Does your business serve a local audience? If it does, please answer this question: “How many times did you use the phone book in the last year?”
Statistics from Google support the long-held assumption that print directories, like your local phone book, are losing popularity. Even web-based subscription directories such as YellowPages.com are losing market share to the effectiveness of raw organic search results. Many people looking for a local plumber, florist, house cleaner or dry cleaner now begin their search online.
Compared with traditional print advertising, online local search advertising is a more cost-effective way to reach a local audience. It allows you to give your customers more information about your business and provide them with a direct link to your web site. You can target customers in the geographic area that your business serves. This means that if you are a florist in Seattle, when someone from Seattle searches for a florist your information shows up automatically. Now that’s cool.
At LinkedIQ, we help you increase your presence in both local search engines and business directories so that your customers can find your company. We help you decide where your ads would be most effectively placed and how to get the biggest return on your investment.
Start your local search account with LinkedIQ through:
Basic Listings
Place your company’s basic information (name, address, phone number) in local search directories.Sponsored Local Search
Create advertisements that give your company premium placement in local search results.Business Directories
Create business listings that describe your business, hours of operation, methods of payment, and contain pictures, logos, and coupons.
