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One Way That Your Customers Can Save Gas...

This kind of ties into David Utter's recent article on saving your customer's fuel costs. I think that most of you would agree with me that these gas prices are getting ridiculous. Believe it or not, your customers are probably thinking the same thing every time they go to fill their tanks. Chances are that many of these same customers are also trying to think of ways to cut down on the amount of gas they use, if nothing else, just to save some money.

Ways a Blog Can Beneift Your SEO Efforts

Just a few reasons why a blog is a great tool for SEO.

Unique Vs. Duplicate Title Tags

This is one of those Basic SEO posts, that i feel silly writing about because “everybody knows” this information already. But then I look at websites of prospects and I realize that not everybody really does know. Or maybe they do and they just forget. In any case, this will be a quick reminder / refresher.

SBM Unleashed: The Importance of Your Keywords & Content

The Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference may be over, but we still have some information from it to share with you in case you missed it.

Google: 92 Percent Of Customers Research Buys First

Before that customer strolls into your store to make a purchase, there's an excellent chance he or she looked it up online.

SBM Unleashed: It's All About Common Sense

Continuing our coverage of the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference, let's look at what was discussed in the workshop called "A Common Sense Approach to Online Marketing". Common sense is something we like to stress here at SmallBusinessNewz, because often times, these are the things that get overlooked, particularly in marketing. The SEO Pyramid

Things to Consider When Hiring a Search Marketing Consultant

Most businesses currently running SEM campaigns could vastly improve their performance with outside help.

Local SEO Targeting or Doorway Page Spam?

I’ve been keeping an eye on several SEO related discussions on small business forums lately, and to be perfectly honest some of the “advice” being dished out by self proclaimed experts is somewhat disturbing. I’ve chipped in my 2c from time to time on the recent discussions, but having read back even a week or two I see small businesses being advised to do some pretty ridiculous stuff.  Its nuts - people are being advised by “experts” to churn out thousands of pages (one per town) just to target different locations. 

Marketing Lessons From Recessions

 

What to Expect from a Good SEO Firm

Last week I posted about 11 Ways to Recognize a Bad SEO Firm. This week, in response to many requests, I am going to turn it around and talk about a set of things to look for in identifying a good SEO firm.