In order to get the best results from the search engines you need to have you as many links as possible pointing to your site. These links need to be from sites that are related to your business and include your keywords in the link text.
How do you get them? You find sites that are in your industry and ask them to exchange links. The best way to find them is to search Google for your keywords. The top sites under those searches will be the ones that Google feels are most relevant.
You’ve probably heard people talking about Craigslist. It’s an online classified system. Most people use it to buy/sell used merchandise.
You can use it to promote your website. It doesn’t cost anything to post an ad, and takes about 5 minutes. When you have a link in your post it will help you with your search engine placement.
Post today, you have nothing to lose but a couple minutes of time.
I would suggest posting every day for a while to test it out. Additionally, creating an account for posting makes life easier.
About us is a unique site that makes it easy to get another link to your website. You just look up a domain name in there, and if it’s not already listed in the directory it will add it. From there you can add details after creating an account.
eBeaverton is a local website with an online yellow pages. You can get both paid and free advertising. To start you need to register for an account. When you login you’ll have the opportunity to add a listing.
Nodd’s Neighborhood is a truly unique directory. It let’s you visually see the city. You have to look at it to understand. Both paid and free advertising is available.
MagicYellow – Magic Yellow has done a great job of getting search engine results for many local keywords. If you search in google for your category and see a magic yellow page up, you want to make sure you have a listing there. They have both paid and free listings.
Super Pages Listing – Many people who used to use yellow pages now rely on website versions. Super Pages is one of the big ones, and they’ll let you put up a basic listing free.
Local Yahoo – Yahoo is number 2 in the search engine game (Google’s Number 1), so this is certainly worth doing. They have some interesting paid opportunities for local searches as well.
Google Local – The best part about this service is that if someone searches for “Your City and business category” you have a good opportunity of showing up at the very top of the page.