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Results Pagination in Google Places View
For a while now, Google has been showing “Related Places” AKA “The Competition in places view. While looking at the results for one of our clients who has recently opened a new office for his law practice in a New Orleans LA suburb I came across this. Clearly Google is …
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Small Business SEO Basics: Rank for Your Own Name!
Have you ever searched for a business by its own name and come up empty-handed? What about searching for its own name PLUS the city it’s located in and still no luck? It happens! Google definitely makes stupid choices at times, but most of the time this happens when we …
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CityGrid Media (an Orange Soda Investor) Scummy Lead Generation
CityGrid Media, who recently invested significantly in Orange Soda (an SEO/PPC firm out of Utah) has chosen to use the favored tactic of Nigerian princes and Offshore Link-Exchangers to drum up business for their new partner Orange Soda. I’m very surprised to see this kind of thing from a company …
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Matt McGee’s 7 Questions – How does Hall Piano stack up?
I posted a link to Matt McGee‘s 7 Questions Small Businesses Should Be Asking and got this question from one of our customers, Steve Kinchen at Hall Piano Company. It was a great excuse to do a little impromptu analysis. We may do a brief series of these. Steve Kinchen: …
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Foursquare Advertiser Survey
Search Influence is proud to be taking part in the first ever Foursquare Advertiser Survey with 3 other companies focused on local search and social media. Over the next 2 weeks, leading up to SMX Advanced, we will be polling businesses using Foursquares promotions tools to get the word out …
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Yelp Review Filter Explained (How do I spam that?)
I was looking for more contact info for Luther Lowe and noticed his tweet about a blog post explaining Yelp’s Review Filter. Luther does a good job of explaining the Yelp Review Filter and Yelp has commissioned a video which tries to explain it in a friendly way. The review …
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Secret of Successful E-Mail Newsletters
Many clients ask what the point of an e-mail newsletter is and how it can help them grow their business. Will people read it? Will it clog up potential customer inboxes? How much is it? There are several reasons I recommend e-mail newsletters. Not only do they provide free information, …
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Twitter for Local Business
This is the slide deck from my presentation at Local Search Summit “Using Facebook & Twitter to Drive Local Leads” this afternoon. We had a great crowd and I enjoyed the heck out of putting this slide show together. I was trying to position some real tactics in using Twitter …
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Use Twitter for Business? Tell Us About It
UPDATE: At the suggestion of Terri Troncale I want to invite submissions for non-profits as well. Please, please – fans, recommend your favorites! I’m really happy to have the businesses self-submit but I want to get rid of these iTunes cards 😀 Also, my original limitation on location was because …
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3 out of 5 Search Influence Employees Don’t Even Own a Print Phone Book
In conversation one day, I mentioned to Will that for what we charge some of our clients, I can put a real value on it when I compare it to yellow pages spending. And what I mean by that is for what a plastic surgeon or a dentist or a …
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