Yes of course! Every business is entitled to a free listing with name, address and linked phone (for mobile friendliness) in all areas relevant to your services. 

Linku2 offer a couple of opportunities through our SMART Link Plans - These include upgraded listings in our comprehensive directory plus other options depending on the chosen Plan. They run for approx 5 weeks before each holiday period until the week after each holidays. The length is therefore determined by the length of the holidays!. Costs range from $95 pm to $195 per holidays.

SMART Marketing is a strategy developed and used by Linku2 to help businesses "Work Smarter, Not Harder". Based on the strategy of SMART goals our SMART Marketing strategy is - 

S - Specific - Linku2 Regional and Keyword sites reach specific target markets through focused and targeted marketing.
M - Measurable - Linku2 send out reports providing stats and click rates to identify market reach
A - Attainable - Linku2 SMART Plans offer a range of options for promotion within the marketing budget of all size businesses 
R - Relevant - Each Linku2 site is not only divided into over ?? business categories (Regional sites) or a full breakdown of New Zealand regions (Keyword sites) to ensure it is YOUR local market you are reaching but Features also provide information of interest and value for each specific target market
T - Time-based - Linku2 focus on delivering information to consumers relative to specific times and on a consistently regular basis

We all know one off marketing is hard, and often unlikely to reach your audience first time (unless you have an irresistible offer which doesn't dilute your business real value). This is because we live in a world full of noise. 

Did you realise it takes each person a minimum exposure to your brand of at least 27 times before they even notice you and these 27 times should be on different platforms! No wonder a one off ad results in little return! For best results you need regularity and consistency in your advertising and messages.

Linku2 use a combination of our online links and social media connections for your business promotion. Linku2 is also, unlike big corporations (eg Yellow, Neighbourly, etc),  run from within New Zealand communities "by locals, for locals" who understand and know the uniqueness and idiosyncrasies of their own community. 

Our locally based teams understand what your specific local audiences are looking for, while Linku2 work alongside you to understand your specific target market. We work with you to identify your specific buyer persona, then target these through our Plans, affordable for every size business, hence why they are SMART Plans! 

Linku2 main promotional tools are our localised and keyword websites. Fully optimised using a range of top SEO tools and fully schema optimised. Our advertiser pages (eg your pages on our site if you take Deluxe Plan or above) are also schema and keyword optimised to get you to the top in Google. 

Our comprehensive site search facility allows site visitors to search by areas as well as preferred keywords. Plus, of course, we are full optimised for mobile. We use Google Analytics tracking and Google Adwords to reflect your area "In the Moment"

Each Linku2 site also has a corresponding Facebook page and Group and Instagram plus we use other Linku2 social media tools for promotion including LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest. Each of these, whilst not always well used in NZ, however increase the opportunities for search rankings. 

Linku2 also belong to, and manage, a wide range of online and social media groups and services and use these to share your links and information. 

If your main target customers are within your local region isn't it is logical to advertise locally and targeted instead of diluting your precious dollars reaching a generic audience? Not only does Linku2 focus on defined areas, we also use Geo-marketing with Geo-targeting and Geo-location.

But local logic aside, by linking with Linku2 you are also helping to keep our local economy strong. By going local more job opportunities are created and you are helping boost your fellow services, hence our tagline Go Local, Grow Local ...

A very good question! As we all know the likes of Google, Facebook and the other major online services are often changing the goal posts on us all. 

To keep ahead we now run our sites through the most sophisticated web programmes available which are continuously being updated (sometimes almost daily) to allow us to stay on top of the game. 

On top of this we regularly keep up to date with changes and repeating programmes and courses to keep ahead.

It isn't easy and can take a lot of time which is why of course we are there to keep ahead for our clients so they can get on with working in and growing their own business and leave the background stuff to us! We also work alongside Gezzmedia, an Auckland based digital marketing agency.

Started in 2004 Sarah returned from living overseas and struggled to find services and activities for her 3 kids. Frustration formulated the need for a "local only one stop shop". Living on the Hibiscus Coast, north Auckland she started her first site "Hibiscuslink".

Always passionate about retaining the importance of being a "link", and in response to requests for similar services, not just on the Coast, Hibiscuslink rebranded as "Linku2" and The Linku2 Group was formed to support other local regions and keyword industries. 

A keen member of Rotary for over 13 years Sarah has always supported the community spirit and each Linku2 team member is required to live in their local region, and be passionate with a good understanding of their community. 

Linku2 support local community and non-profit services with discounted Plans and support. 

Our Purpose
To ignite a passion to support, strengthen, share, grow and enrich local communities

Our Vision
We connect local business to have a voice, be inspired, collaborate and grow within their local community

Our Values and Convictions
1. We are passionate about supporting our community and are strongly people and community focused
2. We value the importance of customer satisfaction
3. We encourage collaboration and support local sustainability
4. We embody the characteristics of trustworthiness, reliability, honesty and integrity
5. We offer openness and clarity in all our actions
6. We appreciate the uniqueness in every local opportunity
7. We uphold our value of social consciousness

Our Customer Aims
1. Clearly show the value we can offer local small businesses
2. Demonstrate our reach in the relevant local target markets
3. Assist our paying clients to affordably reach their target market
4. To be the first port of call within the local community

Our slogan
"Go Local, Grow Local ..."

Linku2 are different in a number of ways - 

1. We ensure all possible references to an advertiser links directly to their own web pages and not internally to support the advertiser and satisfy the end user needs NOT to increase our stats!
2. We offer opportunities for advertisers to be seen in a variety of formats, eg directory links, imagery adverts, links to blog posts, webinars, promotions, etc
3. We are able to offer one on one support to a business over an extended period of time. By having Plans running from the early build up of a holiday period through to after the tidy up is done we are able to ensure regular targeting and real time stats and reporting
4. We never display Google ads on our pages keeping them clean, fresh, less distracting and only promoting locals who in turn support us and our community services.
5. We work specifically with a business to establish their buyer persona (if they don't already have one)
6. We are always available directly to answer any questions or provide stats or information, no running around looking for contact details

Having been around for so many years Linku2 has seen challenges and hurdles of all kinds from growth away from local to a global focus in the mid 2000's, the GFC which again emphasised the importance of coming back to local, the rapid speeding of our lives and the abrupt halt to this by the unprecedented Covid-19 which again has brought the focus for us all of the importance of local. 

Over the years we have used 3 different web platforms for our sites with lots of experiments, trials, tribulations, successes and yes, failures, however resulting in a now well refined system and clear understanding of both who and what we are, and more importantly who and what our clients are and how we can help them. 

Keywords will never totally go out of fashion, they are the connector, the relationship between you and your prospects, established and indexed by the search engine. However people do search in different ways now. 

With the introduction of mobile friendliness, voice activation, API's, semantic searching and Google Voice Search, search engines have been moving more towards phrase searching and understanding the way we talk to a device when conducting a search. 

The art of keyword stuffing of years gone by virtually killed off the importance of keywords. However, our sophisticated Linku2 search system (built specifically for our sites) does work with keywords as well as key phrases as an additional internal search mechanism. 

We would never allow keyword stuffing (this would also affect our own SEO) but we do have a provision for clients to be found by using keywords of particular relevance to their services.