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Is your local listing up to date?  Does it have accurate info? Google is attempting to keep their local information more accurate.  This week Google announced that they will be using third party information (information from other “trusted” websites) and user information (Internet surfers who submit a change of info to Google) more quickly to […]

When it comes to local SEO, there are many factors that can effect local rankings.  Setting up listings with accurate information, using your address and phone number on your website, and getting citations are among the most important.  Getting positive reviews is another important factor in local rankings, but it’s a lot more than that. […]

Bing’s Local Business Portals already had a lot of features.  In addition to the traditional contact info, map, reviews, etc, they offered a mobile website, offers, photos, social connections and more.  But now Bing is testing some new features. Some of the new features Bing is testing include: Deals with digital loyalty cards: This is […]

Keyword research…check. Optimize my site…check. Get links…check. It would be nice if it were that simple. Unfortunately, there are a lot things you need to know about links and link building if you want to do really well. In fact, it’s possible that even though you’re getting links, it may not be doing you any […]

Link building is a integral part of any SEO project.  There are always keywords your site isn’t ranking well enough for and there are always competitors gunning for you for the keywords for which you are ranking well.  A good link building campaign is the solution to both those problems.  So, how does it work? What are […]

Local reviews are one of the most important elements of local online marketing.  Reviews effect your organizations rankings and (possibly more importantly) effect people’s opinions of your organization, possibly determining whether a new visitor will contact you or not. So, managing your online reviews is an important part of your local marketing.  In the past […]

One of the most important things you can do as a local organization is setup listings…lots and lots of listings.  Listings both provide more places for people to find you online and they can boost your search rankings.  Listings, however, often come with another thing…reviews, where any person can come along and leave a comment. […]

Google has removed the reviews from the Google Places listings which were being scraped from other review sites like Insiderpages.com, Judysbook.com, etc.  For now, at least, Google will only be displaying the reviews people have left on the actual Google Places listings.  Instead of showing the reviews from other sites, Google will have links after […]

As I mentioned in step 11, your keyword choice is one of the most important things you’ll do in the SEO process and can determine the outcome of your SEO campaign before you even start optimizing anything.  Now it’s time to pick the right keywords. In the first eleven steps we gathered lots of information and made […]

In last Wednesday’s article, “What Are The Most Important Local SEO Factors?“, I wrote about the most important Local SEO factors as described in a survey from David Mihm in which he asked 33 SEO professionals a series of questions about local SEO.  Those are the things to do, but there are also some things […]