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Local Marketing 2026: Google My Business, SEO, Social Media

Name: Local Marketing 2026: Google My Business, SEO, Social Media
Rating: 4.6 (469 reviews)

Professional local business marketing with a Google Business profile, local SEO, Google map search (Google My Business)

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Created byAlex Genadinik

Last updated 7/2026

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What you'll learn

#1 local marketing course on Udemy to promote your local business with most effective strategies and get clients
Master local SEO, and have your business show up in multiple places in Google's search result page
Stop wasting time and struggling with incorrectly chosen marketing strategies that aren't bringing clients
Create a Google Business profile and a Google Business account (formerly known as Google My Business profile)
Get personal help from the instructor if you have specific questions about your local business marketing
Local SEO: Have multiple listings of your business in Google's top-10 results
Leverage YouTube and other large websites to promote yourself locally
Use social media to promote your small business locally
Grow clients, revenue, and your whole business with a Google business listing
Create a highly converting website that gets lead to call you and become customers

Course content

24 sections • 147 lectures • 11h 25m total length

Watch this first: Let's ease into what we are going to do2:42
Google local search result template that we will dominate your competition5:24

Beginning to fill out your Google Business profile details3:05
Private address in your Google My Business account1:28
Filling out your Google My Business profile3:32
Three pack ranking signals3:20
Adding your first post to Google My Business2:00
Learn how to add posts, offers, and events to your Google My Business profile, with photos, dates, and call-to-action buttons, to promote locally and attract customers.
Town name in the Google business listing title1:17
Explore how adding the town name to your Google business listing title can improve local three-pack rankings, alongside service keywords like maid or cleaning service in Evanston.
How to get reviews for your Google Business listing1:49
Learn how to get reviews for your Google My Business listing by sending the review link to customers via WhatsApp or Facebook, and follow Google Terms of Service best practices.
Adding photos and videos to your Google Business profile2:20
Answering reviews can help rankings and customer engagement4:19
Adding your services and products0:56
Add products to your profile by filling the add product form with a URL, description, price, and photo, publish, and drive visitors to your sales page.
Social media and brand activity impacting your ranking3:53
Student case study example of local business growth success3:27
Analytics and what to do if you are not getting the calls3:40
Assess your Google business profile in the performance tab to diagnose low activity. Optimize with keywords to improve ranking, solicit reviews, update photos, and align your site to boost calls.
Running Google local ads and 3-pack ads10:24
Advanced case study of the map ranking signals4:54
Local SEO exercise0:57
Engage in a practical exercise to contrast local seo with general seo by listing four key differences, then compare your answers with mine in the next video.
Local SEO exercise - answer1:40
Compare local seo and general seo by highlighting smaller search volumes yet higher likelihood of becoming clients, near me search, and lighter competition, with map results and mobile emphasis.

Local SEO and website creation introduction1:02
Learn to set up a local business website with minimal costs, explore technologies and outsourcing development, and craft a highly converting site that drives the next step within a week.
Example of a perfect local business website with all high conversion elements4:23
This lecture showcases a local business website example, New York dental art, emphasizing a high-end layout with large contact prompts, reviews, before-and-after photos, and SEO-friendly interlinked pages.
How to easily find a domain name for your local small business4:49
In this section, I explain how to create a website for your local small business. In order to have a website, you need to choose a good domain name, so in this lecture, I explain how to find a good domain name for your business.
Introduction: How to create an SEO-optimized website from scratch5:40
Discover how to build an seo-optimized website from scratch using AI vibe coding with atoms.dev, including vibe seo and landing pages to rank on Google.
Creating a detailed prompt to get main details right on the first try6:08
Results in under 1 hour5:39
Preview a fully built site with a homepage, five category pages, and 40 topic pages, then edit titles, interlink pages, and publish to start gaining age in the Google algorithm.
Atoms pricing and what you get in each tier4:43
Explore atoms pricing: free tier with 15 daily credits (up to 25 per month) and a pro plan with 100 credits monthly, plus annual discounts using alex10.
Launching your website4:00
Launch your website by connecting your custom domain, configuring DNS records (A and TXT), and publishing through your hosting project with GoDaddy as the provider.
Showing the live Atoms website1:12
Show how to launch a live website, manage domains and SSL, fix a typo that affected connection, and submit the site to Google Search Console to assess health.
If you have an existing website: How to port or recreate entire websites4:02
Technical SEO without any coding6:52
15 item checklist for increasing website conversion and visitor engagement6:09

SEO section introduction4:05
Master seo by starting with keyword research to identify high-value, rankable keywords, then apply on-page seo across your site and listings, followed by off-page seo to boost ranking across platforms.
Google Keyword Research Tool9:51
Keyword research example & getting you more comfortable exploring SEO keywords6:37
Short tail keywords vs. long tail keywords7:59
Compare long tail and short tail keywords and learn how timing and intent influence profitability in local seo, with examples from dentists and cooking pans, and avoid vanity keywords.
Local business keyword research example to get many more keywords3:59
Present a practical local keyword research example for a dentist, covering neighborhood terms like Astoria and near me, service and emergency keywords, for website and Google My Business.
Free long-tail keyword research and ranking strategy tool I made for students4:22
Discover a free long-tail keyword research and ranking strategy tool for students that generates long-tail variations and provides actionable SEO strategies, meta titles, H1 headings, and internal linking plans.
Voice SEO - latest trend in SEO and how it impacts keyword research4:53
Explore voice SEO as a growing local search trend driven by natural language queries on mobile and smart home devices, and optimize to stay ahead.
Latest SEO research for top ranking factors - links are extremely important1:45

On-page SEO introduction6:52
Master on-page seo by placing keywords on your site after keyword research, focusing on serps, meta title and description tags, urls, and h1/h2 structure.
WordPress Yoast plugin9:38
Setting the title and description meta tags for your on-page SEO2:48
Learn to set your seo meta title and meta description by hand in html, whether you code from scratch or use any platform, and understand how to edit these tags.

What makes a good backlink for SEO4:03
Identify good backlinks by prioritizing relevant, authoritative sites and prominent placements, such as homepage links or high-visibility content placements, while avoiding distant, low-visibility pages; improve ranking in Google search.
Link-begging introduction. The brute-force approach that will never stop working4:50
Getting links from friends and industry contacts2:33
Reach out to friends on social media, then professional contacts and groups to earn backlinks from niche websites, using private messages and mutual favors.
How to promote your business on the radio2:21
How to rank (almost) any page in Google top 106:18

Disclaimer to this section in case you don't have a website1:14
Setting up your Google Search Console, formerly known as Webmaster Tools6:08
Learn to set up and verify ownership in google search console to track page rankings and perform seo tasks, using email-based upload or dns/text/cname verification, for free.
Creating your sitemap.xml4:22
Submitting new URLs and checking for page status and indexing4:00
What if your page doesn't get indexed by Google4:11
Where your pages are ranking and page/query performance3:42
Explore how to monitor page ranking performance in Google Search Console, tracking top queries and pages, impressions, and click-through rate, then boost rankings with content improvements and links.

Introduction to Google Analytics 43:34
Diving a little deeper into Google Analytics 42:44
Learn how ga4 uses event-based tracking rather than sessions, enabling customizable events, basic visits, custom traffic reports, predictive analytics, and data streams across apps and websites.
Setting up Google Analytics 44:45
Set up a fresh Google Analytics 4 property from scratch, configure account and data sharing, create a web stream, and install the tag to track page views and scrolls.
How To Connect GA4 To Your Website Data Stream9:28
Create a GA4 data stream for your website, note the measurement ID, and install the tag manually in the html head or via the WordPress Monster Insights plugin.
Demo of Google Analytics 4 for a Google website and custom reports9:53
Explore Google Analytics 4 with demo accounts, viewing real-time data from the Google Merchandise Store, tracking shopping cart conversions, and building custom reports with machine learning insights.
How to use the Google Search Console and Google Analytics together4:11

Requirements

Be excited to promote your local business in the most effective ways

Description

Most effective strategies to promote a local business! Stop wasting your time on strategies that don't work and begin getting clients!

* OVER 4,000 DELIGHTED STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN THIS LOCAL BUSINESS MARKETING COURSE

Made the course more actionable
More local SEO strategies with Google My Business
Added full section on business card marketing
Added full section on flier marketing

This course is full of strategies to promote a local business.

WHY I MADE THIS COURSE

Small business owners usually struggle with promoting their business. The first thing people usually think of for promotion are Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, fliers and business cards to promote their businesses. Those are fine, but there are so many other marketing strategies for local businesses that are more effective. This course shows you those much more effective strategies.

In addition to the course lectures, you get my help and advice! Students are able to start discussions and message me with private questions. I answer 99% of questions within 24 hours. I love helping students who take my courses and I look forward to helping you.

INSTRUCTOR BACKGROUND

I've been an entrepreneur for 20+ years, have coached 1,000+ entrepreneurs in person, taught 900,000+ students, impacted millions of entrepreneurs worldwide creating 6 and 7-figure businesses in the process, and I would love to help you.

BONUSES INCLUDED

* Lots of extra freebies, downloadable worksheets, and exercises to make the course more interactive and valuable

* My list of 50 business-success skills after you complete the course

* Be entered to get chosen for my student of the month status and have your business featured

RESPONSIVE AND CARING INSTRUCTOR: WORLD-CLASS STUDENT SUPPORT

If you have questions, know that I am here to help! I answer 99% of student questions within 24 hours. Many students tell me that other instructors don't respond. Well, I do because

1) I care about my students.

2) I feel a responsibility to make sure that students get their money's worth from the course.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION WHEN YOU FINISH THE COURSE

When you complete 100% of the videos in this local SEO course, you will be emailed a certificate of completion by Udemy so you can show it as proof of your expertise and that you have completed a certain number of hours of instruction in local SEO and local business marketing.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

The local SEO course comes with an unconditional, Udemy-backed, 30-day money-back guarantee. This is not just a guarantee, it's my personal promise to you that I will go out of my way to help you succeed with local marketing just like I've done for thousands of my other students.

Invest in your future. Enroll now.

Who this course is for:

Small business owners
People who need to promote locally

Local Marketing 2026: Google My Business, SEO, Social Media

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Course content

Welcome to your local marketing journey2 lectures • 8min

Google My Business Profile and the local 3-pack Google map rankings17 lectures • 53min

How to set up your local small business website12 lectures • 55min

First part of SEO: SEO introduction and keyword research8 lectures • 44min

Second part of SEO: On-page SEO3 lectures • 19min

Starting with creating backlinks for SEO (third part of SEO)2 lectures • 9min

Citations to start the process of ranking your site higher on Google search2 lectures • 10min

Off page SEO and link-building5 lectures • 20min

Webmaster tools to check search performance and indexing status6 lectures • 24min

Google Analytics 46 lectures • 35min

Requirements

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