Trying to rank in local search

[jd2898854]

I though I would see if I could make a site and get it to the top for a local keyword search. The keyword gets about 1,200,000 results and most of the top sites are yellowpages or crappy PR0 blogs.

So I got a domain, City-keyword.com, and wrote a few articles for it. Put these articles on ezines, squidoo, digg, and got a few backlinks for the site. I watched the site move up to about the 25th page but now it just kind of hangs there. The site is about 2 months old now.

Any other things I should be doing? I'm thinking I should just start getting tons of backlinks for my buffer sites?

 

[lived66]

I though I would see if I could make a site and get it to the top for a local keyword search. The keyword gets about 1,200,000 results and most of the top sites are yellowpages or crappy PR0 blogs.

So I got a domain, City-keyword.com, and wrote a few articles for it. Put these articles on ezines, squidoo, digg, and got a few backlinks for the site. I watched the site move up to about the 25th page but now it just kind of hangs there. The site is about 2 months old now.

Any other things I should be doing? I'm thinking I should just start getting tons of backlinks for my buffer sites?

Don't see your site...

 

[Celsius]

I remember there are videos on this exact thing in the download area. Do a search I bet you will find what your looking for.

 

[kez1000]

I though I would see if I could make a site and get it to the top for a local keyword search. The keyword gets about 1,200,000 results and most of the top sites are yellowpages or crappy PR0 blogs.

So I got a domain, City-keyword.com, and wrote a few articles for it. Put these articles on ezines, squidoo, digg, and got a few backlinks for the site. I watched the site move up to about the 25th page but now it just kind of hangs there. The site is about 2 months old now.

Any other things I should be doing? I'm thinking I should just start getting tons of backlinks for my buffer sites?

you have to optimize your listings to the max and then build up reviews and citations

 

[troybh]

Two months is not enough time. These kind of listings it has a lot to do with the domain age.

 

[doombot1]

Two months is not enough time. These kind of listings it has a lot to do with the domain age.

ditto - 2-3 months is your window assuming ur seo is complete

 

[goldstrike4u]

Are you talking about normal serps but for a local search term, or the Google local results? If you are talking about Google local results the best site I've come across fro ranking factors for this is here:

http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml#42