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Patience Is A Virtue, But If You Don’t Have It, Use Google’s Popular Times
As a naturally impatient person, I struggle with the following: people who take forever to text me back, traffic, and long lines. Thankfully, Google Search’s newest feature called Popular Times lets impatient people like myself know when a restaurant, business, or venue is busiest so we can avoid rush hour. …
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Hello Bing, Goodbye Yahoo Local: Moz Local Makes Moves
Moz Local made some small changes to its reporting dashboard over the past week or so. These small layout differences indicted a large change in the capabilities of the tool. Only announced on August 18th (though acknowledging that updates slowly rolled out over the previous week), Moz has added City …
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Running With The Pack: Competing in Local Search Just Got Harder
Overnight on Aug. 6, Google updated search results for mobile and desktop searches from local seven-pack to a three-pack. This is not just in the United States; it seems to be worldwide and rolled out at one time. It’s really early to start dissecting this change, but I’m not seeing …
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Reconstruct the SEO Strategy of Your Medical Practice
A referral by a physician used to be the most common way people chose health care specialists. However, now patients are turning to Google and other search engines for health information and to select a physician. In fact, 62 percent of smartphone owners used their phone to search for information …
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More Locations, More Problems? Optimize Your Franchise SEO—Part 2
In part two of this two-part series about how to successfully optimize your franchise SEO, you will find three more winning strategies and steps for multi-location or franchise SEO. It’s All About Location The effort to have each location found in its own market is often perceived as the most challenging …
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A Family Affair: Teaching Mom a Thing or Two About SEO
Here at Search Influence, I have had the opportunity to work with a diverse group of clients—business owners from all kinds of different industries. But the best thing about coming to work every day? I have the privilege of working with a very special client: my mom. “So What Is …
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More Locations, More Problems? Optimize Your Franchise SEO—Part 1
Do you ever feel like your efforts to market your business with more than one location are ineffective? Do you live with the constant doubt about whether or not you did as much for one location as you did for another, or if your franchisees are doing something counterproductive that …
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Googleplasty: How to Reshape Your Search Results (Part 2)
As more businesses begin to take efforts to improve their online presence, standing out in search results of highly competitive markets and areas becomes even more difficult—and nowhere is this perhaps more true than in the cosmetic medicine industry. In order to reshape your search results through the art of …
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Nix the Wix SEO Challenge: Tips & Tricks
Although Wix sites have been rising in prominence over the past few years, many question whether websites created through the cloud-based Web development platform are ideal for search engine optimization. Wix uses an HTML5 drag n’ drop website-building platform to provide users a simplistic website-building experience. Although Wix prides itself …
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Googleplasty: How to Reshape Your Search Results (Part 1)
As businesses grow more in touch with their online presence, it becomes more and more challenging to stand out in the search results of highly competitive markets and areas—and nowhere is this perhaps more true than in the cosmetic medicine industry. First things first, let’s make sure we’re on the …
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