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Directory Submissions for Backlinks: Tips n’ Tricks to Get Some Love from Google

Harp Interactive

The more that relevant websites link to your website, the better Google likes you. Similarly, when a website links to your website, Google considers it a recommendation or a vote of confidence and increases your ranking. This latter (directory submissions) link building method is a painful and tedious process…best done manually!

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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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Google Goes Local With Local Search | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

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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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. Well, there are some big ones that are easy to remember, like these: Google. The way you go about taking charge depends on the process each directory has in place. Yellowpages.com.

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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Matt Cutts from Google explained that Google had done this “on purpose&#. Appealing Google sitelinks.

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100+ free USA Business Listing/Citation sites & Benefits of Local Listing

Social Media Marketing

Business Citations/listing means adding business detail like Name, Address, Phone number and web pages on local business directories. Yellow Page, White Pages, and Yext directory are a good example of business Citation. But for new business owners, sometimes it’s difficult to find & add business in these sites.

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4 Ways To Tap Into Local Markets

Harp Interactive

Google has added geotagging to Blogger. Google Buzz nearby mobile feature serves up a list about places, and users can read Buzz info about those places from others who are both in and outside their networks. Submitting to local business directories with Geo-optimized content: Top Local Search Engines, such as Google Maps , Yahoo!