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Local SEO: The Importance of Creating Business Profiles

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As a local business owner, if you’ve been in operation for more than 5 years, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve purchased an ad for your business in the local yellow pages at some point. That’s because up until 2006 or so, yellow pages advertisements were the way to reach local consumers. However, if you’ve [...]

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SEO & Social Media – Digg Adds No-Follow

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You Can’t Just Digg Your Way to the Top Anymore Digg announced today (9/2/09) that it is now applying the no-follow attribute to any links that are deemed untrustworthy, effectively ending the constant stream of SPAM that is posted to Digg daily.   While they did state that they are going to continue to allow link [...]

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Social Media for Brand Management

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How important is your online brand? It’s getting to be more important, and search engines are starting to place additional importance on the relevance of the content source.  Great content from well know brands is always going to rank well, so promoting your business through various mediums is going to be a big help in [...]

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Google’s Advice on Hiring an SEO Company

Search Engine Optimization

This article, from Google’s Webmaster blog, discusses some of the key things to look for when hiring an SEO company.   This is an endorsement for quality SEO providers, and points out some of the negatives to look for in a bad SEO firm. -Chris

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Google Releases SEO Beginners Guide

Search Engine Optimization

Google recently released an SEO starter guide on the webmaster central blog.  Good info from the source. Google’s SEO Starter Guide Makes you think that Google really DOES want you to SEO your site, don’t they.  Great idea, since this makes their job easier and puts more on the site owner to get themselves listed. -Chris

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