Fremont, CA – January 31, 2011 – Jason McDonald, a leading SEO / Social Media consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area, is proud to announce the publication of his, "LOCAL SEARCH SUCCESS – Five free Internet marketing tips for tax professionals." This informative article outlines five important tips for tax professionals such as CPA’s or Enrolled Agents to improve on their SEO (Search Engine Optimization) vis-a-vis Google Places and Yelp.

"It’s almost tax time," explained Dr. McDonald. "Many people wait until the last minute, and what do they do then? They Google, they Yelp, they use online media to locate Enrolled Agents and CPA’s for tax help. So February is the time for tax professionals to get their SEO house in order – hence our five tips for Enrolled Agents, CPA’s, and others in the tax field to ‘reach out’ to customers via an SEO-friendly strategy for Yelp and/or Google Places."

More information on five free Internet marketing tips for tax professionals.

Overview: Five SEO Tips for Tax Professionals

Many businesses and consumers will soon sit down and begin to think taxes. Quite a few will be looking for a new enrolled agent, CPA, bookkeeper, or general tax service to help them. Perhaps they have opened a new business, or their taxes have become quite complex. Perhaps they have moved or are looking for a new provider. Whatever the reason, these potential customers often turn to Internet search, specifi cally local search via Google, Google Places and Yelp.

How can your business get listed in local search? How can you climb to the top? The PDF article outlines five key tips to help you succeed at leveraging free local search as a marketing tool.

ABOUT JASON MCDONALD

Dr. Jason McDonald is a recognized SEO consultant in search engine optimization, Internet marketing, and search marketing based in the San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley. Dr. McDonald received his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1992, and has worked at many hi-tech start up’s in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, Dr. McDonald is Senior Editor at eg3.com, a web portal and email service covering hi-tech embedded systems on the Internet, founded in 1994. Recently, Dr. McDonald has begun teaching marketing, market research and Internet marketing at Bay Area institutions such as AcademyX and DeVry University.

Dr. McDonald can be found on the Internet at https://www.jasonmcdonald.org, a website focused on search engine marketing, SEO, and other Internet marketing issues with in-depth free information on SEO, Page Tags, Google Analytics, Metrics, Link building, Free SEO Tools and more. He can also be contacted by telephone at +1-702-879-4771 or email, jasonmcdonald.blog@gmail.com.