things you should definitely consider doing immediately if you are doing your own local search engine marketing:<\/p>\n

Perform basic SEO: <\/b>Simply put, you can\u2019t have local SEO unless you have your traditional SEO house in order. This means having a well-constructed, informative website with plenty of useful content and intelligently linked keywords. You\u2019ll want to strengthen this with other SEO practices such as purchasing in-bound links.<\/p>\n

Create and update your business listings: <\/b>As a small business, you need to make sure that your company is listed with all of the standard business listing sites. One of the first steps in this is to make sure that you have a Dun & Bradstreet number<\/a>. Another step is to update your contact information with InfoUSA<\/a>. Once you have done this, the information will gradually start feeding to places like the Yellow Pages and other online business directories.<\/p>\n

Claim your online presence: <\/b>This means going out to sites like Google+, Bing, Yahoo and Yelp and taking control of your company\u2019s pages. You\u2019ll want to make sure that the name, address and phone number are consistent and match what is on your website. Add photos and descriptions and encourage your customers to add positive reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why has local business marketing become such a driving force in search engine optimization? One of the big reasons is the rise of smartphones and tablets. People no longer have to print out information about a business or look things up in a phone book. Addresses, phone numbers, website and customer reviews are all available […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,1],"tags":[55,49],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-development","category-entrepreneurship","category-seo-process","tag-how-to","tag-local"],"yoast_head":"\nBasic Steps for DIY Local Business Marketing | eVisible Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Local business marketing is becoming more important to business success. 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