{"id":504,"date":"2007-01-18T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/01\/18\/why-cant-i-find-local-businesses-and-restaurants-on-the-net\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:04:12","slug":"why-cant-i-find-local-businesses-and-restaurants-on-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/01\/18\/why-cant-i-find-local-businesses-and-restaurants-on-the-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t I find local businesses and restaurants on the net?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>I find it hard to believe that there are still a lot of businesses out there that don&#8217;t have a website.  I think everyone in business should have a website as it&#8217;s just another way of promoting your company. <\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* OddPlanet_300x250_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3290981241\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>  I hate it when I&#8217;m interested in going out to a restaurant and when I go to look them up on the internet to see if I&#8217;d like their menu or not I discover that they don&#8217;t have a website.  It just doesn&#8217;t make sense to me. Believe me, I&#8217;m trying to talk them into putting a website up, one business at a time. <\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>Now, for businesses that do have websites I&#8217;m sure that they could target their site traffic better by using a web promotion and marketing service such as servicewrap.net. I know that if I had a business to promote I would use the search engine submission by servicewrap.net as one of my major marketing plans.  They specialize in search engine marketing and I know when a site is promoted properly throughout the internet a site or a company should see a significant rise in the amount of visitors coming to the site.  An increase in visitors usually means an increase in business.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>Any business could use search engine marketing services or SEM as it&#8217;s often called.  Any company from plumbers to hair stylists or even my pet peeve &#8211; restaurants.   Marketing could be targeted to local directories to ensure that a large portion of the sites visitors are within the businesses local area.   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