My suggestion is to have different websites for different location for a start. If not different pages for different locations.

Start with social bookmarking and try to catch up your local audience. Let them know about your activities. Also stick with this forum and make a tour here. You will know everything to start like a star in your business.

Hi.
Firstly try to attract your local audience by promoting your site to the different websites. You can do social bookmarking, directory listings.

First of all decide a way to promote your business, is it SEO or PPC

you can do this job easily by PPC but don't think it can be done easy with SEO, you need something more for this

Hope this blog post about local SEO will help you and your business..
http://www.premiumseosolutions.com.a...-optimization/
http://www.premiumseosolutions.com.a...eo-strategies/
http://www.premiumseosolutions.com.a...ocal-presence/

Good one! I think these tips may be jelpful for beginner.h

1) Create unique landing page (at least 1, I'd suggest a whole site section) for each location that you target.

2) Get links with good, but diverse anchor text. It is good if they include the location marker.

3) Create a KML sitemap and submit it via Webmaster Tools.

4) Mark up you location(s) on the website.

There is other stuff as well, of course, but these are the main points.

Cheers,
Nyagoslav
OptiLocal

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Here are the tips on how to rank high in local search engines:

* Domain Name - Your domain name must have the local extension of the local country. For example, if you want to target Malaysia customers, you should consider to use *.com.my extension, Australia is *.au, United Kingdom is .*uk.
* Web Hosting - Your website should be hosting in the local country or city, makes your website loads faster for your targeted customer.
* Website Content - You website content must used the language and grammar aspect for targeted country.
* Phone Number - Optionally, you can specify the local (regional specific) phone number in your website.
* Search Engine Optimization - Your website content should be tailored towards the region-country-city. You can do this as on page search engine optimization such as put it in title, keywords, and description meta tags, etc.
* Link building - Get your website listed in local directory, local search engine and link exchange with other website within the target location.
* Search Engine Settings - Use Google webmaster Tools to set your geographic location. You can do it by: Dashboard -> Tools -> Set geographic target. Then, select the country which has your most targeted customer..

Once all key point I mentioned above is done, your website should be fully optimized for local search engines.