The market list
One hundred and fifty four cities, one business in each
Mid sized American cities, chosen by a population rule rather than by where we happen to live. Big enough that a trade has several businesses worth ranking. Small enough that page one is still winnable.
How the list is drawn
We take the United States Census Bureau population estimates and keep every city between one hundred thousand and three hundred thousand people. That gives us two hundred and seventy six cities out of the three hundred and forty eight that clear a hundred thousand.
The ceiling matters more than the floor. In a city of a million, the businesses in any trade are already paying an agency every month and page one is expensive to take. In a city of a hundred and fifty thousand, most of them have never put their own service in the title of their own homepage. That is the gap we work in, and it closes as cities get bigger.
Of those two hundred and seventy six cities, one hundred and fifty four are their own search market. The other one hundred and twenty two sit close enough to a much larger neighbour that they mostly share its results, the way Glendale shares Phoenix. We still work those, but we check the results first, because promising one business exclusivity in a market it shares with a bigger city is a promise we could not keep.
Open now
The largest markets on the list, and nearly all of them are free.
One trade, one business, one city. Twenty four of the one hundred and fifty four shown here.
- Gilbert, AZ
- Anchorage, AK
- Madison, WI
- Reno, NV
- St. Louis, MO
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Buffalo, NY
- Lubbock, TX
- Laredo, TX
- Port St. Lucie, FL
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Toledo, OH
- Winston-Salem, NC
- Chesapeake, VA
- Boise, ID
- Richmond, VA
- Frisco, TX
- Cape Coral, FL
- McKinney, TX
- Huntsville, AL
- Spokane, WA
- Tacoma, WA
- Santa Clarita, CA
- Baton Rouge, LA
Your city is almost certainly on the list even if it is not shown. Ask and we will tell you the same day whether your trade in your city is still open.
Where they are
Forty states.
- TX 23
- CA 20
- FL 13
- IL 7
- AL 5
- CO 5
- CT 5
- GA 5
- MA 4
- NY 4
- TN 4
- UT 4
- AZ 3
- IA 3
- IN 3
- LA 3
Count of independent markets per state, largest sixteen. Texas, California and Florida carry the most cities in the band, though many of their entries sit inside the orbit of Dallas, Los Angeles or Miami and are checked before they are sold.
Why one city at a time is the whole business
We learn one trade properly. The words its buyers type, the way its pages usually fail, the directories that already hold page one for it. That research is expensive the first time and close to free every time after, because the same words work in every city with the city name swapped.
So the second client in a trade costs us a fraction of the first, and the hundredth costs almost nothing. That is why we can afford to do the work before being paid, and it is why we would rather have one client in a hundred cities than ten in one.
It also means the answer to "is my city open" is usually yes, and when it is no we say so the same day rather than selling you something else.