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More Reviews Equals More Visitors and Customers

More Reviews Equals More Visitors and Customers

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. […]

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Tips on Managing Your Online Reviews

Tips on Managing Your Online Reviews

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 […]

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Some Case Studies On How To Deal With Negative Comments

Some Case Studies On How To Deal With Negative Comments

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. […]

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Google Places Removes External Reviews

Google Places Removes External Reviews

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 […]

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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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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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