Rochester-based Magro International Monday launched a new search engine optimization package targeted to small and medium-sized businesses.

The program aims to help businesses appear higher up on the search engine results page when their local customers use a search engine to look for their product or service.

The Local Search Engine Optimization package includes six components for a one-time purchase of $599:

* Local Organic Search Engine Optimization Setup – meta tag creation for three pages of a Web site.

* Submission to Local Search Engine Directories & Data Providers.: Google Local, Yahoo Local, Windows Live Local, Ask City, InfoUSA, and Acxiom.

* Submission to Online Yellow Pages: Yellowpages.com, Superpages.com, Citysearch.com, Yelp, Localeze and Insiderpages.

* Social Media Profile Creation: Creation of a Facebook profile, a Twitter account, a Flickr account, a YouTube Account, a Linkedin profile page for the business owner and up to 3 of their employees.

* One hour of keyword research on how viable certain keywords will be to rank well online locally.

* A report and a do-it-yourself guide.

The entire package is available for immediate purchase at www.magrointernational.com/localseo.html.