While creating myself as a local expert for a couple of areas near Birmingham Michigan, I have been posting a lot on Localism and joining/posting on other sites like Topix, YourStreet and Associated Content. I ran across another website called Eventful. On this site, you can create a profile, back links to your website and/or blog and post events for your local market--and it has a page rank of 6.
I have been creating videos for a particular business in Rochester and created a venue on Eventful and have two posts attached to that business/venue - I also told this business about it so they can post there as well. I now network with businesses while providing something of value--a video and good placement in several high ranking sites. I just created a venue for Downtown Rochester Michigan. They are known as the City of Lights for Christmas and I posted the date of the official lighting and a link to the post about it on Localism.
When community sponsorships on Localism were introduced on ActiveRain, I started appreciating the vision of what it offers. Now I am seeing more and more sites that are taking things very local--and the opportunity to get out and talk to the local businesses in a powerful way to network. Another site I found is ShowMeLocal. It has page ranking - not as high as the others - but is another place to create a back link to your sites and promote your business.
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