Online Marketing Tools for Local Businesses

Google Places

Your business must be here. Also a great reference for business owners. Spend some time reading their help links.
Google Places

Other Important Local Directories

Insider Pages
Merchant Circle
Yelp

Keyword Search Tool

Google Adwords – https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Reputation Management

Google Alerts
Social Mention
Actionly

Website SEO Gader

http://websitegrader.com/

Validate Your Website

Validate your HTML code so it is “spider” compliant. http://validator.w3.org/

Email Autoresponders

Aweber –
iContact

Website Analytics

Google Analytics

Social Media Tools
Hootsuite
Social Bakers
MarketMeSuite