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Digging Up Local SEO Keyword Gold with the Google Places Dashboard & Google Analytics

August 6, 2012 Mike Comments 7 comments

As a local business there is always the desire to drive business from neighboring cities. When it comes to local search, its no different. In most cases the clients I talk to would target every city within a thirty mile radius for their local SEO efforts, but as we all know, this probably isn’t the best strategy. But how do you know what local areas to target, especially when keyword tools struggle with low volume searches in local search? The…

Google Announces Google+ Local Verification Rollout

August 3, 2012 Mike Comments 0 Comment

Earlier today Googler Jade Wang announced on the Google and Your Business Group that Google has finally rolled out the verification process for local Google+ Pages. By becoming a verified business owner of your Google+ Page, your business’ presence across Google Search, Google Maps, and Google+ will be unified and you’ll be able to manage your information from the Google+ Page admin. Verifying ownerships will combine the page you created in Google+ with the page in Google+ Local (formerly Google Places). For…

5 Reasons Your Infographic Sucks

June 6, 2012 Mike Comments 0 Comment

First, let me start out by saying that I am in no way an infographic hater like so many internet marketers these days. I think infographics are an awesome way to showcase data in a non-boring format. That being said, these things are being cranked out so quickly anymore that I feel that many companies aren’t doing enough to make sure their infographics don’t suck. Just because your infographic is pretty, doesn’t mean it should lack quality. After all, if…