LocalRunner Northern Rivers region announces a brand new service for businesses located within the northern rivers region.
For a limited time LocalRunner's design team will provide a free web strategy assessment. We'll assess the needs of your business online including keyword research to determine the number of searches and the viability of your business' web presence.

Also for northern rivers residents we're announcing the provision of free blogging space for business or community organisations. Personal free blogs are available for anyone who wishes to write a blog about sustainable living, alternative energy, self sufficiency or other topics related to our clean green vision.

For information about free web strategy assessments please see our local business help page.

For free blog space please use our contact form and provide as much information as you can.

Our new Australian search is improving rapidly. As the database of local websites and local businesses listed within northern rivers business directory grows the relevance of the local search is improving by leaps and bounds.

Search results are monitored daily and LocalRunners Australian results are beginning to really impress.

The search facility intelligently blends local northern rivers results with the Australian metasearch results to provide a truly unique local search experience. User feedback has been very positive and indicates a real willingness for Aussie searchers to support a home-grown search solution.

LocalRunner invites all Aussies to come and try the search and give feedback. We're well aware that without support and a growing user base our efforts to produce Australia's best search engine solution will die a quiet death.

LocalRunner is a local search concept that's more about environmental protection than profits!
The enterprise is owned and run by Nimbin locals. Nimbin has long been the home of counter-culture in Australia. While Nimbin is probably best known (infamous!) for its annual mardi grass festival it is also home to a lot of forward thinking on the environmental front.

The LocalRunner vision is a string of online communities where local products and services can be sourced with ease. The environmental benefits of such a system are simply enormous...

Whatever your current belief on the climate change issue one thing is absolutely certain -- we will have to face up to the issue sooner or later. The population of planet Earth is growing rapidly. Unless new breakthroughs in energy production arrive soon we will hit the wall. It's that simple.

We cannot sit by and hope for these scientific breakthroughs. We need to attack climate change with more than just science. There has to be societal shift as well.

A quick example... Australians tend to drive everywhere and anywhere! As a nation we're in love with the motor car. And why not? We have big distances to travel. As anyone who lives in rural regional Australia knows public transport is non-existant. We're simply dependent on motor cars.

Some argue for the increase of public transport services. But public transport is inefficient for rural areas. The solution then is in the way we manage and use private transport.

...One potential solution is car pooling.

A part of LocalRunner's vision is to provide local online communities with the tools to enable local car pooling to work efficiently. The means to search for vehicles headed your direction at the right time of day. A way to share the information and make contact with like-minded community members to share the load, effectively helping both the environment and community members.

Fact is car pooling CAN work for rural regional areas. We just need the tools to implement the solution.
Localization - the strengthening of local communities is the antidote for globalization and the environmental disaster it's causing.

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LocalRunner the new australia search system provides "real" local classifieds at their northern rivers community portal and marketplace.

The internet is awash with junk free classifieds which are often set up just to grab email addresses. Few, if any real people see the ads. Indeed most of the free advertisements are placed by automated scripts!

LocalRunner northern rivers however is focused on providing worthwhile community services and growing the user base through local advertising campaigns in Lismore, Ballina, Tweed Heads, Byron Bay and Murwillumbah.

Users will notice that many of the categories within the free classifieds are unusual. The categories actually reflect the very local nature of the community portal. User feedback is encouraged to help develop a range of categories most suitable.

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LocalRunner's Northern Rivers regional business directory launches!

The bugs have been ironed out. The latest addition to the northern rivers community marketplace and portal is now live.

The free local business directory serving the northern rivers centres of Lismore, Ballina, Byron Bay, Casino, Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads, Kyogle and the smaller villages in between is now accepting free listings from business and community organisations.

Inclusion in the regional directory is a sure-fire free business advertising solution.

Rather than a simple database of businesses LocalRunner has opted to provide a search engine friendly single page listing for all business and community organisations. The pages are indexed and included in local search portal results and the major search engines.

Registration is quick and simple. Registrants are provided with an easy to follow guideline for creating an optimised web page business listing in just minutes.

If you've been looking for free advertising for your northern rivers business LocalRunner now has the solution.

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