Local website marketing

[Texasholly]

I have a geographic-specific website for moms and am trying to find new and different ways of marketing to/finding local moms. Plus I am working to make sure my site pops up with local searches.

Any suggestions are helpful...

The website is for North Texas moms in the DFW area - www.burbmom.net

[Pittsburgh SEO Marketing]

Hi Texas Holly,

WOW, your blog is awesome. I wish I had your eye for positioning and color.

1) Title this page - http://burbmom.net/tag/double-oak/sitemap - are you using XML site map, too?

2) Add target="_blank" and rel="nofollow" to any links that you do not intend to share SE exposure with. So not your client's links, but ones like the links at the bottom of your page that lead to wordpress, log in, brian gardener and the revolution theme source. No need to let them suck your rankings. You should add a link to your blog as the first link in that line up - either before or somewhere near the Copyright © 2008 · All Rights Reserved.

3) There is an excellent SEO all in one plugin for Wordpress that will permit you to get more targeted with page titles and you would also want to consider using the primary region(s) in the blog title as well. For example, http://burbmom.net/new-program-takes-local-school-worldwide/ - post title could include Local Argyle School. BTW - that SEO plugin overrides where you would like - just leave it blank to keep the titles at default.

4) You could start adding one or two cities in the alt tags. BTW - this image has no alt at all: http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq297/shaunacallaghan2/connect.jpg - this image says photobucket: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p202/redray19/mouthwateringbutto...

5) You could start a deep linking process to the regional tags. Links from geo relative sites - make some links say Burb Mom and link in with city and keywords.

6) Add RSS to any Ning profile that you can.

There's lots that you can do. This is a start.

[Texasholly]

Thanks SO much.

I have added the Wordpress SEO plug in. It is amazingly easy compared to my other blogger blog where I have been chipping away at all that stuff one by one! I am currently using the Wordpress site map. Do you think I need something more than that?

When you talk about the plugin overriding...does that mean that for instance, it would change the word "local" to "Argyle", etc?

I have been trying to add geographic terms to all my images.

We are rolling out a sister site this week from a nearby county which will make it easier to link somethings back and forth and infiltrate the market...in a nice infitrating way...

If you don't mind me picking your brain a little about the 'no follow' stuff. Can I use that anywhere? what would you suggest. I want to get to the point that advertisers would pay for links (instead of paying for an article - we want the freedom to write about anything, but if they wanted their website or other information linked to the article they would pay a fee) does the 'no follow' stop the spiders completely? If we added the 'no follow' tags to all the non-paid directory entries would that help our page rank?

I have been playing with this on my mommyblog, June Cleaver Nirvana because the SEO information I got from researching says I have way too many outgoing links...over 400. I hate to get rid of my blogroll, but if I could reduce my outgoing exposure in other ways that would be helpful. I have about 20 ning profiles across the web with my June Cleaver Nirvana RSS. The burbmom.net site is just a few months old.

I am off to work on some of your ideas. I REALLY appreciate it. I have been reading all sorts of SEO books, but not many people want to sit down and talk SEO! hahaha. I love it and could spend the weekend chatting about it...fascinating!

[AffiliateMom]

That is a great idea. I write for mom owned businesses and I might try breaking down geographically eventually but right now it is just fun helping other moms I know and meeting new moms online. I will look at your blog, even though I am in Florida.

[AffiliateMom]

Nice site! I don't know if I'll ever get one that good, but I love the idea.