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Google Places Consultant

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/10/02

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Did you know that higher rankings with Google Places can not only drive tons of traffic to your site, but the kind of traffic that sometimes converts at a rate 75% higher than regular visitors?  So of course you want those higher rankings, but what do you have to [...]

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Google Places Ranking Requires Citations

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/09/26

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Google Places Ranking aka Google Local Business Listings When a prospective customer Google’s for a product or service and they’re looking for it in a specific local area, a Google Maps box is most often displayed above the “regular” search results. When searching from a smartphone, usually the local [...]

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What To Do About Negative Reviews on Google Places

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/08/02

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Negative Reviews on Online Review Sites Causing You Heartache? Links were currency in SEO for years… now it seems, Reviews Are Currency! The web has revolutionized a great deal since its advent. From simply being a store-house of information, it has transformed itself into an expansive platform that facilitates [...]

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Beware of Some Flat-Rate SEO Providers

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/07/27

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes SEO is not a flat-rate business. The time and effort necessary to make a business rank and sell will vary greatly from company to company. Factors such as location, category, market direction, branding, niche, demand, popularity, and strengths and weaknesses all play a role in how challenging it will [...]

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How To Leave A Google Places Review

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/05/05

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes How to leave a glowing review of the quality services provided by Commercial Building Maintenance LLC on Google: step one: you must have a gmail account  AND a Google account. (it is possible to have one but not the other) If you don’t already have a gmail account, please [...]

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Advertising is Dead… Google Killed It

by David Bruce Jr on 2010/01/15

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Local Business Listings Google Local Business Listings, Bing Local Business Listings, Yahoo Local Business Listings For 2010 and beyond they are the Single Most Important Source of Revenue a Small Business Can Hope For. Not TV advertising Not Yellow pages listings Not Newspaper Ad spots Not Newspaper Classified Ads [...]

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