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September 29, 2009
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Small Business Guide to Tools that Help Your SEM There are plenty of tools that a small business can and should use to make their limited time most productive in online marketing. Some are free, some are paid, but all of them are worth the investment of time and money to learn to use. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2004
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Yahoo Bolsters Local Search Business Listings Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new content inclusion program. |
Search Engine Watch
March 2, 2009
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Local Search 101, Part 1 Are you looking to venture beyond the printed yellow pages? You should be. As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are turning to local search. |
Search Engine Watch
September 19, 2007
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8 Ways to Improve Your Local Search Results If you have not taken steps to ensure your business' online presence in local search results is complete and accurate, you're missing a big opportunity. |
Search Engine Watch
January 23, 2011
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SMB Must-Haves in 2011 Make sure you stay on top of Google Places, Facebook and Twitter, and monitoring and tracking this year. |
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July 7, 2009
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Google Puts Real Estate Listings on the Map Google is expanding its real estate listings and search functionality by allowing searchers to find property listings on Google Maps. |
Search Engine Watch
December 22, 2010
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12 Days of Business Listings For Holidays and the New Year How is your local business identity performing online? Twelve tips to help consumers find you this holiday season and in the New Year. |
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January 27, 2011
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Local Search: Your Address is the New Link A look at some of the changes local search results are bringing to SEO -- especially link building. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2008
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Universal Search Should Be a Plus Variety in the search results gives online marketers multiple opportunities to rank and gain new listing visibility. But how does the user feel? As new listing types begin appearing in results, we often lose sight of whether these listings are really helpful to the user. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2009
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My "Must Have" List of Directories Submitting yourself to directories that are directly related to your business is an important part of directory and linkbuilding research. |
Search Engine Watch
October 28, 2010
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Google Place Search: Location Information Just Became More Critical Google's new Place Search makes it more important than ever for business to implement a local search, online review, and SEO strategy to achieve prominent visibility in Google's results. |
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December 11, 2009
Gregg Stewart |
Focusing Your Message from National to Local, Part 1 How to develop a strategic plan that includes Web site management, paid, organic and mobile search, display ads, Internet yellow pages, local listing feeds, and user-generated content. |
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August 15, 2006
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Get Your Coupons on Google Maps Google today announced it will soon be displaying printable coupons for local businesses in its Google Maps search results and business listing pages. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2010
Jon Schepke |
5 Ways to Improve Your Local Search Marketing Strategy Don't lose out on a huge amount of potential business. Use these local search strategies. |
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October 25, 2010
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Organic Search Listings That Drive Clicks People scan search results quickly. Here's how to make your listing stand out and make searchers want to click on your site. |
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March 9, 2011
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Cooper Tire Hijacked 2300 Listings at Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages More glitches in local search listings hijack other businesses. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2005
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Meet the Local Search Engines Local search has been hot over the past year, with the major search engines jostling for eyeballs, offering new features for both searchers and advertisers alike. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2010
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Why You Should Combine Your PPC & SEO Strategies Here's how advertisers can develop a search strategy that effectively coordinates paid and organic listings. |
Search Engine Watch
December 12, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation Consumer usage of ratings and reviews continues to grow, as well as their importance to everyday local business information. Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the most effective ways to sell a product/service, and that's exactly what consumer reviews provide online. |
Search Engine Watch
April 7, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Don't Overlook Local Search Opportunities With local search, there are many free or low-cost opportunities for local advertisers to get found. How many businesses, both small and large, are taking advantage of local SEO? |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2003
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New Developments In Local Search: Part 1, Moves By Overture Local searching on web-wide search engines can be disappointing. New moves by some major players may improve this. This first of a three-part series looks at local search listings that Overture is testing. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2010
Jeff Beard |
Who's the Best Authority to Own and Manage Business Listings? More consumers are searching on various platforms for local products and services. Here's how you can improve your SERP visibility and guard against inaccurate or inconsistent info on local search sites. |
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December 7, 2009
Liana Evans |
Local Small Businesses and Social Media Marketing It's more important than ever for small businesses to become active in social media communities in some aspect. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Local Officially Launches After just two months in testing, Yahoo has pushed its local search out of beta and is giving the service prominent exposure on the Yahoo home page. |
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May 2008
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Close to Home Make the most of local search - and watch your sales soar. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2010
Frank Watson |
Top 10 Local Search Insights for the Moment The local search marketing game is changing fast, driven by Google Places, mobile, maps, Twitter, Yelp, Foursquare and more. Here's a look at 10 recent developments in local you need to be aware of. |
Search Engine Watch
March 27, 2011
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Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 2 A step-by-step guide to help you better understand how to enter/edit the information for your Places page and send good SEO signals to Google to improve your rankings. |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
Search Engine Watch
November 20, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 5: Citysearch Brings Local To Searchers & Merchants Citysearch has long offered local content to searchers. But the company has made new moves to bring local merchants into the world of search advertising by introducing a cost-per-lead program. |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo Local listings. |
Search Engine Watch
June 21, 2010
Josh McCoy |
What Google Thinks of Your Site Paying attention to your site's Sitelinks, hierarchical listings, and internal link listings in Google SERPs are great ways to see how Google understands your site. |
Search Engine Watch
March 8, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A New F-Word for Google Search Results A new study has added tangible evidence to the widely held view that top-ranking search results get the most attention from users, and that lower-ranking results are all but invisible to most people. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2011
Dave Davies |
Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 1 The basics of a Google Places: how to properly set up a listing and some of the principles behind why this is important. |
Search Engine Watch
June 28, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Launches Local Match Listings Program Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward those with a local interest. |
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March 31, 2009
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MySpace Goes Local With Citysearch Deal MySpace rolling out commercial hubs to promote local businesses through social discovery. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2011
Jon Schepke |
Ratings & Reviews: 5 Strategies for Local Businesses Ratings and reviews are essential to local businesses. They help by differentiating products and services, improving search engine rankings, and driving free web traffic. |
CRM
August 1, 2009
Jessica Tsai |
X Marks the Spot Consumers are looking for you on search engines - but are you there to be found? |
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June 2, 2009
David Needle |
Google's New Dashboard Offers Business Insight Local Business Center now features a dashboard that tracks traffic to your site. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2011
Josh McCoy |
SEO Factors for 2011 As we begin the New Year, many SEOs have their eyes set on search engine ranking factors. Here are a few areas you should pay attention to - because the engines are already sending subliminal messages. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Amanda Kooser |
Local Time Discover the benefits of local online advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
October 20, 2009
Eric Enge |
How to Be Proactive About Reputation Management Tips for protecting your company's name in the SERPs from people who have something negative to say about your brand. |
Search Engine Watch
October 21, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 2: Google & Mobilemaps Bring Back Geosearching How Google and Mobilemaps are making it possible to search the web yet filter results to a local level |
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Hard to Find Parts View a listing of hard-to-find food-machinery parts here. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Expands Paid Placement Listings Yahoo is now carrying paid placement listings on its search results pages, rather than just within its category pages, through a deal cut with Overture (the former GoTo) last month... |
