Since this domain is very important to you, avoid any spammy link building tactics. You'll need higher quality links which are usually more expensive than others but less risky. If you can afford expensive link building services, contact Glen at viperchill.com. The guy knows his stuff.

Lol, attorney blasting links.

Anyways...

Make sure you always keep a buffer domain between those link blast & your money domain.

DO NOT BUY AUTOMATION SERVICES LIKE XRUMER, GSA unless you're absolutely sure of what you're doing.. which you're not by the looks of it.

Since you're looking to rank for your local terms, "Citations" should be among your top priorities. These include Yelp Pages, Google Places.. - Vital for local seo.

Moreover, apply this technique and try to replicate the top performing links of your page 1 competition i.e try and get the same links.
Most of the times, the best links for local sites are from website directories so they're easy to replicate - If they're helping them rank, they'll do the same for you.

Finally, you should consider PBN's links, but be very careful with footprints.

... there's a reason that xrumer 'services' are so cheap and that is that if the person actually knew what they were doing they would make substantially more money actually doing it than selling it.

Anyways, don't do it. It's a bad way to spend money these days.

Instead consider looking for someone with a lot of SEO experience, and I'm not talking about the average Joe advertising their services. To try find someone that actually makes a lot of money in the affiliate marketing world by using SEO as their traffic source. Then be prepared to spend a lot of money and make them a serious offer, contingent on your approval process.

If they agree, vet the hell out of them. Get examples of their work today, 6 month ago and 18 months ago. Figure out what they are doing and if it's the right thing for you. If it involves xRumer, Scrapebox, SENuke, Etc then they probably aren't worth what you initially offered.

Then crack open that check book one more time and put a 10lb plate on it to keep it open because if they are worth the time and effort you put into vet'ing them and you then hired them for the large upfront fee they agreed to (and any real SEO worth hiring is going to expect a good amount of money) - they are going to need a bankroll or operating capital most likely. Particularly if they are doing something that you will get to 'Keep' when they are done or you let them go.

Expect the whole process from talent seeking, to vet'ing, agreement, work initiation to serious results to take at least (a minimum) of 6-12 months.

.... or buy a xRumer blast for $5 on fiverr and pwn the web baby!

But just as a point of reference, I don't advertise work for hire (because I don't really do it or need to), but when I do get someone on my doorstep I won't even look at their project for less than $200/hr. Being a real SEO Specialist is every bit as professional and notable a career field as being an attorney, physician, or forensic CPA. As such, if you find someone willing to do the work inexpensively, there are going to be some corners cut - be that education, experience, quality or performance. Something somewhere is going to be lost.

Well, I gave you my piece.

After countless hours on your own and getting nowhere, what makes you think your going to be able to depend on opinions on some public forum?

I can spend 1000 hours reading books on liver transplants but won't be doing one on myself. You're essentially saying you want to. Cool. Good luck. Sorry you invested in the wrong people in past.

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SEO may just be something you enjoy.

I work for legal clients in the UK and we do lots of high quality content, infographcis surveys etc and whitehat works really well.

Law effects society and lots of people have opinions on it so it really lends itself to whitehat.

PM and I'll help you further.

use guests posts, articles, you need a Youtube channel for your Local SEO GP listing optimized videos, citations, directory submissions, a little onpage of website. just do quality and High PR submissions only and You are all set

Getting links will always be just part of the overall strategy..

1. Make sure your onsite SEO is solid.
2. Set up a Google My Business page.
3. Focus on citations....lots of citations.
4. Focus on content marketing. If you nail content marketing you will organically get backlinks.
5. Look into Google/Bing ads and Facebook ads.
6. Be patient for results