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Geographical Google Juice

by David Bruce Jr on 2012/04/22

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Geographical Google Juice or Local SEO Back links are exponentially more valuable (in the eyes of the ranking algorithm ) *IF the backlinks are coming in the form of social signals from your intended target market* For example, if your site sold travel packages to Italy, but all of [...]

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Blog Post Title Max Length

by David Bruce Jr on 2012/04/04

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes How long should the title to our blog posts be?     I just learned something while working on the Local SEO for http://www.hav-a-lawnandgarden.com/ The web developer and the local SEO (that’d be me) is  rebuilding the entire site in WordPress An issue came up the the length of [...]

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Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Google Friend Connect is going away for non bloggers, if you used GFC on a wordpress blog, your SOL, reportedly Blogger Blogs hosted on Google’s blog platform (aka blogspot blogs) will still have GFC, according to Google   If you had acted before 3/1/2012 you did have the option [...]

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Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Business has just caught on the the SEO value of Google+ Pages. Google+ like Facebook has both personal profiles and company pages. Most small businesses are aware their company needs a social media presence, most people have personal Facebook pages and assume it’s easy to create one for their [...]

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes SEO or search engine optimization is not the same as SEM or search engine Marketing.   SEO is the art of getting your website to rank #1 (or near the top) of Google search results. Local SEO is getting your company to rank in Google Local search results pages. [...]

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Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes Much has been written about Google’s Panda Update, sometimes called the Farmer Update, Danny Sullivan called it the Scraper Update. Panda is reportedly THE biggest leap in search technology since being granted a patent for PageRank in 2005 effectively making Google the dominant source of internet traffic for all company [...]

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