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5 Sites to Boost Your Local SEO

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Local searches allow businesses to get their names noticed by customers in their area, but taking advantage of local searches can be difficult for business owners that are unfamiliar with local sites. While each area and type of business is different, below are five great sites to boost your local links. Foursquare. YellowPages.com.

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One Site Fits All or Better Having Microsites?

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Many website owners as their businesses expand they come to the dilemma of splitting their sites into a few microsites so they can rank better for their targeted terms. – Reasons to split a site into Microsites. By splitting your site into microsites you will have to remove a great deal of content. Links Farms Issue.

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8 Basic Yet Necessary Tools or Plugins for your Site

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There are many basic, yet overlooked, tools and plugins that you can add into your website arsenal to add functionality and intention to your business or personal site. YouTube Widget 4.0 : bastawhiz made it easy for anyone to include all of their favorite videos right on their blog or site without having to jump through hoops.

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SEO for Sites in Various Countries/Languages (International SEO)

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One of the most common dilemmas owners of successful sites face is how to expand their web businesses to different countries. Is launching a site in a different country going to have any impact in my existing rankings? Are there any duplicate content issues if all sites are going to be written in the same language (e.g

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Kick Starting My Website to Help Improve Traffic

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I figured it was just because the site was new so I gave myself a couple of months to sit back, relax and try and spread the work of my business locally. There is a science behind how search engines place websites in the results pages, which was news to me. Tips for Helping Your Site in Search. Blogs and Keywords.

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Four SEO Tips for WordPress Websites

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Not only is it used by almost a quarter of new webmasters, it’s also the system of choice for 17% of Alexa’s top one million sites on the web. If you work with WordPress, or you’re considering building a website on the platform, you will have probably wondered about SEO and whether there is anything specific you can do to optimize your site.

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Google Targets ‘Scraped’ Content and ‘Content Farms’

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In a move “to encourage a healthy web ecosystem,” Google recently announced a major change to its search algorithm – a move to devalue so-called “content farms” that primarily copy content from other websites, and sites that offer little or no value-added content for users. According to Google, its algorithm tweak “noticeably” impacted 11.8%

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