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10 Twitter Accounts for Local Search Advice
May 17, 2013 • Kevin Webster
Free advice on ranking your website well for local search can be worth its weight in gold — if you get it from the right sources. Here are 10 Twitter accounts to keep up to date on how local search is working, and learn from ... Read More »
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10 Twitter Chats for Small Business Marketing
May 16, 2013 • Sig Ueland
Twitter chats are scheduled hashtag discussions that focus on specific topics. A chat can be a good place to ask questions, learn from experts, and develop new strategies for your business. Here is a list of chats to help online businesses grow. There are small business ... Read More »
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10 Essential Marketing Blogs
May 14, 2013 • Sig Ueland
If you’re involved with marketing a business, make sure you learn from the experts. Here a list of essential marketing blogs, featuring digital marketing, content marketing, social media marketing, small business marketing, and entrepreneurship. Some of the blogs focus on inspirational big ideas, while others focus ... Read More »
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Articles • Search Engines
PPC Ads: Analyzing the Bing Yahoo! Alliance
May 13, 2013 • Melissa Mackey
For the past three years, pay-per-click advertisers on Microsoft’s Bing have enjoyed distribution across both Bing and Yahoo! This is thanks to the Bing Yahoo! Search Alliance, which enables advertisers to use one ad platform for both search engines. While Google is still the king ... Read More »
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Articles • Social Media
Pinterest Tightens Contests, ‘Pin It to Win It’
May 10, 2013 • Tina Kelly
Pinterest has proven to be a valuable channel to promote companies, products, and services. It’s also a good environment to host a contest — prompting deeper engagement with customers or prospects — while also seeding Pinterest with content. Last month, Pinterest updated its contest guidelines, ... Read More »
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10 Tools for Testing Mobile Websites
May 9, 2013 • Kevin Webster
Having an effective local website includes ensuring mobile devices display your pages correctly. Many local searches are conducted on the go, and your web visitors need an effective presentation on their phones and tablets to understand what your business is all about. Here are 10 tools ... Read More »
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Articles • Social Media
5 Tips for Creating Quality Social Media Content
May 8, 2013 • Yasmin Bendror
The secret to a successful social media presence is generating original, high-quality content. Publishing content that gets widely shared on social media is good for business. Every time your content is Liked on Facebook, tweeted on Twitter, +1 on Google+, or shared on LinkedIn, it gets ... Read More »
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Local Businesses: How to Succeed on the Internet
May 7, 2013 • Kathleen Fealy
Most local businesses know they must utilize the Internet to succeed. Some businesses have a storefront, some are virtual, and many are a combination of brick and mortar and virtual. Some have a website and are refining their online marketing and others are just discovering ... Read More »
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Articles • Search Engines • Social Media
10 Press Release Tools
May 6, 2013 • Sig Ueland
A press release can get the word out about your business. There are many online tools to help you create and distribute a press release for little or no money. Here is a list of press release tools. There are tools to help you write a ... Read More »
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Articles • Search Engines
How to Make your Local Website More Findable
May 3, 2013 • Andy Curry
If you’re attempting to make your website findable on search engines, the keywords you use are critical to your success. Let’s say you are a dentist in Los Angeles practicing general dentistry, Invisalign teeth straightening, and dental implants. For those three services, the amount of keywords ... Read More »
