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Want to know whats happening in the world of Local SEO; but been too busy to stay up to date, don't worry David Mihm has done all the hard work and compiled a nice list of local seo reading from the last month. read more »
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Don't let the title put you off - this is an outstanding article on the difficulties associated with doing SEO consultancy for small businesses. read more »
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Great list of dofollow sites and blogs. Helpful for link building. read more »
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"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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Google continues to force more and more search categories to local search results. I realize ‘forcing’ may seem a bit strong, but Google’s recent addition of the ‘Looking for local results’ prompt has the net effect of pushing geographic searches to read more »
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Organic search traffic looks at more pages than cpc traffic, stays on the site almost 3 times as long and has a lower bounce rate than cpc traffic. Direct-to-site traffic views the highest number of pages, spends (by far) the longest time on the sit read more »
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With the rise of social media, we are also learning that Google values the diggs, tags or votes a site receives on social media sites. Aside from just the inbound links, traffic spikes and "netizen" awareness that social media sites can generate, th read more »
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"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn read more »
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I’m a lover of tracking - especially when it comes to SEO. Yes, we track changes in search engine (SE) rankings, inbound links, etc. but we also like to track referring search engine traffic and how a site is found. Why? Because this tells us if we’ read more »
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Once again, the dynamic due of Miguel Salcido (aka ‘searchjunkie ‘ on twitter) and Steven Peron (aka ‘imnotadoctor ‘ on twitter) impressed with empirical studies that demonstrated some key findings in regard to the use of nofollow tags, Google local read more »
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This is an often asked question, surprisingly. Webmaster forums keep discussing horror stories how their site traffic dropped after they created a sitemap and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. So here I am giving a list of frequently asked sit read more »
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Scott Allen writes,"One of the elements of site development and SEO that often gets overlooked is internal linking. When done right, you can kill two birds with one stone, and improve both search rankings and usability." read more »
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Some tier 2 engines to consider when starting a SEM campaign due to their lower CPC cost and high ROI read more »
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There is a very simple formula to rapidly boost the performance of any Google campaign. We have used this over and over and over again to keep improving our Google AdWords campaigns. If you follow these steps, I can guarantee you that you will soon read more »
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