You may be wondering if your local yellow pages is going to keep bringing in new customers for you. Please listen up! Yellow pages are losing customers right and left,  and the experts claim that in less than 5 years they will no longer exist.

So what is a small business supposed to do now to advertise and market their business?

A simple answer would be: Your Website!

But most people know that just throwing up a website won’t attract any more business. Many businesses paid a lot of money for a pretty website, and were very disappointed that customers didn’t just start flocking to their front door.

There is an answer, and it includes your website or blog. But the competition is getting tougher all the time, and with the “new” local web marketing, you will either be one of the winners or you will end up closing your doors for good.

I don’t want to be an alarmist, but now is not the time to stick your head in the sand and “hope” everything turns out alright. Take action, and the first thing would be to find out what is available and what will be replacing the yellow pages.

I urge you to read a very interesting article about this very subject – “6 Business Killing Threats To Local Business.”

When you get to the site,  Local Web Science, go to the bottom of the page and click on “The Digital Virus – Part 1″. This will open your eyes to the threat to local business, but will also give you a very worthwhile insight into what we can do to help you be on the winning side.

Stay tuned for more insight into the plight of local business – and what you can do about it.

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That’s Right! Video is here to stay – for a long while. And if you are not yet using video to promote your website or blog, shame on you. What is holding you back?

There are many ways to “do” video. Use a simple Flip camera on a tripod. Use Power Point slides and then make a video of them using Jing, a free screen-capture video software. Another way is to use a webcam. The one I use, a Microsoft Life Cam is a fantastic webcam, offering many nice options.

Here are some resources for you to get the juices flowing to start doing video. You can submit them to YouTube and then use a free Firefox plugin called PixelPipe to syndicate your video to about 15 other video sites.

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You can use the free social networking and marketing tools on the Internet to increase web site traffic and take your business to the next level and double or triple the number of hits that you get on your website everyday. …

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Viral Video Marketing Your Way To Success

Viral video marketing is a super way to build your online brand, visibility, among a host of other online business benefits. Take some lessons from the big guys about how to use video marketing the right way, it’s about more than just …

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Here are some great tips about how to get more traffic to your blog or to your website. SEO or Search Engine Optimization takes on many forms.

There are on-site or internal SEO strategies, and there are off-site or external SEO strategies. We could write whole books on each one of these. You can start optimizing your blog or website with just a few minutes each day. Here are a few methods to get you going.

10 Must Use SEO Tips for WordPress | Job Hunter: Community and …

Sitemaps are a crucial element of any website’s SEO strategy and blogs are no exception. Creating a sitemap in WordPress is a painless process. Simply install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, set it up and you’re ready to go. …

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Link Building Solution For Your Website | SEO Complete Solution

When the search engine spiders basis your website, they chase the links to get from one webpage to another. It’s important to apperceive that search engines cannot chase ‘dynamic links’.

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Here’s some good SEO tips from YouTube:

5 SEO Website Tips – ECommerce Web Advice

www.gsinc.co.uk Gareth offers 5 website seo tips in this episode of ECommerce Rocks. Covers broken links, duplicate content, keyword stuffing and more. For more info visit www.gsinc.co.uk

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One of the quickest ways to get your business listed on Google is to register or sign your business up to Googles new Local Business Center. You get to list what you do, your top main keywords, your products, your hours, your location, website, email, and telephone number. You can also upload a number of photos. This is all free and is a great way to let your customers know how to find you – online.

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