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How To Promote Your Business In 2011 | Small Business Mavericks

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3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Here are some of the most effective strategies for promoting a business in 2011. Marketing today is a far cry different than it was in 1950, or 1980, or even in 2000.

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Google Linking Webmaster Tools And Google Analytics

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» Google Linking Webmaster Tools And Google Analytics There have been several significant improvements made to Google’s Webmaster Tools over this past week. One feature that has been added is the ability to link your Google Analytics data to your Webmaster Tools account.

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Google Goes Local With Local Search | Small Business Mavericks

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Google does that automatically for you based on your IP address, or based on your personalized settings if you are a user of Google’s personalized search features. I’m pretty certain, and I’m sure Frank would agree, that Google Places will be the main focus on Google’s local efforts far into the future.

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Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough?

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» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

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What is Good Engagement Rate?

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After sending his condolences to all former Vine and Google+ specialists, who became specialists in a trend, Matt then challenges marketers to focus more on becoming marketing generalists, and hone their skills of media literacy. He has authored: Internet Marketing an Hour a Day (Wiley/Sybex) 2011. Wired to be Wowed, 2014. Background.

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Android Marketing For Local Small Businesses | Small Business.

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I think the Google Latitude check-in offers service could grow more popular in the next year or two. Google seems to be paying a bit more attention to this local mobile marketing product, which it seemed to have abandoned as of last year. You’d be competing only with offers for 60 places. That’s not bad.

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Who's The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing?

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» Who’s The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing? Google claims Bing is copying its search results. I’d be curious to know if any of those signals and features include crawling Google’s search results. Evidently, Google thinks Bing could be doing something underhanded as well. That’s a bold claim.

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