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What Are The Most Important Local SEO Factors?

What Are The Most Important Local SEO Factors?

Local SEO is crucial for local businesses and organizations.  Local businesses who do not make the jump from off-line marketing to online marketing will suffer the consequences.  Churches and ministries who don’t are missing out.  So, what do you need to do to show up in the local search results? Local SEO is growing in importance […]

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DIY SEO #9: Determining Local Competition

DIY SEO #9: Determining Local Competition

Local search is becoming more and more prominent as time goes on.  For local businesses and organizations, this means you have to consider both regular SEO and local SEO as you market yourself. If you are a national / international organization, then you can sit this step out.  Feel free to go into the other […]

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Local Gets a Boost From Google Panda Update

Local Gets a Boost From Google Panda Update

Several weeks ago now Google updated it’s algorithm with what they are referring to as the “Panda” update (other’s have referred to it as the “farmer” update because of it’s impact on content farms).  With this update there have been a lot of big loosers (hubpages, ezinearticles, etc.) and some winners.  Surprisingly, one of those winners appears […]

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Get More Reviews With Incentives

One of the most important things local businesses and organizations can do is get positive reviews and ratings in local search engines.  Reviews have a big impact on people viewing your local listing and can be the difference between them deciding to buy your product or visit your church / school and them moving on […]

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Bing Takes Local To a New Level

Bing Takes Local To a New Level

Bing has just released a major upgrade to their local listings.  In the new Bing Business Portal, Bing is offering several new features beyond the standard local listing that can help your local organization. Some New Bing Business Portal Features: Fields for Twitter and Facebook accounts (you won’t find this in Google Places) Logo upload […]

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Be Not Afraid: Research Shows Negative Reviews Can Be a Positive

One of the things I have the hardest time convincing local marketers of, be they churches, schools or businesses, is the value of online reviews.  Quite frankly, most people fear reviews because they are afraid someone will post a negative review and that will be the end of their organization.  The world will end and […]

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The High Stakes of SEO for the Kingdom of God

For many Christians, search engine optimization (SEO) is something for businesses (if they’ve even heard of it).  It’s a way to make money.  Churches and other Christian ministries have no need for SEO.  But is that really true? Absolutely not. Related PostsIt’s a New Year! What Will SEO Look Like In 2015? June SEO Update: […]

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