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Link Building: Four Types of Backlinks to Pursue (And Three to Avoid)

Webbiquity SMM

Local directories and high-quality industry directories. Virtually all businesses can benefit from providing their company and contact details to the local versions of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, as well as online yellow pages and other similar directories. Low-quality general directories and “bad neighborhoods.”

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Are You Controlling Your Local Listings?

Small Business Mavericks

, but because some local directories are open source and anybody can change the information, even if they are mistaken. The way you go about taking charge depends on the process each directory has in place. Local Internet Marketing local local directories local listings local search' Yellowpages.com. Angie’s List.

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21 Sources For Blog Ideas

Small Business Mavericks

Your Facebook wall. Article directories – Which articles are most popular? Google or Yahoo! Q&A websites like Yahoo! Google Alerts. Your RSS aggregator – Do you subscribe to the most popular blogs in your niche? You should. Blog Catalog. Google Wonder Wheel. Google Trends. Twitter Trends.

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What is Robots.Txt?

BeingOptimist

Facebook 0. Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing follows the standard protocol of robots.txt to index or crawl webpages. In order to implement Robots.txt, it is uploaded in the root directory of a domain. In order to implement Robots.txt, it is uploaded in the root directory of a domain. Facebook 0.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

This is how you will turn your casual website or Facebook visitors into ongoing subscribers and fans. This is how you lead your casual website or Facebook visitor to take that call to action: click the link, sign up, register, tell a friend, become a fan! Make every person/client feel special. Trend #4 – Do Email Marketing!

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Offsite Content Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

That includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and several others. Directories – Not all directories are created equal. Places like Yahoo! You’ll get a bio and a link back to your website. Every good review of your business or products is another step closer to a sale.

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Web Presence Optimization, Reloaded

Webbiquity SMM

The second and third largest “search engines,&# based on volume of searches, aren’t search engines at all: YouTube and Facebook. From there, make sure that your presence is search-optimized on the “big four&# social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.