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Review Ranking Filters – Social Review Ranking
Local Internet Marketing seems to be about numbers, those pesky algorithms that have haunted up for over a decade now, with little answers. Let’s all welcome YELP to mysterious algorithm game. You see, YELP, in their own words is Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what’s great – […]
GOOGLE: Quality Links to your Site
NOTE: This is directly from Google’s Webmaster Blog and a very worthy read. A popular question on our Webmaster Help Forum is in regard to best practices for organic link building. There seems to be some confusion, especially among less experienced webmasters, on how to approach the topic. Different perspectives have been shared, and we […]
Learn Local Internet Marketing
Local Internet Marketing is merely marketing a business online. Most businesses, unless they begin online, are local. For example, a local bakery may service a small community and an airline may service an entire country, or a few countries. These businesses have borders. However, generally speaking when referencing local internet marketing, one considers a business […]
Local Marketing – 7 Tips to Local Online and Offline Marketing
1. Google Local Business Center Promotion Having your business found in the Google local business Center when prospects are using search engines to find businesses like yours is likely single most important source of traffic that you can convert to a desirable call to action such as picking up the phone call you to set […]
Local Business Opportunities
There are several opportunities to start a local business. First, let’s define a local business and exactly what types of opportunities this article discusses. A local business is one that services a community with borders. For example, a dry cleaning shop which services a 3 mile radius or an airline that services one country. There […]
Local Search Marketing – How and Where to Start
Local search marketing is very often misunderstood and confused with online marketing for a small or local business. This isn’t the case. For starters, search marketing is the process of deploying marketing strategies that help create online transparency and exposure, in turn helping increase a business’ website to show up in the search engines. This […]
Local Internet Marketing – 10 Tips to Market a Local Business Online
Marketing a local business, or small or medium sized business online isn’t as complicated or challenging as one might imagine. You might have been thinking about investing some money to promote your business online, have tried it and been stung or simply want to learn some techniques to apply yourself or build an agency offering […]
Local Business Center now Google Places
Announced on April 20th, 2010, Google has changed the name of their Local Business Center to Google places. This is merely a branding move in our opinion. We have seen evidence of Google expanding their search capabilities for local businesses since 2005 and the greatest changes happening in the last year. About year ago I […]
Important On-The-Page Triggers for Results with Local Businesses on Google
I have seen time and time again that a website’s rankings take a significant jump by changing some of more important on-the-page factors. This applies to both the organic results and the local business results. Organic Local businesses definitely need to be working towards ranking on both the organic listings and the local business results. […]