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What sets your local search listing apart from the rest of the stack? If you don’t have the answer or if you don’t rank at all in local search, Google 360 is a game changer. Consumers are constantly looking to see what sets your business apart. With so much information online, they're no longer si...
Google knows what it needs in order to find, crawl, and index your website. But do you know what it takes to play ball with Google? And really make it work for your business? Below are 13 signs your website is on the right track when it comes to getting found on the world’s largest search engine: 1....
Below is a no-nonsense questionnaire every business owner should take. Please take it sooner rather than later. Note: These questions are about your online marketing. The more questions you answer “Yes” to, the more likely it is that you’re adequately prepared for the online consumers of 2...
One Christmas Eve, three ghosts paid ol’ Ebenezer Scrooge a visit. They made him realize two things: 1) He’s been bad and 2) being good is much more rewarding. In so many words, that’s what Matt Cutts has been telling people who try to scrooge Google (i.e., get to the top of a search page une...
Given the virtually unlimited amount of space that Google allots its Gmail users, more and more people are treating their account as a sort of digital storage service. When they're not deleted, most photos, e-mails and documents are either archived or left in the inbox -- a practice which begs the q...
A comprehensive Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy has proven time and again to be a necessary foundation for any company marketing themselves on the Internet. Kudos if your business also participates in some form of social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn). However, now that...
If you want your website to be a competitive force on the Internet, you have to play by the rules -- Google's rules, that is. Below are the 4 biggest, most common and most dangerous mistakes plaguing today's websites. If you learn to recognize and avoid them, your website's SEO and user experience w...
According to Manta.com, a social networking site for small businesses, one-in-three small business owners spend three hours managing their social media accounts every week. 10% spend as much as 10 hours per week -- a healthy bit of time. But is it worth it? Because of the time commitment it requires...
Here's the thing about creating a successful website: There are many things you must do to make your website a success. Assuming that your idea of online success is increased site traffic and sales, these aforementioned things almost exclusively revolve around SEO. Like the pistons of a Corvette, yo...
A couple weeks ago, we published an article that sought to analyze the ethics of Internet marketing from a purely fundamental perspective. In a mere breath, we explained both black hat and white hat SEO as well as the projected outcome of each strategy. Of course, such a broad and complex topic can...
