All of these suggestions are free to implement and will generate very high quality incoming links and a pretty healthy amount of traffic.
You can use your ActiveRain profile just fine with each of these items but you will likely generate the best results with your own Individual Blog. (If you don't have an Individual Blog yet click here to get one.)
Please note that pretty much all of the items below require that you have a free account with the applicable website.
1. Submit yourself to Google Local. Make sure to put in your blog or profile URL in the website entry form field.
2. Add your blog to Local.Yahoo.com.
4. Create a blog post for everyone of your listings and submit the URL to Google Base.
5. Create a blog post for everyone of your listings and submit the URL to Craigslist.
6. Add links to your website, ActiveRain profile, and your Individual blog, on your LinkedIn profile page. Your LinkedIn profile is second only to your ActiveRain profile in terms of Google Juice.
7. Add yourself to YellowPages.com. The search engines tap this database to populate their Local search results.
(The cow above looks very dominating; similar to the way you will look to your competitors if you implement these strategies. In case you were wondering, that is why I chose it as the picture for this post.)
Excellent blog; just had to be shared with my AR Family. I hope you agree!
I totally agree.... "great to know information". It's always nice to know some tips on how you can climb up the SEO ladder. Thanks!
Jay Hufnagel, Keller Williams Realty, Lake and Home Group, www.SayJayLakeandHome.com .
Mirela...this is a great quality post, and one of the main reasons I have remained so active in activerain...this type of blog is so meaningful for people like me who don't have a full time web-master to do all the little things that will boost your recognition out there in cyberspace. Thanks again for sharing the tool that work.
Mirela - This is an excellent blog and thank you so much for posting it. I had submitted my blog to a couple of the places mentioned but not all. I just finished adding it to the others. Have a great weekend!
... nice ! Great reblog, I'd missed it :o)
Thanks for sharing this Mirela!
I think if one did nothing but what you described, one would be ahead of the herd!
Great article. This is why I love the reblog feature - find posts you may have missed otherwise!
Good reblog - I hadn't seen this one. Picked up a few new tips. Thanks!
Hi Mirela- I'm sorry that I missed this the first time, but I'm bookmarking it for as soon as I'm back to my office. --Sara
Hi Mirela, this is an excellent post and extremely beneficial to me. I have marked you for "read it later", something that I learned on AR so I can go back and reference. Always learning.
Mirela,
Thanks missed the first go round so thanks for the reblog. I had everything but the yellowpages profile thanks.
Milerla..these were the greatest tips ..had me updated quite a fee links ..Thank you so much
HELPFULHANNAH
Just as I thought.....too many details for me to get it right the first time. I hope I don't cause an explosion while I am trying to figure this out. Thanks for the info.
Great info -- Just signed up for them all (some I already had) -- thanks for the info!!
JE
Good check list - Also make sure keywords and content are relevent
Bonner
This is being bookmarked! I've done some but need to get busy with the rest. THANKS!!
Holly Cow... you have great information! I just bloged tonight about Social Media and how much it takes to learn everything that I need to stay on top of. THANKS Mirela!
Great post - thanks so much for sharing!