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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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What is Robots.Txt?

BeingOptimist

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. Disallow : It lists the files or webpages or directories which are to be excluded from indexing. Googlebot-Videos (for videos).

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4 Ways To Tap Into Local Markets

Harp Interactive

Geotagging: Allows businesses to embed geographical location information within websites, images, videos and other digital media. Submitting to local business directories with Geo-optimized content: Top Local Search Engines, such as Google Maps , Yahoo! Local , and MSN’s Live Local.

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comScore January 2012 Search Engine Rankings

Bill Hartzer

percentage points) and Yahoo! billion searches, followed by Yahoo! percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in these numbers. Google led the U.S. percent (up 0.1

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comScore Search Engine Rankings for June 2009

Bill Hartzer

Google has 65 percent market share, Yahoo! Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers. Bing.com, the new Microsoft-owned search engine, has taken away some of the Yahoo! percent market share.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

Customer review websites are local directories that allow users to add and express their opinions about the various businesses in the directory. Insider Pages , Google Maps , Bing Local , City Search , Yahoo Local , Local.com , Merchant Circle. Integrate customer review software within your website. Very bright. Did you know?

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comScore Releases August 2009 Search Engine Rankings

Bill Hartzer

percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! 64.6% -0.1 - - - Yahoo! Searches for mapping, local directory, and. user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five. Searches for mapping, local directory, and. user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five.