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JULY 11, 2014

Greg Gifford, a self-described “Local SEO geek”, just put out a timely guide titled Everybody Needs Local SEO on the Moz Blog. He knows what he’s talking about because he does hyper-local SEO and manages social media for car dealerships all over the country. Basic Local SEO.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In the early days of Web marketing, webmasters spent their SEO capital writing impressive meta descriptions and stuffing their web pages with keywords. Then, along came blogging and social media, videos, mobile marketing, etc. While the particulars of SEO have changed drastically over the years, the essence of it has not.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Whether you are a big business executive, middle manager, or a small business owner, you’d be hard pressed to succeed at SEO (or any Internet marketing) without the use of analytics. Many social media marketers are stuck on measuring Likes, tweets, and shares, but is that what you really should be measuring?

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JUNE 7, 2013

There’s a new trend among Internet marketers to explain social media in a way that makes it synonymous with search engine optimization. You are likely to perceive social media marketing as primarily a link building exercise when, in fact, it isn’t. This is what social media’s real purpose is.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

One question that you’ll have to answer early on is this: Is branding or SEO more valuable to your business? As much as I believe that SEO is unavoidable, when it comes down to pure marketing value, branding is a lot more important. You can brand your business through SEO, but you can’t SEO your website with branding.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2011

SEO is important. I mean, how will you rank in the search engines for the key terms you want to be known for if you don’t employ sound SEO strategies? But you should also understand that there are some things about SEO that you can’t control. SEO and social media are the nuts and bolts of online marketing.

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JULY 8, 2014

Neil Patel of Search Engine Journal has given us a good look at what he thinks are the 8 Most Important SEO Data Points of Any Website. Social Media Interaction counts the number of people who are interacting with your social media presence by sharing, liking, or commenting.

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MARCH 4, 2012

Are eCommerce websites any different to a standard website or blog when it comes to SEO? You would think that a website was a website and that SEO is similar across the board. In essence, SEO is similar, however, different types of websites do need to concentrate on different areas of SEO.

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APRIL 22, 2011

There are other benefits to blogging, but these are three of the biggest SEO benefits. 3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise | Small Business Mavericks [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. 3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise | Small Business Mavericks [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Online marketing and SEO are really trying to achieve the same results – they just go about it differently. Some will argue that SEO is part of an online marketing strategy whilst others will argue the opposite, online marketing is part of an SEO strategy. SEO is still important.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Is video marketing a useful SEO tool? Given the emphasis on social media in search algorithms, the answer has to be a big yes. For a video to do well in social media, it needs to be shareable, and heavily branded videos aren’t really shareable. Instead, think of the SEO value to your videos.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

These are two areas of SEO that you should pay attention to in the future. Beyond that, you should also focus on creating quality content, promoting it through social media and other relevant online channels, building your brand, and establishing relationships with key influencers in your niche.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

Everybody should understand enough of how the internet works to utilize SEO, even if all you are doing is trying to find something. For a business, though, SEO skills are increasingly sought among employees. Chuck Price just gave us the 2015 Guide to Free SEO Training Courses Online and it is nice to see all that help in one place.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

You should plan on having a strong social media promotional campaign. Here are five good reasons to invest in social media promotion : Search engine optimization (SEO) – Social media promotion itself is SEO. Authority – Social media also increases your authority.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

There’s been so much written about social media that you might think my question – What’s the point? It isn’t whether or not social media has a point. The question, rather, is, What exactly is the point to social media? Social media actually has many points.

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JULY 26, 2012

Are you linking to your social media profiles? In fact, fewer than 20% of SMBs link to social media profiles, and they’re making a big mistake. There are two primary reasons you should link from your website or blog to social media websites : It builds your social authority. It’s good SEO.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Here are seven simple ways to improve your SEO in just a few minutes each day. Share your content on social media – And I don’t just mean post it on Facebook either. All it takes to improve your SEO each day is a little bit of time and a plan. Yes, do that. Bloggers will even blog about your content.

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APRIL 9, 2012

When it comes to SEO for small business, it all starts with a good content. If you can get them to leave a review, or mention your site through social media, that’s great. Do you use social media to bookmark them and recommend them to friends, or are your favourite site bookmarked in your browser?

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DECEMBER 17, 2011

From social media to search engine optimization (SEO) to classified sites. More small businesses are going with SEO because the visitors to their sites got there by doing a search for something that related to their business. Don’t get me wrong, many businesses use social media and are quite successful with it.

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APRIL 20, 2011

According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to profit more from social media than big businesses or corporations. So what is meant by social media? Small businesses owners only have to spend a few minutes a day on two or three social networking sites to see any benefits.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Search engine optimization (or SEO) is often made out to be some strange and scary beast that only professionals dare go near. In reality, SEO is a tame beast. Sure, once you get past the basics, SEO can be time consuming, and perhaps even frustrating at times, but in reality, it’s still a simple concept.

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MAY 29, 2013

There are a lot of ways to make social media work for you, but it’s important in this age of search + social to approach social media with the right frame of mind. There are some good reasons to believe that a sound social media strategy is the best link building policy of today.

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MAY 13, 2012

One of the biggest benefits to social media marketing is the low cost. Rather than engaging in social media marketing themselves, they are more likely to delegate this role to someone else – often the person responsible for computer maintenance or SEO.

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MAY 24, 2011

Famed journalist turned Internet entrepreneur Peter Shankman wrote a scathing criticism of social media experts and recommended that no one hire one of these dastardly little creatures. Then, SEO icon Rand Fishkin lambasted him for it. Perhaps a social media expert on staff isn’t such a bad idea after all.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Well, there are several things you can do right now to improve your SEO. In just a couple of weeks, you can improve your SEO tremendously. Here are the top 5 ways to improve your SEO right now. Here are the top 5 ways to improve your SEO right now. Build quality inbound links and you’ll have staying SEO power.

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JULY 29, 2012

Blogging has often been called the bridge between social media and search engine optimization. Do that three times a day and you increase your SEO coverage. With the advent of social media, you have other ways to get traffic to your blog other than through the search engines. They go hand in hand.

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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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AUGUST 27, 2011

When it comes to small business online marketing tactics, what is more effective – blogs, social media, or e-mail? Blogs are also very effective – as SEO tools, as branding tools, and as social media marketing tools. Social media marketing is something that can’t be done in a vacuum.

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APRIL 11, 2011

» 10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) Confused about SEO? Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? If your SEO guru or free e-book download is telling you to do these 10 things, fire him or throw the book away.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

One could say that blogging is as much social media as SEO. Here are 5 ways to make your blogging more social: Add social media icons to your blog – Let your visitors know they can share your posts on their favorite social media websites. Blogging and social media go hand in hand.

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MAY 1, 2012

It’s hard for some business owners to rationale the effect of website design on SEO, yet is is an integral part of a successful online business. Social – it’s time to think social and add social media buttons to your web pages. Do these issues really matter?

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JANUARY 10, 2012

If you read some web gurus, there’s no such thing as too much social media marketing. I see ‘gurus’ insisting that every online business should be active on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and, in some instances, specialist social media sites such as LinkedIn. Blogs are slightly different.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2011

» Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing? What may surprise many small business owners is that social media marketing is so far down the list, especially when it comes to two-way communications. This compared to only 8% for search engines and 5% for social media.

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MARCH 16, 2011

» How Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO SEOmoz has a great article on how Q&A sites can boost your SEO. Secondly, I think it’s important to point out that Pavel Israelsky classifies four different types of Q&A sites: Social Q&A – Includes sites like Quora, Aardvark, Formspring, and Facebook Answers.

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MARCH 8, 2011

But did you know that social media marketing can lead to the collateral effect of additional inbound links through others blogging about you? If you post great content in your social media efforts that in turn gets the attention of bloggers who write about you and link to you, then you will be doing yourself huge favors.

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APRIL 4, 2011

The ONLY Way To Manage Your Twitter Account » Is Social Media Inherently Viral? Social media offers Internet marketers a powerful way to get our message across, but it is work. 3 Responses to “Is Social Media Inherently Viral?&# Did you know Jackie Chan died? I didn’t either.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Social Times is predicting that social media marketing is going to get harder , not easier. In the past few years, social media have been growing. So if growth of the social media platforms is going to slow down, what’s that mean for marketers? I can see their point, and I agree. Are you ready?

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