Okay, so now you've actually completed my entire course. And you're probably wondering at this point, if you decide to actually go in and type in your local business niche, whatever it is that you do, let's just say you're an electrician, you actually type into Google electrician in city, and maybe you add in the state code, the abbreviation for the state you're in, and you're not showing up in that top three pack, then there's probably more things that you need to be doing. I would say, overall, if you've done all the basics, like you've gone and uploaded those photos, your business profile is 100%. You received the postcard from Google got things verified, maybe you've gone and gotten like 10 reviews, but you're still not in the in the in the very top three, or maybe you're in like number seven or number 10 or possibly even on a further back page.

Really, what I've done is I put together a much more in depth course it's over two and a half hours long. It's got 43 videos, walking you through everything that you need to know about getting your profile actually to boost up into that top three results. So what I've done here is I've provided you a free course that you currently just went through. This was my free course to offer you. But I do have this premium class here on Skillshare. And what I wanted to offer you is I'm going to give you a special link inside the class project.

If you look below, you'll see a class project inside of this course. And I'm going to have this link here you'll be able to get a free month of Skillshare premium and then every month after that, I believe it's just $10 if you decide to get an annual membership, it is a little bit cheaper. And I will receive $10 for every new signup. So any of you that decide to actually sign up and enroll in my Do It Yourself local SEO course, I'll receive $10 You know, I'm not asking for tons of money here. Obviously, I'm just looking to get people to come into this bigger course that's really going to help you rank higher and get more visibility with your Google My Business profile. I wanted to take a minute as well in this video to show you what's in this course what you can expect and just purely see how much value you're gonna get mean, you're obviously getting the first month free, you could actually watch this course, and then decide to opt out and, you know, cancel your extended membership.

But really, I mean, 10 bucks, you can't lose. If you're paying 10 bucks a month, you're gonna get access to this course, all my other courses on Skillshare, as well as all the other thousands of courses here on Skillshare. So it's a really, really good value. Just walking you through what's in this course, I do cover a lot of the things that I've mentioned already about Google My Business, but it's a very simplified version. So you've gotten the pretty much the in depth version of Google My Business. I talk about things like pricing, you know, hiring an SEO agency to do this work for you, versus actually doing it yourself.

I talked about building a website, the importance of building a website, and I give you references on how to go out there and actually build websites with say WordPress or Squarespace, which is a very simple platform for someone that's looking to do it themselves. Then I do walk you through a very basics on the Google My Business which we covered really in depth in this course. So You could probably skip this section. Then I talk about setting up other business pages such as Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, all the really important pages that are going to be important for getting you more presence out there on some of these other business sites. Then I walk you through creating actual business listings on other sites, which are referred to as citations kind of in the SEO world. I really dig deep into all of this, I have a 10 minute video on that.

And then I talked about all the different tools you can use to build those citations, how you can look at these things. I even give you a really cool tutorial and review on a tool called up study which you can use to track your progress. And if you decide to look at you know, a tool like this, you can track everything that you're doing and keep track of all the progress you make, using checklists and to do I then dive into optimizing your website and using different plugins and things that you can do. I also start talking about content writing and why that's important. Why you need to be writing regular blog posts, possibly Even once a week for your for your website, I also show you how you can outsource the article writing. If you're not someone that's interested in writing articles, I show you how you can go out there and actually get the articles written, you know, for a very, very low cost.

I also show you how you can optimize images on your website, how you can optimize the content that you're putting on your site. And then I even dive into some things like setting up add ons for your website. If you're using WordPress, you can automatically post to Facebook, Google Plus Twitter, LinkedIn, and some other social media sites. And then I do kind of go over some of the same things we've talked about in this course, such as reviews, why they're important, and I briefly touch upon getting backlinks and why that's also a very important metric that still counts today for getting rankings. And finally, I give you the opportunity that if you decide to reach out to me personally, I do have, you know, the capability to work with you one on one, obviously there is a fee associated with that, but I just wanted to make that you know, something that's apparent.

Obviously, if you go through This course and you decide to sign up for my local SEO course, you've gone through basically over three hours of training on how to get your business ranking higher on Google. If you're still stuck, maybe you're just feeling absolutely overwhelmed, you could reach out to me and I may be willing to do some consultation with you for a cost. So I really again, thank you for taking this course. And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out, I will absolutely do my best. And if you do decide to sign up for Skillshare premium, I definitely appreciate that as I do earn a little bit of a commission on it. The $10 is greatly appreciated for the time and effort that I put into all this and creating these classes.

So again, thank you, and I hope you found this course really useful.