So you're a local or regional business looking for affordable local advertising solutions for your business. Well look no further, at web & above, we offer a local advertising program that gets your business found by prospects who are already searching for your business in the local and maps sections of GoogleT, Yahoo!T & BingT using a technique known as Search Engine Optimization.

web & above specializes in helping your business get found where today's customers are looking online. Fact: Forrester Research shows that 85% of adults now use search engines to look up information on local businesses rather than traditional sources. And more importantly, 75% of those consumers do business with the people on the front page of the search engine. The old adage, "location, location, location" is even more true on the internet.

This is a huge shift in consumer behavior. A shift that we can help you utilize to your benefit. There were nearly 7 Billion searches done in April 2009, half of which were consumers looking for local merchants. That means that if your business doesn't come up in the local searches of GoogleT, Yahoo!T & BingT - you won't be found.

Unlike other forms of advertising where you pay for placement, with the internet it's a first come, first served world. If one of your competitors were to tie up the key words for your type of business first, it's very hard to displace them in the future. So, being first with your business's key words and phrases is critical.

As we mentioned earlier, customers are shifting their behavior to local online searches. Shouldn't you be there first?

The image below shows how many people have typed in specific key words in the month of May 2009. This information is directly from Google. You can find out how many people search any keyword you'd like at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

You are spending money on pay-per-click and so are about 50 other competitors in your immediate area. To be fair to everyone Google rotates all of the 50 business from page #1 to page #4. So you're not always on the front page to get the best return and maximum local advertising exposure to your business.

This local advertising program is for unlimited clicks with your business, potentially on the first page of Google a majority of the time.

Give us a call at 310--801-1919 to start your local advertising campaign with a company that truly knows local search engine advertising.