Bill Hartzer

JULY 31, 2013

I think the title of this post, “be careful when choosing an SEO” (search engine optimization) professional really says it all. The problem is that we’re now seeing an influx of “SEO snake oil salesmen” sending emails like this, offering their “services”: From: Allison allison.janney0@gmail.com.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 27, 2013

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t tell people not to buy SEO services. Your site will rank better in the search engines if you optimize it for the search engines, but don’t be fooled by unnecessary SEO services. There is one SEO service that is so completely unnecessary that it won’t help your site one bit.

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Kikolani

MARCH 11, 2013

If you don’t do SEO for a living but want to do some major search marketing work with your website, you’re in luck. The following are awesome SEO tools you can use for free or cheap for a limited time to do your search marketing research. Premium SEO Tools with Free Account Options. MajesticSEO.

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Kikolani

MAY 24, 2016

However, after you start learning more about SEO, mobile-friendly design, and conversion, there is a tendency to step back and take a look at your site in a new perspective. But what about all the other stuff you didn’t know or forgot was important for SEO or converting traffic? It’s good for SEO. It should load quickly.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 20, 2011

» Are You Getting Bad Real Estate SEO Advice? Hat tip to Matt McGee for bringing this to my attention, but I have long thought that real estate agents and brokers were getting bad SEO advice. There are other things I’d recommend for SEO. But for SEO, I wouldn’t recommend it. Just so-so.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 12, 2014

Rich snippets are a small part of the microformat technology. These are: Person – If you have a directory of persons on your website or authors that write content for you, this markup will make it easier for the search engines to catalog those persons. SEO for Small Business microformats Rich Snippets schema.org search engines'

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 4, 2011

The True Meaning Of Content » Why Article Marketing Will Never Die A couple of days ago I wrote about Google’s recent algorithm change and how it is beating down the article directories. I’m not willing to say that article directories are dead. Smart business owners change with them.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you’re a small business or new startup, you don’t have money to waste on expensive advertising like your bigger competitors can. Start by brainstorming with your business partners and connections to come up with several cheap outside-the-box marketing tricks. List your business in local business directories.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 19, 2011

Google slapped the article directories hard, so hard that you might not want to keep putting your articles there. But there is actually a better way to go about marketing your business and your website these days. d/b/a/ Small Business Mavericks, Minneapolis, Minnesota Website Design, Development & Promotion Services.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 17, 2012

One of the biggest problems for website owners is negative SEO or competitors pointing unwanted links toward their competitions website. Bing doesn’t think so either, so as of two weeks ago Bing launched a disavow links tool to help give webmasters a little bit more control over negative SEO and unwanted links. Does that seem fair?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 11, 2012

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 26, 2014

Tara Banda makes some good points in the article SEO In The City: Tips Inspired by the City That Never Sleeps. She sees some correlations between the busy neighborhood streets full of stores and restaurants and the way our websites function. 5 Local Mobile SEO Tips. Make it really obvious who you are and what you do.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 26, 2012

You could buy links, pay for directory listings, and even pay to have people promote you through social media. These tactics are frowned upon by search engines and most ethical business owners. You can gain a lot of inbound links if the deal is good enough, and social mentions are now considered good SEO fodder.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Article directories and similar content farms all took a big hit in search rankings. The lesson for all website owners, particularly those who run a business from their website, is to try and produce content that grabs people’s interest.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 13, 2011

Some of the biggest slap downs occurred in the article directory niche. The top article directories lost tons of rankings within minutes along with traffic and revenue. SEOs are coming out of the woodwork now to “educate&# the rest of us how to ensure our sites aren’t affected by Panda and future similar updates.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

All of this is well and good, but if you’re going to listen to bad SEO advice, then you’ll have to suffer the consequences of said advice. You relied on article directories and bad business directories. When you do, going forward, don’t trust the wrong people with your SEO.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 11, 2011

One of the decisions you’ll have to make is whether or not your Web business is local, global, or if it even matters. Local directories. But what if your business is global? Global online businesses have specific marketing plans as well, but it’s actually a little more difficult to plan for local online marketing.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 31, 2015

Directories – Directories are still an important source of traffic for many websites. List your business in directories like Yelp and Angie’s List to get found by local people searching for you, and your customers can leave reviews of your business, which are important for generating more website traffic.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 7, 2014

Here are a few highlights from the survey: more businesses are spending $10 to $50k a month on link building (including content projects) — 37% instead of 2013′s 11%. article directories are considered least effective. paid links and article directories tied in most votes for harmful tactics.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

Small Business…Big Coverage! Rebecca Lieb, author of one of the best SEO books ever , observes that “Press releases don’t work (the way they used to) any more. ” 8 Steps to Leveraging PR for SEO by gShift Labs. ** 5 STARS. by Blogging PRWeb. What brand marketers can learn from PR by iMedia Connection.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 31, 2014

Now that Matt Cutts has declared guest blogging dead , SEOs and Internet marketers in every niche will start looking for alternative ways to build links back to their websites. There are other ways to create backlinks, and I’m not talking about website and article directories. At least, the spammy ones will.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Understanding of SEO and Analytics —Getting your company online is no doubt crucial to the success of a business. If someone was going to use the Internet to search for your company, SEO becomes very important. Amanda DiSilvestro is a writer on topics ranging from social media to business phone systems. of the U.S.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 30, 2011

The truth is most SEOs only use one primary keyword for their anchor text. Build your links from a lot of different types of websites (directories, blogs, forums, etc.) When you go about your link building campaigns, do you bother yourself with ensuring your links are varied in nature? Link diversity means several things.

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Navolutions

APRIL 11, 2013

While there are many changes happening right now to the way Google displays listings for small businesses, Google has made it crystal clear that business reviews will play a huge role in the future. In just a year, he’s doubled his work force, doubled his number of trucks, and outgrown his old building.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Link building tips for personal blogs – directories, forums, guest posting, and more. Search Engines / SEO / Analytics. The best SEO tip – search engine optimization, link building, etc. Microsites vs one large website – an SEO argument for each type of site. is all about trust!

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Kikolani

MARCH 12, 2010

Business / Finance. Top 5 free online business plan helpers. Free business listings in local search directories. 9 tips for creating more small business blogging ideas. Search Engines / SEO. Off page SEO best practices. 10 tips for better SEO. SEO optimize your Facebook fan page.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 18, 2012

There is a lot of noise on the web at present surrounding the removal of low quality directories from Google’s search results. When running a few tests myself, I found I could replicate some of the results mentioned, however, there were many directories that have reappeared in search results.

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Kikolani

JULY 4, 2010

I know that most of my readers are well aware of the reasons to love CommentLuv , including its great benefits to blog owners, readers, and especially commenters with the ability to promote blog posts and articles on article directories and networks such as HubPages, Squidoo, EzineArticles, & more. CommentLuv Enabled Blogs List.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

I’ve already written about Google’s recent algorithm update that has resulted in many websites losing search rankings while benefiting WikiHow and eHow, both considered content farms by many SEOs and Internet marketers. Article directories? » Should We Continue To Trust Google? Google, puh-lease!

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Sprout Social

JUNE 24, 2019

To learn more about these, and all of our certified agency partners, check out the Partner Directory. CF Search Marketing is a Digital Marketing company that specializes in SEO, SEM, SMM, reputation management, social advertising and webcare. Here is a list of the agencies who helped found the program. Arcane Digital. and Canada.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Home About In the Media Royal Challengers Bangalore Fanatic Fans Challenge Basics of Search engine optimization (SEO) September 29, 2009.11:01 Top Blogs Directory – The marketing & social media section in the directory of top Indian blogs. Reply daksh September 29, 2009 at 8:42 pm Yes, Apu after a long time.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Thinking that eating salads is the only way to lose weight is the same as thinking “article directories” provide the only real authentic link building juice. However, if you sniff around and do research, you’ll uncover 5-6 awesome techniques that are legit and will provide value to your SEO efforts. How come Google made this change?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Under Basic Directory Information click on View Settings. « Previous | Next » About Saying It Social, LLC provides Social Media Marketing & Local SEO Services for Franchisees & other Small Businesses. In the upper right hand corner click on Account>Privacy Settings.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Other key components of local search marketing include: Off-page signals like directory listings and citations – Third-party citations will always be important in local search marketing. You should include Schema markup for your company name, address, and phone number. You can learn more about Schema markup at Schema.org.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

There are several blog directories that you can sign up for and a thousand ways to generate traffic but I have not found anything as impressive as BlogBurst. I will review all of the different blog directories and services I use for my local Concord Ca. blog in time but BlogBurst needs special mention. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2011

It didn’t go viral , so he moved on to SEO. He bought a couple of courses, got himself listed in a bunch of directories, and created a linkwheel or two. SEO is king. To do this you have to steer clear of sleazy “black hat” tactics in favor of honest and effective strategies , and maybe find some good SEO software to help.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

Small Business Websites Need Directory Links ¬ Twitoria Highlights Inactive Twitter Followers #3464 March 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm [.] However if they have the same “Twitter Friend-Follower Ratio&# as before, but say 350 updates, I might follow them if they seem pretty interesting. Ryan Martin’s last blog post.

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