OK. Daniel posted at General Discussions an exact method to know all your rankings for the top 1000 cities in the US.

Fantastic. Go over there and look. I followed his instructions and now can see all my rankings. Totally helpful.

Major kudos to Daniel!

OK. Here’s my two dollars worth:

Look for a niche that is a little offbeat, not too mainstream, not too narrow either. But narrow is relative. 

I went through the entire posted list. I found lots of great niches. I think one winning formula is to pick a niche that’s a service business with an easily imagined small business person at the…[Read more]

That looks good Michelle, but you’re right; it’s a bit pricey for me right now. I guess I’ll plod along with the Local Leads Tool and after I’ve had some success, I can upgrade to something else.

Thanks Daniel,

Wow. That was totally helpful. Now I know how my site is doing (today).

I have 12 page ones, and another 138 on page 2. Cool.

Now I get to watch to see them climb!

Also, if anyone is interested in going deeper, I found a list of the top 5000 cities…[Read more]

Hi Cecelia,

Yes. I’m interested. I’ve got good rankings, although I’m still not sure how to get a detailed report. Need more sales. 

Email me at: biztoolz221@gmail.com

Phone: 612.799.2092

Thanks much. Looking forward to working together!

stay sunny,

Gregory

Oh, and I forgot to add, the reason I’m trying to build up a list of interested contacts is so that if my tenant stops paying rent, I have a list of other interested parties I can call right away first to replace them rather than starting the whole sales process all over again.

Thanks for starting this thread Vilardi.

So here is my sales method in a nutshell. Please keep in mind that this is theory, I haven’t yet found any first place rankings to sell, but this is how I plan to do it since I am a small operation.

1) Use a scraping tool to get Business Name, Phone Number and Website address for local businesses in…[Read more]

Yes I experienced the same thing but I think its because I used google.com as a test. They might have some kind of script that blocks it for security issues. When tried other urls it worked just fine. I suspect you did the same test…