I occasionally tweet about Perth, and these tweets get retweeted comparatively often. They also get included every now and then in Twitter "newspapers" like this one.

There are clearly a lot of people on Twitter interested in information related to their location. And not just at the city level; they tweet and retweet about their suburbs, too. Take this feed, which is devoted primarily to things happening in (or at least related to) Wanneroo.

This is a goldmine for any business person keen to service a particular geographical area. You can get your products and services well known through Twitter for free. As well as the direct geo-targeted traffic it can attract, remember that lots of tweeps are also bloggers and webmasters, so you're bound to get a few local backlinks as well.

The key is to just to keep cranking out geo-specific tweets, and be sure to use the hash tags with the locations you cite.
 


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Egor link
01/25/2011 04:54

Matt,

This site is pure GOLD. Thanks a lot for putting it together. This is the only place I could find with a decent list of Aussie site to create backlinks.

I have customer who's ranking in the US but not in AU. With this info we gonna dominate local search results.

Cheers mate!

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Matt link
01/26/2011 03:18

Thanks for the kind words. And I'm glad the site is useful to you.

Best regards,
Matt.

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Steve@Internet Lifestyle link
01/30/2011 08:34

Twitter can even go a lot further than that too.

Twitter Trends is getting smarter every day and can show you local twitter results to target what is hot in your area now! It also show popular tweeters for the area, trending topics and even links to popular local videos from the area. Lots of stuff to help a "local" writer.

I hunted down a link for Aus and one for Perth for ya

http://trendsmap.com/local/australia

http://trendsmap.com/local/au/perth

It also shows good #hashtags to link to to join the local "conversation" and greatly increase the chance that you get included in a bit.ly paper

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Matt link
02/01/2011 20:59

Thanks very much for this great info, Steve.

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02/12/2011 09:47

twitter and facebook are best traffic generators after google.

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05/19/2011 20:52

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