I have a computer services business and want to get it optimized for local search engine advertising.  I read an article in this Months Edition of the "Entrepreneur" magazine and it talks about using the following sites.

1)  local.com
2)  reachlocal.com
3)  registerlocal.com
4)  truelocal.com
5)  Yellow Pages.com
6)  Citysearch.com
7)  Ask.com
  Merchantcircle.com

  I was looking for some additional advice or comments from people who have successful or unsuccessful experiences with some of these sites.  I have already registered with the Yahoo Local and Google Local Maps to get started.  I also advertise in craigslist and some of the other classified ads.

The biggest challenge I see happening is getting my site to come up as number 1 with the keywords "computer repair" to someone living in the same city as me.  I might have to use "Concord Computer Repair".  In any case if anyone has used local web site search optimization locally and its worked for you I would like to hear your story.  Look forward to any replies.  thanks in advance!

Scott
www.batestechgroup.com