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Get listed on Yahoo! Local - Yahoo! Local helps you find the things you need in your neighborhood and beyond. It gives you the names and phone numbers of local services and businesses, and also shows you information related to them. For instance, you'll get the name and address of your local deli, the time it opens, whether it accepts Visa, and maybe even how helpful the wait staff is. As Yahoo! Local evolves, we hope to provide expanded information to make your search results even more precise and comprehensive. MoreYahoo! Local and Maps Blog

Steven Brier over at Local Internet USA brought up a good point to me recently, in that the focus on submitting to Local Search Engines and Directories is not so much about the time it takes to submit to them all, but rather the work it takes identify your keywords and create some compelling and attractive copy that will draw your target audience in from these local search engines and directories.  This obviously comes from a professional who see the results of well thought out copy.

Before submitting to search directories, your website should be optimized with your keywords.  You’ll want to make sure these make it into your listing copy where appropriate.  Here is more information on Local SEO for your website .

GOOGLE PLACES

The Contents Of Your Ad

Just to cover off the basics of a Google Local Ad.....

As with any landing page, there are some basics that Google Local needs, and these are asfollows:

HOW TO STAND OUT IN GOOGLE PLACES

Marketing your business, product or service online via Google Places can be tricky. Immediately, you are faced with millions upon millions of competitors, all with one goal, to get your potential customer to pick your page, amongst the many others, to click, to go into, to visit, and ultimately, to purchase what you are selling. While everybody seems to have a different way of achieving this, we, at Discount Web Designer have come to rely on a fail-safe formula for creating our Google Local ads. Below is a detailed account on how we make our Google Locals. Read up, take some notes, and pay attention, because should you do everything correctly, trust us when we say that your customers will certainly come knocking!