David

Local Business Listings

Regional Google Search Results
As important as being represented in the organic search results is for a small business it's equally important, if not more important to have your company ranked prominently in Google's Local Business Listings.

The algorithm that determines who gets to be #1 in the organic serps is different than the one that runs Local Business Listings for Google.

To improve your brick n mortar store listing...

Recent posts to the Warrior Forum have been on the topic of newbie internet marketers needing a quick $1000 or $2000 income 'shot in the arm'.

Most of them have some basic IM skills but lack what it takes to 'get them a jump start'. Most of this is psychological, they seem to feel insecure doing something that they've never done before.

Many newbie marketers read the copy of those who are successful, they *think* they can do it, but have an irrational internal fear...

Now Facebook will let you set up a blog for a company... and I now offer to set them up AND manage them as if they were company blogs.

SEO is what I do... and SEO is about building powerful backlinks for my clients existing company website.

To date I've been using a combination of blogspot blogs and wordpress blogs and get those to rank high in the search engines. I get them to rank on their OWN merits before I get them to point to the website of the company I'm representing....

If you're going to use a Blogspot blog for business purposes here are common mistakes I often see when people ask me for a free SEO consultation.

You can use a blogspot blog for a stand alone business website but most of the time the reason for having a blogspot blog is to support an existing company website.

If the local competition does not know enough to capitalize on a blog, the net effect is that the existing company website will rank in Google and the Blog will...

What a Christmas present for someone who gets paid to do publicity!

My story, http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/da...s-shelter.html , is being featured on the A1 Front Page of the 2nd largest Newspaper in Maryland.

Frederick News Post

This isn't the first time I've gotten the attention of the newspaper. A client of mine got written up, that's how the paper found out about me.

The day the story came out for the bicycle...