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Is Hummingbird Good for your Business?

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Search for Hummingbird on SearchEngineJournal , one of the SEO industry’s leading publications, and you’ll find roughly 2,000 results. Hummingbird is Not The Death of Local SEO. First of all, all the regular local SEO tools and tactics are not going anywhere. Right now, the bird is the word.

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How to Get More Google+ Reviews for Your Business

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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. Of the top local listings (those are your A through G results), you should generally see a descending number of Google+ reviews.

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Yelp?

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Almost every business tends to have at least a few reviews that are filtered out of the list, and they’re easy to find. In the SEO world, it’s common knowledge that Google is in love with their own reviews, because it’s an ecosystem that Google can verify, and because Google loves pushing their own products.

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4 Reasons the New Google Local Stack Sucks

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The workaround solution involves hunting down a business’s Google+ page, which used to be linked to their Google map pack listings… until the local stack replaced them. On the old Google map pack, it was possible to list your business as a strictly service area business, without a brick and mortar presence. Not Anymore!

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Our Pleasanton Young Professionals Presentation: A Wrap Up & Reference

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Thanks to everyone who joined us at today’s Pleasanton Young Professionals presentation, where we covered the basics of SEO and social media marketing. If you have any other questions about what we covered, or how we can help with your SEO & SEM, you’re always welcome to leave us a comment or contact us directly.

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What Your Webmaster Can’t Do For You

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In the web development and SEO worlds, especially, even the industry’s best and brightest are subject to the whims of Google, Mozilla, Yelp, and hundreds of other major players. Look across the nation and you’ll find thousands upon thousands of local listings where businesses appear twice, and often below their competition in both cases.

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Why Your Business Presence Has To Be Mobile Ready

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If they don’t find what they need immediately, they will move to the next site on the list. Search Industry Trends local seo mobile phone responsive statistics web design web development' They use their Smartphones to help them find immediate solutions to their problems. Mobile users are not patient.

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