Archive for August, 2010

Local Citation Finder: Must-Have SEO Tool

Filed in Featured, Local Search, SEO & Web Tools by Matt McGee on August 9, 2010 12 Comments
Local Citation Finder: Must-Have SEO Tool

One of the most common tactics in link building is to look for sites that link to your competitors and try to get the same sites to link to you. The effectiveness of this varies from site to site and industry to industry, but it’s one of the things you do early on when building […]

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Google has a new Small Business blog

Filed in Google by Matt McGee on August 5, 2010 4 Comments
Google has a new Small Business blog

Quick heads up for small business owners: Google has started a new Google Small Business blog today. You might want to keep an eye on it, especially since the company is so very heavily marketing towards SMBs. Note that this is not just another local/maps blog. The first blog post outlines what future content will […]

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Google Maps Reviews: Now a 2-Way Conversation

Filed in Featured, Google, Local Search by Matt McGee on August 4, 2010 6 Comments
Google Maps Reviews: Now a 2-Way Conversation

Nice move on Google’s part today to give local business owners a way to respond to reviews that users write on the business’ Place Page. That solves a pretty common frustration that I’ve heard from business owners over the years — namely, that reviewers can say whatever they want and the business owner doesn’t have […]

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