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Happy Valentine’s Day! Feel the Search Engine Love

Belated Happy Valentine’s Day. Don’t you just love search engines? Sure, they can be challenging at times, but just like a human loved one, if you do the work to develop a good relationship with search engines the love you receive in return is well worth it.

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It’s a New Year! What Will SEO Look Like In 2015?

Google will continue to advance their local search capabilities and refine their local algorithm to try to achieve more relevant results and stop as much manipulation (like virtual offices) as possible. Google is also getting better and better at identifying real authority for their regular search results. What will they be looking for and how can you become authoritative?

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Google Shakes UP Local…And We’re Still Feeling the Aftershocks

Google Shakes UP Local…And We’re Still Feeling the Aftershocks

It’s been a few weeks since Google turned the local search world on its head and Google isn’t done yet. They appear to be enjoying themselves, changing things up every couple of days. I’ll tell you all about it in this month’s update.

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Google Updates Terms of Service and more…

I thought I’d try something new with this post and deliver the update in video.  If you’re not in a place where you can watch a video, I’ve also included the transcript below.  Let me know what you think. Transcript: Hi, I’m Kurt Steinbrueck, Director of Marketing Services with OurChurch.Com.  I’m here with the monthly […]

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Bing Changes Search As We Know It!

Bing Changes Search As We Know It!

Bing has announced that they are revamping Bing search with, as they are claiming, the most significant change to Bing since they launched. Including Social In Search: As you are probably aware, a few years ago Bing teamed up with Facebook and started working on ways to include social signals into Bing.  Bing’s first few […]

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Google+ Invades Google’s Search Results

Google has long been searching for a way to incorporate more social data into their search results.  In fact, aside from wanting to get in on the massive traffic Facebook has, one of Google’s main reasons for launching Google+ was to eventually be able to do what they have now done, incorporate the social data […]

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Christmas Time is Here! 5 Tips for Seasonal SEO

Christmas Time is Here! 5 Tips for Seasonal SEO

I knew Labor Day was just around the corner when I walked into Walmart and saw a big Christmas display (rolling eyes).  Yes, Christmas time is coming quickly and while it still irritates me a bit that we get Christmas displays in store months before Christmas, when it comes to SEO, you really need to […]

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Google’s +1 Now Shares Like The Facebook Share Button

Google’s +1 Now Shares Like The Facebook Share Button

Google has announced that the +1 button will now have the option to share in your Google+ stream.  You will still have the option to simply 1-up the page, but you will now have the added option to share the page as well. Up until now, Google’s +1 button was just a signal to Google […]

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