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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

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

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...

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!

What he did was blackhat backlinking, he probably used some stupid software to do it or used software that is legitimate but in the wrong way.

A lot of companies use link building software, it's fantastic if you use it properly and efficently.

Instead of spending $400 on a 1 off SEO package, maybe do it yourself or watch some of the whiteboard fridays.

If not, i'd always be willing to help you sort your SEO out, i wouldn't ask for anything until i can show you some proof. That's how i work with anyone who's a client of mine.

Jamie's response is very useful. Make your profile page represent your company and make it easy for the person to then click through to your website from your google+ profile page.

I have had quite a bit of success with the rel=author tag. I have a new site I am creating and I have already had over 30 visits through search (not provided) this week. I am trying to use google+ as much as I can to interact with my site as I think it gives a real boost.

This may help you

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html