Promoting Your Blog Locally

With the Internet, the world is your market. In many cases, this is what makes the Internet such a great marketing medium. But what if the market for your business is very local?

Say you have a landscaping business. You probably don't care about reaching a worldwide audience. After all, if your business is in Indiana, is some guy connecting to the Web in rural China going to be interested in your services?

Um, no!

Both Google and Yahoo have seen the need to address connecting consumers with these local markets more by offering local searching services, which I must say are very good.

If your local market makes up the focus of your business, and you maintain a blog (which you should), you'll want to add your blog to the www.blogsbycity.com directory. This unique directory (currently very unpopulated - which is to your advantage) let's people locate blogs based on the blogger's/blog's city of origin.

What a great idea for a blog directory! I suspect this will be a BIG hit eventually, once bloggers and people who read them discover its existence. 

Local blogs, both personal and business-related have the potential of offering very relevant information to each and every one of us. What could be more relevant to our lives than what's happening in our own community?

If you maintain a blog (whether focused locally or not), be sure to add it's URL to this fairly new directory.

As a result, expect to see some very local traffic to your site.