This past Monday it was discovered that more local listings were starting to show up in Google for more competitive keywords.

This is great news for local businesses who previously have only been displayed in Google in the event someone typed in a specific location.

For example, if I type in the one word of “spa” within Google, I now get local listings of all the spas located in my area. See below.


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On November 20th, 2008 Google released it’s new SearchWiki that allows you to rearrange how you view your search engine results pages.
Here’s a quick video from Google explaining how it works. Once you watch this, I’ll give you my two cents on how this might affect your websites SEO positioning.

You can view Google's video here.

All right, so after watching the video you now know that you can:

• Rearrange the search results to your liking;
• Add notes to

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It used to be that one of the top reasons web pages were ranked highly was due to their excessive use of stuffing keywords into their meta keywords tag or filling up their web page with the same word or phrase over and over; also referred to as "keyword density".

As times have changed and as they continue to change there is still one critical element to effective SEO that has remained consistent throughout all search engine time and that is your title tag.

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