A Local Marketing Opportunity is finally here without having to pay enormous fees on things that really don't help your business in the long run.
Local companies and businesses are always looking for ways to increase business. The first and most obvious choice is with local newspapers and/or fliers. Another way is to have a website and sharing and getting your website URL out to the community via pens or t-shirts. More increased traffic to your website could hopefully result in an increase in profits!!
Here's is the thing - when you search on google you will see 2 paid ads - that are from their adwords network. Underneith these ads are the natrual results of the search engine - in this example it is google. If you want to be the top of the natural results you ca not pay google. The only way to acheive this is to make your wesite the most relevant website according to them in relation to the search that is being searched for - their keyword that is linked to your business.
How to you determine which website is considered the most relevant for a search term? Simple -= relevant website content and your popularity on thie internet compared to your competition.Yes it would be easier to just pay google....but who has that sort of money - it is high way robbery. In the long run will cost you far more for that than to get the natural ratings.
So far optimizing your website to get that top Search Engine Rankings has not really caught on with local businesses. So these local companies are not ranked very hard because they are not trying to rank natural so their competition takes over. USWeb is what you need - they have all the right resources and tools you need to rank at hte top of the search engines - like google.