Today, I saw the intense need for businesses to have our Securit-E protection program in action. On Facebook, someone was asking a very important and common question: Where should I get married? There where a lot of amazing answers, some ranged from the usual to the unusual, and one person was completely sure that they
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Backlinking through your website? Good. Backlinking through your blog? The more quality links the better. But how about through your social media profile? Can it be done? Yes. Are all sites created equal for link building? No, not at all. Check out this infographic from socialseo.com and see what you can do with each site:
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Customer service has changed. Before, when someone had a problem with your company they could only call your business and give customer service a piece of their mind. Or, they could tell all their friends their opinion about your business and you would never have any idea anything was wrong. In essence, there was no
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SoURCES: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/promo_no7.htm http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Link-Trading-Help/Link-Farming-No-Good-Harvest/ So, you decided to be a SEO freelancer and you know what you need to do. You need to bring links to your sites, and you need to bring a lot of them. Because crawlers for search engines use link popularity as one of their most fundamental factors for determining site popularity.
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SOURCES: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/yelp-and-the-business-of-extortion-20/Content?oid=1176635 http://www.Yelpscam.com http://wwww.complaintsboard.com http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/02/yelp-extortion-true-or-false.html Think Yelp.com can only hurt or help you based on customer reviews? It might be time to think again. Recent articles and exposure pieces have begun to emerge on the morality of Yelp.com’s practices. Particularly, in their practice of repeatedly calling businesses offering to “fix” their negative reviews. According to
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Great Article about how important your Internet Reputation is via http://www.searchengineoptimization.co.uk/seo-articles/online-reputation-management/is-it-important-to-improve-your-internet-reputation.html Is it Important to Improve Your Internet Reputation? Trying to keep up with the reviews that you get on your website can be a challenge. If you have a lot of positive reviews, you are more inclined to respond and post updates, but if
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Great Article via: http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml Written by Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall Link Building… Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it’s still the trump card for higher rankings. Many of us have been hoping that it would go away. In Brett Tabke’s 5/18 Robots.txt entry, he echoed a sentiment that many, many webmasters hold
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We here at Intelligent Designs Media know about “the trap” social media can spring. Social media is “free,” anyone can join, and if you are running a business, you can gain followers pretty quickly. Which is why when we talk to a lot of businesses, they usually “know everything” about social media already. However, 95%
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Gossip. Rumors. Juice… Whatever you want to call the art of people talking, it is no secret that people love to do it and people love to listen about it. Perez Hilton is a multi-millionaire based on gossip. Yelp. Angie’s List. Trip Adviser. All sites making a fortune off people’s tendency to gossip. With gossip,
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As the wise say, and the picture implies, image is everything. For photographers, that is on a whole different level. And for small businesses, your online reputation is the make and/or break of you. We are a small, local business and we know that building your brand and good reputation is the absolute most essential
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