Where do i find Local SEO Clients?
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Hey,
So i've been doing SEO for a while now and know a lot of tactics and a lot of ways to get my/others sites hire.
I know good software (and have that software with full licenses and know the methods to use it in whitehat ways that will work well), internal content linking, title/description, webmaster tools (both google and bing), sitemaps etc...
I have clients and my own sites that i have managed to get high in google, as well as my own local site that is number 1 in Google for my hometown + SEO, but that only gets about 80 searches a month and gets me very little if any phone calls a week.
I've also just ordered 250 high quality business cards, that i spent ages designing to look awesome.. If these work well i'll print some more and stick all over the place...
I currently have 2 local clients, 1 is a local web agency who every client they have they pay me a specific amount to boost that company in Google and the other is just a family friend who pays me a small amount a month to build links for him.
I'd like to have 10-15+ clients all on my payroll with a nice amount of income that i can live off.
I just finished full-time school and am just coming into the big wide world and have for paid for my new laptop, desktop, 2 monitors, SEO software licenses and SEOMoz account from niche blogs, software and SEO coaching and such..
I've built a brilliant online portfolio for people and have had a lot of great feedback from online clients.
But i can only earn around $10-$110 per online client for SEO and around $8/hour for coaching... I'd like to be able to make that a LOT more.
I do web/graphic design as well and have built a nice portfolio for that as well.
So back to the main question, how did you and how do i get local clients?
Thanks!
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Hi there,
I'd like to ask if your online portfolio is targeted locally - that is important to local seo. Or do you have your own business website that represents the service you are offering?
I have worked for a client whose business is local SEO. Below are some of the tasks we usually do:
- optimize his business website locally (we usually include the area in the keywords - e.g. local seo consultant+san jose area) to target seo clients from a specific area.
- we submit a complete company profile to leading local directories (yahoo directory, bing local, google places, yelp, etc.)
- and my client usually visits local companies such as those in the manufacturing industry (personal reach out is important in local seo business)
- some of my client's clients are referred locally (recommendation from friends, colleagues)
At present, we are maintaining more than 15 local websites.
Regards,
Roy
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In the Title of Craigslist, put your city. Craigslist has a LOT of DA and Google puts the listings in the SERPS. Sometimes it only takes an 15 minutes for the crawl. Just do it once and see if it works.
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I'm in UK now.. Craigslist is TINY in the UK.. no 1 knows about it and there's no big alternative
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craigslist. that's my answer.
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Yeh, i will go around handing out the business cards
The only problem with that is, business cards are damn expensive in the UK..
£35 for 250 good quality business cards...
I've already used 250 in a week, i found that if i go to weddings or partys, go and give them to the people who are on your table (make conversation with them) or the people who are standing around the edge bored.. it gives them something to do whilst they're bored.
I got 5-6 phone calls from this and i only went to 3 events
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really the best thing you can do its go and hand business cards then you not "another one" that calling this places and offer a website, you have the advantage of local use it.
regard Skype, work with Voip company and have you freelancer register to this company for like $50 a month you will make unlimited calls.
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I found that it takes a LOT of phone calls and/or emails to get even a single result and people tend to feel frustrated by you calling them, i was thinking about hiring an online freelancer and giving them skype credit to call 1,000 businesses and see if i got any leads but then i thought to myself that 1,000 phone calls through skype would be around $500 and the freelancer would probably spend over 1,000 hours researching and calling...
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hi and welcome to this community
look to me that the problem you heaving it's that you try to target only your local community and it's great as nationwide level will be very hard to target with the competition and the sites that ranking up.
for local i found that the best way to do it it's:
go online look for restaurants, spa, nail salon and many other local bossiness and you will see many coming up in Google maps but in domain location you have Google.maps meaning they don't have a site or didn't claim this listing and here you go call this business , email or if are a good marketing place and you do have the benefit of being local just go there and hand this business cards.
you can also open yp.com and many other directories and again look for business without websites.
hope that help you
Mike
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