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Google Local Business Ranking

24.01.2010 Local Internet Advertising

Google Local Business Listings are HOT for small business serving local markets.
Googlemaps are hot because of two things:
1. Customers seem to trust Googlemaps over sponsored listings,  perhaps over organic listings as well – fewer and fewer people, it seems, want to be “sold to”
2. It’s been reported that 84% of all searches are now by [...]

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Google Local Business Listings Ranking Improved

22.01.2010 local google advertising

Latest news from Frederick Web Promotions:

Google Local Business Listings aka Googlemaps ranking can be improved.
The algorithm Google employs to determine which company is ranked where in Google local is:

Different than the algorithm for the main body of search results (aka the organic search results
Slower to update
Easy to get in trouble with
Google’s “rules” for what [...]

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Yahoo Local Business Listings | DIY SEO

19.01.2010 Local Internet Advertising

Yahoo can provide traffic to your site via means other than Yahoo…Even though Google is the big Kaunas.
Fix your Yahoo Listing to fix your Google ranking
If you’ve listed your brick n mortar small business with Google Local (Googlemaps) you’re way, way ahead of the game. If you’ve done so at:

Yahoo Local
Bing Local
BOTW
Yelp
Insiderpages

You’re even farther ahead of the [...]

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Traditional Advertising No Longer Works

06.01.2010 local google advertising

A top listing in Google is what brings in revenue. Google IS the shopping center of the world, wake up and smell the coffee, if you’re not listed in the top 10 of Google search results… you simply do not exist. That said there are several places within a top ten search results page (serps, [...]

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Why You Need SEO and Not Advertising

02.01.2010 search engine optimization

Frederick Web Promotions offers Personalized Custom Solutions to the marketing of your website.
Traditional Advertising seeks to sell you what they have, not tailor it to your needs.
 
“If the only tool in your toolbox was a hammer, all of your problems would tend to look like nails from your perspective”
Customers are Changing… Google has offered them [...]

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Google Personalized Search Changing Traditional SEO Practices

27.12.2009 local google advertising

Check your rankings often?
If you’re not paying attention you’ll get a very false sense of security.
News Bulletin: Google Doesn’t Show Everybody The Same Results!
It shows you what it thinks you want to see… Google’s Personalized Search is a game changer.
Google’s (and Broadcast Television’s) Advertiser Supported Business Model
For some time now (several years) Google records what [...]

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Why Does SEO Cost So Much?

12.12.2009 local google advertising

I’m often asked why it costs so much for a webmaster to pay an SEO professional to improve a company website’s rank in Google. The often steep fees charged by competent SEO consultants can price some small businesses out of the market. The ROI or return on investment from increased sales or leads from a [...]

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Where do you compete against your competition?

08.12.2009 maryland search engine optimization

In advertising, you are competing with other companies. In Internet advertising you’re competing with other websites.
Where that competition occurs at is on Google’s search results pages.
There simply isn’t any other advertising real estate more important to your company than the 160 or so characters that Google gathers as what Google thinks your [...]

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Local Google Business Listing Reviews

02.09.2009 Googlebot

Ever wonder why your companies listing in Google does OK in the main body of Google’s search results page but is not in the top 10 of those pesky Google Local Business Listings?
Ultimately what you want is to be found in BOTH sets of listings, the net effect of which would be to drive home [...]

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Why Your Google Local Business Listing Ranks Poorly

14.08.2009 Dominate Google

Why do some Google Local Business Listings Rank and Yours Is Nowhere Near the Top?
Google is a relatively newcomer to the mass media advertising arena. It’s like in the early 60’s when television realized it held the power to make or break a corporation and smaller companies were priced out of the market.
Big Bucks Command [...]

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