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Essential Venues for Small Business in 2006

Search engine marketing has displaced every traditional media with the exception of television in relevancy and importance in the eyes of ad-buyers. With much lower costs and a much greater reach,...

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Latest ComScore Research Shows Local Search on the Rise

Today ComScore announced their research findings on the size and growth of local search in the USA.According to their findings, 63 percent of U.S. Internet users conducted a local search in July. Local...

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Ask Goes Local

On Monday Ask launched a local search service that strongly competes with other existing services offered by the big 3.AskCity allows users to search for businesses, events, movies, and maps with...

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SEO Answers #12: "My .co.uk domain lost rankings when I added a .com… why?"

QUESTION: My client originally promoted a single .co.uk domain that he owned. Recently he purchased a .com and pointed that domain to his current website. Since this change we have noticed his “pages...

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Google Unveils Plus Box

More details are now available on selected searches as Google unveils “Plus Box”. Wherever you see the plus box icon “ ” clicking on it will provide you with additional information on the link. A...

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Increase Your Visibility in Local Search

This morning I came across a great article by Sujan Patel at Search Engine Journal called “5 Quick Ways to Optimize for Local Search“. I highly recommend reading this article!The following is a summary...

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Google Local Expands – Pushes Down Organic

Google local search has been integrated into the top of their results pages, for geographic specific searches, for some time now. However, Google recently made an adjustment expanding the number of...

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Ins and Outs of Local Search

As the population with internet access explodes, and more and more people are using search engines to find what they need, the usage of local search also continues to rise. For any sites servicing a...

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Top Posts on Search

Here are the top posts on Search from the old StepForth SEO Blog.Ins and Outs of Local Search‘Submission to local search based engines is becoming more and more important for any sites servicing a...

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Google Local – A Bit Confused

I found this rather interesting bug over at Google today.When doing a search for “Victoria BC Lawyer”, in the Local Business results I found that only one of the seven results were actually for law...

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Ins and Outs of Local Search

As the population with internet access explodes, and more and more people are using search engines to find what they need, the usage of local search also continues to rise. For any sites servicing a...

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Top Posts on Search

Here are the top posts on Search from the old StepForth SEO Blog. Ins and Outs of Local Search ‘Submission to local search based engines is becoming more and more important for any sites servicing a...

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Google Local – A Bit Confused

I found this rather interesting bug over at Google today. When doing a search for “Victoria BC Lawyer”, in the Local Business results I found that only one of the seven results were actually for law...

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SEO 101 Episode 361: Google’s Indexing Issues Demystified, Toutiao, Lots of...

Summary of SEO 101 Episode 361 This episode is again guest co-hosted by Scott Van Achte, Senior SEO for StepForth. Ross and Scott discuss a wide variety of content from Google’s explanation of recent...

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SEO 101 Episode 363: Forced Changes for Service Area Businesses, Mobile Local...

Summary of SEO 101 Episode 363 John and Ross dig into the latest news on Google’s efforts to force service area businesses (SABs) into specific region names. They also discuss why mobile versions of...

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SEO 101 Episode 364: Major Changes to Nofollow and Google Search Quality...

Summary of SEO 101 Episode 364 Google’s changes to the nofollow link attribute and quality rater guidelines caused a stir, while people in Dallas searching for local events were shocked by an...

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Maximize Your Google My Business Listing with New Features in 2019

Google has rolled out multiple updates this year including Google My Business new features for local businesses. The latest updates for Google My Business were officially announced on June 20....

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SEO 101 Episode 369: Bedlam Continues in Local SEO Results

Summary of SEO 101 Episode 369 Ross and guest co-host Scott Van Achte discuss the latest global search market share statistics, Christmas ads, when to act on bad links, Google Maps user profile SPAM...

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SEO 101 Episode 372: SEO Updates and 2019 in Review

Summary of SEO 101 Episode 372 In the first show of 2020, John and Ross answered some SEO questions, reviewed the local SEO changes throughout 2019, shared insights into enterprise SEO, and discussed...

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