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Online local marketing strategies 23.  Register with city websites and put your link. 24.  Register with local business directories and put a link back to your website. 25.  Guest blog in local community blogs. Find relevant blogs that you can write about your products. This is a great way to get quality links and gain exposure locally. 26.  Participate in local online forums where local issues are discussed and get a back link to your website 27.  Create Facebook fan page for your company and get fans through connecting local contacts. Then, ask your fans to link back to you on their Facebook profiles. 28.  Look for local Facebook fan pages. Be a fan, engage in discussions and put your link 29.  Create a Twitter account and invite your local contacts to follow you. Then, ask your followers to link back to you. 30.  Create a LinkedIn account and join local business groups in or create one yourself and participate in discussions leaving your link at the end. 31.  Register with local chamber of commerce website and put a link back on your member area. 32.  Participate in local blogs. Leave your comment and a link. 33.  Get interviewed by local bloggers and get a link back to your website. 34.  Request a link from your local Business partners’ websites. 35.  Find local college websites and participate in their blogs and leave your opinion and a link. 36.  Request a link from your local customers’ websites. 37.  Start a local activities blog and create content that can attract the community. People and businesses will most likely give you a link from their websites and blogs. 38.  Put Facebook and Twitter icons on your local activities blog. It will be easy for your visitors to share your content, and hence, give you a link back. 39.  Offer free downloadable reports that can interest the local community and request a link back if the user finds it useful. 40.  Register with local business associations and put a link on their sites. 41.  Prepare press releases with a link back to your website and give them to local Press release websites. 42.  Post your job openings on local job listing websites and get your link. 43.  Exchange links with local complementary businesses and websites. 44.  Ask questions and give answers on local Q&A sites if there are any. Don’t forget to put your link on each of your questions and answers. 45.  Rent pages from local authority websites. Promote your products or services and put a link back. 46.  Request a link from local product review websites. 47.  Join local businesses or interest groups on Google and Yahoo! Groups. Participate in local discussions. 48.  Submit your business profile with your link on it to local business profile websites. 49.  Prepare industry news articles putting your link on them and submit to local news sites. 50.  Ask for a link from your local webhosting company website and relevant local niche sites.