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SEO Education and News
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Google Places iPhone app – Not convinced yet…
Yesterday, Google announced and released its vast (almost too vast) catalogue of data on the brand new Places app. Places can be a nightmare for anyone looking for specific businesses on the web, especially if you’re in SEO. The app is a fairly elegant solution to this problem. At first …
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Top 5 Search Marketing Bloggers You Should Be Stalking in 2011
The top 5 search marketing bloggers you should be following if you want to better understand SEO, PPC, and SMM in 2011
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The Effect of Google Instant on Long Tail Search Behaviors
We have been watching some recent Google product changes over the last few months to monitor the effects on site traffic, and in November we see most websites moved along at a positive level with their organic search numbers. Nothing startling. Everything is on track. But for a significant few …
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Best of the Best of Canadian Citations – Canada Business Directory
The choice of local citation sources in Canada is sparse, especially when comparing the sheer amount available for use in America. Here at Search Influence, we figured we’d do our part and help out our neighbors to the north by doing a bit of research into the most valuable directories …
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Google Privacy Settlement is Just Strange
The other day, every Google Mail user got the same message in their inbox: Just kidding. This is the actual message: Google rarely contacts Gmail users via email, but we are making an exception to let you know that we’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz (http://buzz.google.com), …
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New Google Local Changes Everything
Google is rolling out a nationwide update that drastically changes the way prospective customers see you and your competitors through what Google calls “Place Search.” The new integrated results combine your organic and local rankings in a new Google algorithm intended to make finding businesses easier. Old results: New results: A …
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The Art of War for the SEO
Sun Tzu wrote the handbook for how to achieve success in war in the 6th century BCE, and nothing has taken its place since. He established rules of battle that are still used to this day. Why am I writing about the Art of War in a blog belonging to …
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Professional SEO: Are You Bringing the Right Traffic to Your Customers?
As I was watching college football on Saturday, a commercial for a new show on ABC grabbed my attention. Detroit 1-8-7 is new series on ABC about the homicide detectives in Detroit, one of the most violent cities in the U.S. On the surface this sounds like your typical dramatic …
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Google SEO Guide UPDATE!
Honestly, I never even knew the original Google SEO guide existed. If I did I would have blown away the boss during my interview with my vast knowledge of the SEO world. Well, it would have been a little out of date considering it was originally released in 2008. On …
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Old Google Keyword Tool Gone – Oh My!
New Google Keyword Tool vs. the Old Google Keyword Tool – that is the question, or at least it was before the legacy tool, that I kept bookmarked ever since Google started encouraging SEOs to use the “new” tool, suddenly disappeared this past Friday. We knew the day would come. …
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