Auto Repair Marketing & Planning

1. “Buddy Up”  With Local Sites & Directories
One of the best things you can do for your business is get your website listed in local city and county oriented sites. Most every city has a chamber of commerce website, a city site and a county site. These sites usually have business directories. Get in on as many of these as you can. Most of the time it’s free and just involves you emailing the organization asking for a link. To find local sites, just go to Google and type in your city and state and then another search for county and state. You can also ask other surrounding city and county site owners for links in their sites. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

A  common question we always get is “how do get our site ranked in the top of Google?” This is actually not as hard as you may think or have been told. There is a lot of opinions on the matter and a lot of elements that come into play for site rankings. In this next series of blog posts, I going to give you some simple steps to utilize a few of the most proven, and effective tactics. One thing to note is that when marketing auto repair shops on the web, you’re not trying to rank #1 nationally for certain keywords, but rather locally. So, in reality your only competition is other area automotive shops. If you live in a smaller city, then it’s even easier. If someone tells you that you need to hire a professional SEO company to get your site ranked, don’t listen! You can do it yourself fairly easily! In this series of posts we will be covering:

• KEYWORDS
• GOGGLE’S 7 BOX (local search)
• SITE MAPS
• SITE UP-KEEP
• LINKING
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• DOMAIN NAMES
• OTHER MISC. TACTICS

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