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Local Search: Buy Local? Sell Local!

With the Internet consumers are able to buy products and services from around the country or even the world. But what if your company has a product or service that people generally shop locally for? Doctors, dentists, pizza, doggy day care, whatever? How can you make sure local customers find you, and not your competition in Dallas, Texas?

John Boulter of Bastion Internet runs a Web marketing podcast called Drive It - Convert It! In his most recent episode he goes through--step-by-step--how to come up higher in local search.

My favorite tips from the show are how to get into Yahoo, MSN and Google's local search. Often, when your customers do intelligent searches, such as "portland maine pizza" they'll see three local results above the rest of the organic results.

John provides links for you to submit to the local search of Google, Yahoo and MSN as well as a host of other important links.

Having just moved our offices, knowing how to update my local address was very important. As you can see, Google Local still has us at our old address. They say it may be 30 - 60 days before our new address shows up.

So, what are you waiting for? Go local!

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