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Google +1 and Small Business

Google +1 and Small Business

I’m not going to get into to much depth of what Google +1 is and how it works here. I’ll let Danny Sullivan, the editor-in-chief from Search Engine Land do that for you. Reading his article Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like Button


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Small Business Local Search Ranking Factors – Part 4

Small Business Local Search Ranking Factors – Part 4

This is the fourth installment of Small Business Local Search Ranking Factors. To catch up on previous posts please see the following parts: 1, 2, 3. In this post, I continue to simplify the details reported through David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors Survey project


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Dear Small Business Website, It’s Over

Dear Small Business Website, It’s Over

My heart was broken by a small business website recently. I thought I’d share the break up letter I wrote so that others can learn from my mistakes. Here it goes… Dear Small Business Website, I’m pretty upset that I have to do this through


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Google Panda Farmer Algorithm Update And Your Small Business

Google Panda Farmer Algorithm Update And Your Small Business

On February 24th 2011, Google launched an algorithmic update (Google Panda Farmer Algorithm Update) that claims to have influenced 12% of organic search results and cut the visitors of many websites by half. That’s incredibly significant. As per Matt Cutts, the head of spam at


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Your Small Business #1 Organic Google Rank Means Nothing

Your Small Business #1 Organic Google Rank Means Nothing

When speaking of search engine optimization (SEO) with small business, I am often amazed with how many of them have a #1 organic Google rank. It’s truly incredible. They are so excited when they discuss it and highly praise the absolutely gifted website developers for


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Social Media Search And Your Small Business – Go Hard Or Go Home

Social Media Search And Your Small Business – Go Hard Or Go Home

If you are a small business who isn’t actively involved in social media, you may wish to rethink your strategy. You may or may not be aware but both Google and Bing have been indexing and integrating social media into their search results. To put


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