Help Ranking Local Business Sites

I'd suggest adding articles to these sites, that has unique content, topically related to the specific business--not keyword intensive--just informative. Interlink these articles within the site, with a couple links back to the Homepage. Most local businesses are not adding much content, beyond the HP, contact, about, etc. Adding content, puts you ahead of competition, fast.

Then, create some second tier sites, such as Squidoo lenses, or Tumblr blogs, or even a Hubpage related to this business (ex. if the business is a Tax Service, create a Hubpage on 7 common tax mistakes, and link somewhere in the hub, to your Tax Service site.

Keep the second tier links at least topically relevant, so you don't link an Aquarium site to a Tax Service, for example...unless the idea is that the Aquarium site saved money b.c. of the tax service...you get the idea.

You can also outsource comments on related blogs, or even have someone on Fiverr give you some Google + , StumbleUpon bookmarkings, etc.

That should do it in most non-competitive local markets.

Cheers!

I do not think you mentioned blog, but if you make a blog focusing on your keywords focusing on the area, you can get some very good traffic.

Create Unique content in your site first.
That build high quality backlinks pointing to that page URL.
Drip feed it daily...
do it till three months... and you will see result.

Yep, your list is fine. What helped me the most was finding cheap ways to outsource as much as I could. This also allowed me to work more consistently and keep at it for longer.

I agree that if you keep at it for 3 months, you'll begin seeing results. If you keep at it for 6 months, you'll see really impressive results (I'm around month 7 now for my most recent project). Although I have ranked a couple sites before, this is the first site where I've really worked on my overall sales funnel.

I also did geotargeted youtube videos which added a lot of punch to the mix. I have many geotargeted videos showing up in position 1 and they do get calls. Its not a lot per video, maybe 1-2 calls a month, and only 25% of the videos actually produce calls, but it DOES add up to a substantial volume of calls just from youtube.

I also do daily automated CL posting, but I won't get into that. Too much BH involved.

The only thing I don't like, the better my site ranks, the more calls I get, but the more paranoid I become about a new update. Not because my site has any obvious problems, I just don't trust google and how much I'm relying on it right now. So I plan on setting up 2 sites for every 1 niche I target, if anything for "insurance". If one site goes, I'll have a backup, and will always make sure I have 2 going at any given time.

-Red

Create blogs on Wordpress and blogger, search engine optimize them quickly and do informatic post related to your product and services.

Local SEO is all about citation. Submit your site to local citation portals and directory. That's the gist

You almost covered major points. Get with it & implement.

Some offline based advice:-

1)Do radio show
2)Use flyer method. one's the secret method of top dating website. May work.

Go to myblogguest.com and signup there, I do around 10 articles a week and got a client site to page 1 in a few weeks

A lot of BAD local SEO advice to say the least! If you follow some of these ideas, you're sure to get into trouble and frustrate your client.

Shoot me a PM and I'll let u know. I have lots of clients on 1st page for multiple KW.

Find a good SEO provider.

You need to focus on local factors + organic.