TweetThis is a quick but powerful post for those of us that want to bring in customers from our local geographic area.

If your tiny business is aimed at getting local customers – you will need to let Google (and the others) know that.

How do you let Google know that you are a local business? You start by building a Local Business Center here — think Yellow Pages except free.  Then build a local listing on Yahoo and Bing here and here.

After that, as time (and in some cases money) allows, build profiles in all of the following places:

Build Local Profiles On:

Best Of The Web – Local – http://local.botw.org/
Superpages – https://my.superpages.com/spweb/products/business-listing
City Search – https://selfenroll.citysearch.com/
Info USA – http://dbupdate.infousa.com/dbupdate/startupdate
Yellow Pages – http://www.yellowpages.com/sp/advertise/
Insider Pages – http://www.insiderpages.com/advertiser/find_business
Localeze – http://webapp.localeze.com/bizreg/add.aspx
Yelp – http://www.yelp.com/
AlikeList – http://www.alikelist.com/registration?

Building these profiles will assist in getting better search engine rankings for terms that have a geographic target affixed to them such as:

‘accountant dallas tx’

OR

‘art studio 63129′