Search Engine Optimising so that it comes up for my home town can someone help

Hi All,

I was wondering if you can give me some advice I live in Australia and are trying to target my home town as the keywords. How do I go about doing this ?

My website is www.n3rdism.com , there isn't alot of competition for the keywords so I'd like to capture that market.

 

You should start by trying to get as many local sites to add your url in their site. This should get you rolling.

And of course optimize for the name of your city by adding text with the city in your site whereever you can, and in your meta tag.

Last but not yeast look for any local forums or directorys. Submit to the directorys and add your url as the siggy.

 

Your going to find it very difficult with a full flash website, and no .com.au

On-page all you can do with your site in it's current form is add the towns name to the Meta. Don't take this the wrong way, but that's a shocking site to have and offer SEO services.

Off-page, do what Gravetzt said and also get backlinks with your towns name as anchor text.

I'd honestly rebuild the whole site, or at minimum make some plain text HTML pages and fill them with related articles.

 

Here are a couple tips:

1) Add your town's name into the title of each page on your site
2) Put the town's name somewhere in the content on each page, preferably in Bold or Header tags
3) Create links from all your subpages to your home page, using the town's name in some way in the anchor text
4) Use your town's name in the Description meta tag
5) Use your town's name in the Keywords meta tag
6) Get backlinks from local companies that have the town name in the Anchor text (make sure to keep your anchor text varied - don't use the same anchor text on all links)

That should be a good start. Good luck!