02/22/2024
Three Low-Effort Ways to Get Backlinks For Your Local Business
1. Sponsor a local event or charity:
You can find these opportunities by using Google search operators. For example, if you google "kentucky inurl:sponsor" (without quotation marks), you'll find various businesses, events, and nonprofits looking for sponsorship. Spend some time on their sites and see if they have sponsor pages that link out to their supporters.
Remember, when analyzing links on their sites, right-click the link and select "inspect." What you want to see is an href value that DOESN'T say "nofollow."
2. Join a local organization:
See if there are local organizations for people in your line of work. For example, if you're an HVAC contractor, a simple Google search for "kentucky HVAC Association" leads to tons of organizations you may be able to join.
Surf their sites and see if they build out member pages or have a page containing links to the contractors that belong to their organization. Of course, you'll want to research them to ensure they're legit.
3. Business directories:
This is probably the easiest option, and there are tools (like Bright Local and SemRush) that do almost all of the work for you. The catch here is a.) these aren't the most valuable links, and b.) you need to ensure the name, address, phone number, and business hour details are the same across all your directory listings and Google Business Profile.