How can I get traffic to my local business?

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Getting traffic is an ongoing task and you must be constantly doing it, if you want to get traffic and keep it. Here are some of the ways to get traffic for business website:

1.Optimize your site for search engines.
2.Frequently update the contents of your site.
3.Take advantage of social bookmarking sites.
4.Use your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
5.Get links with other sites in your niche.
6.Use any chance to promote your site for free.
7.Use offline promotion.

The ways we discussed in this article and you apply them properly, it is guaranteed that you will be able to get more traffic for your website.

Thanks
 
You can set up a cafe or shop offline and online promotion.

It only works for the customer, and you must have regular customers who visit your offline store
 
I know this thread has been idle for a week or so now but I thought it best I post here rather than create a new one.

I've been doing a bit of SEO on my own offline local business these past few weeks. I'd created a G plus page perhaps as long as a year ago and then done nothing at all with it. Maybe a week-10 days or so ago, I added just one single post on there and as of this morning my G Plus page article appears position 5 on page one of Big G for 4 of my main keywords. That's some result I think (was a surprise to me anyway) so don't neglect your G Plus page in amongst all your other social media promotion.

Next up for me will be a couple of whiteboard videos for my youtube channel. No-one is using youtube in my city for my industry so I'm expecting to occupy another space or 2 on page one of the search engine soon enough.
 
cataratas said:
I know this thread has been idle for a week or so now but I thought it best I post here rather than create a new one.

I've been doing a bit of SEO on my own offline local business these past few weeks. I'd created a G plus page perhaps as long as a year ago and then done nothing at all with it. Maybe a week-10 days or so ago, I added just one single post on there and as of this morning my G Plus page article appears position 5 on page one of Big G for 4 of my main keywords. That's some result I think (was a surprise to me anyway) so don't neglect your G Plus page in amongst all your other social media promotion.

Next up for me will be a couple of whiteboard videos for my youtube channel. No-one is using youtube in my city for my industry so I'm expecting to occupy another space or 2 on page one of the search engine soon enough.
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Awesome! Glad you are getting results!
 
Hello, Social media is the best option for getting traffic and, other than that, you can also use SEO like link building by using a Blog and article creation. And post thos blogs and article on high PR sites. Maybe it can help you to get more and more traffic.

Lemosys
 
You can use Google adword adds to get geo targeted traffic, also there are other CPA networks from where you can get targeted local traffic.
 
Try to find appropriate forums and FB groups and answer users' queries. While doing that you can also offer your services and make some new customers.
 
I don't know if it's just my industry but forums are hard work for me and yield four fifths of f*** all. I find people who run forums to not only be defensive but they don't like people touting for business even indirectly. Of course you are going to reply here and say "well you need to be more subtle than to tout your wares- you need time to build trust....etc etc" but I'm a serial struggler with forums as a way to get business I must admit and that's nearly 20 years of trying on and off.

Meanwhile, social media for local businesses requires learning and skill but the pay off can be quick and direct. It works a treat so stick with the learning curve and execute.
 
I noticed this thread is a tad bit old and maybe no one will read this, but I'm posting anyway. Why is it that very few are actually offering sound advice for this?

My Advice

Track your visitor, behavior data leads to targeted sales copy, which leads to sales. Argue against this and you are a moron. Th more you know your customer, the more sales you can generate from your customer. Th more of the same type of business in your town, the more money to be made. My area has like 7-15 repair shops, some close up after a bit while others do fairly well. Thre is a flourish of BestBuy, Staples, off brand mega computer stores that are over expensive, no where near Amazon or eBay pricing models. I whoop their ass by targeting their ad campaigns, their pricing and sales, and their clientele. Almost all of my clientele (I get really ungrateful idiots sometimes) thank me for what I do, I Offer quality customer care. It isn't about pricing, which I can go lower than my competitors even with their "sales", but more about targeting my clientele, building repeat sales, and then profits to reinvest into a anchor for my business. If times are slow, my anchor investments, real estate rentals to adsense youtube accounts hold me up for revenue until sales get strong again. This happens when people "think" they are getting a better buy from Amazon and eBay (90% think that the beat to shit products or used products are fantastic until they start to use them, then the quality kicks in and the crawl back to me to fix it).

Moral is psychology is king to make people give you their money.
 
Soul collector says:

"Why is it that very few are actually offering sound advice for this?"

Then says, inter alia:

"Track your visitor, behavior data leads to targeted sales copy, which leads to sales."

The irony will be lost on absolutely noone here at all.
 
cataratas said:
Soul collector says:

"Why is it that very few are actually offering sound advice for this?"

Then says, inter alia:

"Track your visitor, behavior data leads to targeted sales copy, which leads to sales."

The irony will be lost on absolutely noone here at all.
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Though I do see your point to where this was applying to go, you lost on me on how it was not beneficial (maybe perhaps I'd need to write a thesis paper on this for you to even properly understand how simple this could get or I could just simplfy my statement).

You need to control reactrions, so you'd go to biology and then psychology to learn or attempt to control reactions. Joy is a reaction from chemicals produced by the brain. Joy is a sub form of happy, so you'd target the actions that lead to reactions that make up happy. Based on the physical nature of the persona being targeted, their behaviors might be identical to some degree that would form a general classification, but later would become dissimilar as more reactions would be influenced by separate reactions. It is the same as teaching a baby to read, understand, and react to the word toilet before they are taught to speak. You can influence to a certain extent how you want your baby to react to the word toilet, then it is up to the actions you can't control (how much poop hurts coming out, how uncomfortable or comfortable they feel when being relieved) that will ultimately lead to their definition of the word toilet.

So the irony was that without visitors you can get no data, which in general you'll need to get people to visit. My solution should be more clear, you'll depend on the advanced knowledge of psychology and biology and the manipulation of both to a finite degree in order to gain insight on how to get visitors to perform a specific reaction. Either by the way of governments (training people to react how they perceive to by influence at a young age in school), or by the way of big business (influences on different areas of education or family well being aka churches).

I'd go into it further, but I frankly don't have the time to write some odd 900 pages explaining what I mean in vivid detail. I dumbed it down as what I saw fit that people could read, but rather in dumbing it down did I lose you in translation or lost parable?
 
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Social media sites are great. You may also wish to do somethings offline as well. How about an add in the local paper, or you can do flyers or bumper stickers or the car stickers, etc. Think outside the box.
 
Still reading this thread and getting helpful advice. Appreciate it.
My website has been up for about a week.. it doesn't rank well at all because it is pretty new and I haven't done much SEO on it.

Since this is a new site, what SEO tactics would be good to get an organic ranking for my website?
I've considered going with an SEO company that is charging about $200 monthly to rank my site and says it can get to first page in a couple of months. I met this person on fiverr. Any recommendations?

I just launched my first google Adwords campaign about an hour ago with some keywords and messed around with it for the first time.
Will keep you guys updated, and once again appreciate all the advice.
 
Good one Tech....!

Techxan said:
Go to brightlocal.com, and subscribe for the $20 a month plan and then go in and run all the reports for your business that you can. They have a free month, so if you are not going to stay subscribed, run the reports again just before you cancel.

Using these reports, start working on the problems these reports show you. Pay particular attention to page titles, h1 tags and descriptions. Make sure your site is responsive or you have a mobile version, mobile experience is becoming a ranking factor.

Keep your location and main keywords in the title and heading tags.

Descriptions are not used for ranking, but they are generally shown in the search results, so make the description informative and designed to get a click, not necessarily to match the keyword.

Make sure that you have your NAP on the website in microcode, use a schema generator for this purpose, and put this in the footer of every page on the site.

Since you have a store, the local algorithm will help you rank, so learn how to do citations. Run the citations report from BL, and start getting citations. Use the list they provide and get the ones with a rating above 30. Do the highest rated ones, but do not worry about the paid ones for now.

Gather up some pictures to use for the citations, and make sure to have a picture of your store front included. Use the same pictures in the same order when you upload them, and upload the storefront one first.

Make about 200 or so citations as fast as you can and make them identical to each other. (pm me if you need to and I will teach you how).

When I ran my computer repair shop, I had guys and girls who came by to do the repairs I couldn't do. I would take in game systems, and laptop screen repairs and power connection repairs, and these people wuld stop by and do the repairs I had accumulated on a regular schedule when I had work for them.

You might consider doing this if you offer a high value service that other shops do not offer. You can give these other shops a good rate, and spend a couple of afternoons making rounds each week.

Go into Googfe alerts and put alerts for everything you can think of about your service for Q and A sites. use th site command (site:answers.yahoo.com fix phone screen), and go to these sites when a question pops up. Every once in a while, drop a link to your site and your NAP, especially if the question is in your vicinity.

Go into the various tech repair platforms (work market, field solutions, onforce, and so on) an list your services with them. Getting a drug test and a background check will increase the number of calls in your area you are eligible for.

If your area allows bandit signs, have some made up and put them out near shopping places like best buy for the weekend, being sure to go pick them up at the end of the weekend. This has the potiental to bring in repairs from the people who went to best buy and crap when they find found out what fixing the item will cost with GeekSquad.At the rate GS screws things up, you will get work they create for you.

At your place of business set up a geo cache and set up a video camera so you can show people who find the geo cache. List the geo cache with geocaching websites and the video feed with camsites for great back links.

If your place of business is near a mall, sporting arena, freeway, or other local point of interest, put up a webcam, and list it with cam sites using your business NAP in the location description. This creates powerful citations.

That should keep you busy for a day or two.

DON'T build backlinks to your site unless they come along with the citations you build. Don't let anyone do seo on your webste if they want to build backlinks.
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sumer720 said:
Still reading this thread and getting helpful advice. Appreciate it.
My website has been up for about a week.. it doesn't rank well at all because it is pretty new and I haven't done much SEO on it.

Since this is a new site, what SEO tactics would be good to get an organic ranking for my website?
I've considered going with an SEO company that is charging about $200 monthly to rank my site and says it can get to first page in a couple of months. I met this person on fiverr. Any recommendations?

I just launched my first google Adwords campaign about an hour ago with some keywords and messed around with it for the first time.
Will keep you guys updated, and once again appreciate all the advice.
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Just make sure you are getting a report each month and confirm what the SEO compnay is doing. If you get to page one, after a few months if the rank maintains you can cut them loose and maintain the rank yourself with minimal effort.
 
You Should Post Your Business to High PR Site...
Simply just Search in Google and then Sing up to High PR Business Listing Site And then List or Described your business in a foam of posting your service, your pictures, your videos, all those thing.

And Then Share to Your Social Media...

I Confidently Say that in a Short tram time you get a traffic/Visitors From Different Different Countries.

i Am Waiting For your Positive Replies.

Thank You..
 
sumer720 said:
Hello, I have a local phone and tablet repair store and have been in business close to a year. I get a lot of traffic via craigslist, and some through Facebook and of course word of mouth. But I need to put a plan together to bring in some sales.

Facebook works good but the conversion rate isn't as high as I'd like, and I'm having a hard time targeting my audience because phone/tablet repair is something everyone can relate to now a days so I don't know what to narrow my audience to. I honestly don't have any filters besides running my ads to everyone in my city. I'd really like to get some ideas on how to make the most out of my Facebook ads because I've been running 4-5 day ads spending about $30-$50 a day so I really want to get the most from my money.

I have a yelp page but I need reviews. I'm trying to get customers to go online and leave a review for a discount or free accessory but lot of them get put in the "non recommended" section. Can someone tell me how I can at least get 5 positive reviews to stick on my yelp listing? That will help me gain a lot of credibility and hopefully ranking. I just signed up with a paid per click ad service with yelp that starts next month so I solid, reputable page would help.

I have a google+ page for my business that has only one 3 star review. The person building my website won't be done with it for another week or so, so I haven't spent any money or anything to get my business to rank because I want to have a website to send my traffic to. I would like to rank somewhere in the first 5-7 listings on google for "Phone Repair" "iPad Repair" "iPhone Repair" and so on.. I'm a noob when it comes to SEO so any advice on how to achieve that would be really beneficial.

All of your ideas and thoughts would help me. If I'm doing something wrong please correct me. I'm a 21 year old entrepreneur looking to learn. Thank you. :)
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Focus on buyer keywords along with having your state/country name after it. For example "SEO Company Place Name", thats how you should do it.
 
Do you use Facebook Ad Campaigns to target your audience? Your target should be the city you are living in. You should target people of all ages for that city.
Also, it is great to have a Google+ Business Page. Now in order to get sales, you shall undergo LOCAL SEO for your website and trust me your business will rock. We can discuss on this in detail, if you need "Local SEO" to be done for your business.

Thanks
 
I'm curious - what did he mean by this---

At your place of business set up a geo cache and set up a video camera so you can show people who find the geo cache. List the geo cache with geocaching websites and the video feed with camsites for great back links.

Trying to understand what he meant by setting up a geocache and setting up video camera and listing it with geocaching websites?


Techxan said:
Go to brightlocal.com, and subscribe for the $20 a month plan and then go in and run all the reports for your business that you can. They have a free month, so if you are not going to stay subscribed, run the reports again just before you cancel.

Using these reports, start working on the problems these reports show you. Pay particular attention to page titles, h1 tags and descriptions. Make sure your site is responsive or you have a mobile version, mobile experience is becoming a ranking factor.

Keep your location and main keywords in the title and heading tags.

Descriptions are not used for ranking, but they are generally shown in the search results, so make the description informative and designed to get a click, not necessarily to match the keyword.

Make sure that you have your NAP on the website in microcode, use a schema generator for this purpose, and put this in the footer of every page on the site.

Since you have a store, the local algorithm will help you rank, so learn how to do citations. Run the citations report from BL, and start getting citations. Use the list they provide and get the ones with a rating above 30. Do the highest rated ones, but do not worry about the paid ones for now.

Gather up some pictures to use for the citations, and make sure to have a picture of your store front included. Use the same pictures in the same order when you upload them, and upload the storefront one first.

Make about 200 or so citations as fast as you can and make them identical to each other. (pm me if you need to and I will teach you how).

When I ran my computer repair shop, I had guys and girls who came by to do the repairs I couldn't do. I would take in game systems, and laptop screen repairs and power connection repairs, and these people wuld stop by and do the repairs I had accumulated on a regular schedule when I had work for them.

You might consider doing this if you offer a high value service that other shops do not offer. You can give these other shops a good rate, and spend a couple of afternoons making rounds each week.

Go into Googfe alerts and put alerts for everything you can think of about your service for Q and A sites. use th site command (site:answers.yahoo.com fix phone screen), and go to these sites when a question pops up. Every once in a while, drop a link to your site and your NAP, especially if the question is in your vicinity.

Go into the various tech repair platforms (work market, field solutions, onforce, and so on) an list your services with them. Getting a drug test and a background check will increase the number of calls in your area you are eligible for.

If your area allows bandit signs, have some made up and put them out near shopping places like best buy for the weekend, being sure to go pick them up at the end of the weekend. This has the potiental to bring in repairs from the people who went to best buy and crap when they find found out what fixing the item will cost with GeekSquad.At the rate GS screws things up, you will get work they create for you.

At your place of business set up a geo cache and set up a video camera so you can show people who find the geo cache. List the geo cache with geocaching websites and the video feed with camsites for great back links.

If your place of business is near a mall, sporting arena, freeway, or other local point of interest, put up a webcam, and list it with cam sites using your business NAP in the location description. This creates powerful citations.

That should keep you busy for a day or two.

DON'T build backlinks to your site unless they come along with the citations you build. Don't let anyone do seo on your webste if they want to build backlinks.
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