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Local Search Maps Optimization
86% of local searchers follow up with direct contact and 61% of those make a purchase. Maps Optimization connects you with local searchers, because they want to buy from you, if they can find you. We know you want new customers, but are you appearing where they’re searching? Maps Optimization will knock your local business [...]
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The Importance of Web Content
You’ve done all the right things to draw your target market to your online presence. You’ve optimized your website for Google Maps so you show up in location-based searches. You’ve dropped the right keywords in the right places to ensure a high ranking on organic search results. You’ve invested in Google AdWords or a similar [...]
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Local SEO – Top Seven 2010 Predictions
Local became a buzzword in 2009. The ubiquity of smart phones increased the demand for local information, and many startups were formed to service that need. With a new year upon us, here are our predictions for developments within the local SEO world in 2010. 8. Continued testing of business/financial models In many way, 2009 [...]
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How Do I Know I’ve Been Submitted?
Each month LocalMarketingLab.Com will send an email to the email address that you provide us, confirming that we have submitted your site(s) to the engines and directories during the prior calendar month. It is not uncommon, especially in today’s spam world, that for various reasons our email notifications to you may be blocked. This can [...]
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Why Does My Site Keep Changing Positions In The Engines?
Each time a search engine updates its database of web pages, the index shifts: they find new sites, they lose some sites, and site rankings change. If your site was dropped from the engine and you have not made major changes to it in the last month, they will more than likely pick it up [...]
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The Internet in Numbers (2009)
Royal Pingdom has compiled an awesome post of the year 2009’s most relevant internet data. We’re republishing some key statistics relevant to the search marketing industry for our readers, who in all honestly will find some of these numbers absolutely mind boggling. Websites 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009. 47 [...]