Category Archives: SEO

Twitter SEO

This article was updated on March 5, 2020. Twitter SEO strategies are as simple as they are effective. However, many small businesses still do not take advantage of this key social media platform which can help drive traffic, leads, and ultimately … Continue reading

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How to Find and Disavow Harmful Backlinks in Google Search Console

This article was updated on October 31, 2019. The possibility of your website being affected by negative SEO techniques still shows its ugly face in our competitive online world. Website owners see the value in increasing their search engine visibility, … Continue reading

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Increase Visibility Using The Top Small Business Directories

This article was published by Brian Loebig on 2/13/2014. It was updated by Stephen Rabil on 3/10/2021 .  Small business owners are always on the lookout for the lowest cost, highest value promotional opportunities on the Internet. Creating or claiming … Continue reading

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Online Reputation Repair

Every once in a while I receive an inquiry from a small business that is attempting to recover from a bad review(s), legal issues that are made public, or a news story that damages their online reputation. If they didn’t … Continue reading

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SEO Trends for 2014

SEO Trends in 2014 have made some important shifts since the previous year. Press releases as a way to increase high PR backlinks, have decreased in importance and Google has down ranked links from the major Internet PR sites (See … Continue reading

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How to Setup Google Plus Authorship for Better SEO

Google Plus Authorship enables writers, authors, bloggers and even guest bloggers to digitally claim their online content. It also makes Google search engine results appear with ones profile image next to the web page or article. Linking your online content … Continue reading

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Using Press Releases for Better SEO

Professionally written press releases is a 2013 SEO best practice since it creates quality backlinks to a website as well as providing quality content for Google and Bing search engines to index. Good press release services create a permanent keyword … Continue reading

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SEO Trends for 2013

Trends for search engine optimization are not as unknowable as looking into a crystal ball. It is also not as complicated as many professional SEO firms would have you believe either! In fact, as Google, Bing and Yahoo get more … Continue reading

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The SEO 80/20 Rule

This article was updated on May 7, 2018. Search engine optimization (SEO) continues to be an essential ingredient to online success for small and large businesses alike. A multitude of consultants and web service firms have developed services to meet … Continue reading

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Meta Tags for SEO

A small business should take the time to review their website meta tags and also research the best keywords for their industry and target geographical markets. Meta tags have limited impact on search engine placement, but attention to the top … Continue reading

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