Today’s post is coming right out of my personal notebook of super ninja “Anti-Local Search Arsenal”. Call it a checklist of what not to do or whatever. I have been playing with Google+ Local (Before, Google Places. Before that, Google Maps) since the starting. So, many business owners have to come to me. Everyone had
Since the birth of search engines, marketers have tried just about every tactic imaginable to boost their pages to the top of the results pages. The search engines, in turn, constantly tweak their algorithms to weed out undesirable results (duplicate content entries, keyword-stuffed pages, off-topic backlinks, and other tactics that boost an otherwise irrelevant or
On or around April 24th, 2012, Google released its latest algorithm change titled the Google Penguin update. Webmasters immediately felt the effects of this update as thousands of sites completely disappeared from the rankings while bunches of others inexplicably rose to the top. Perhaps one of the strangest results of the Google Penguin update was
Anybody who tells you that backlinking is dead as a result of the Google Penguin update is just trying to scare you or shock you. Backlinking is alive and well and it will be for a long time to come. Google may be putting more emphasis on other factors such as on-site optimization and content
With the knowledge you have now gained from reading the previous articles on my blog, you will pretty much have the Google Penguin on the ropes, wobbling about to fall down. But we aren’t happy with that. We want to be like Ivan Drago beating on Apollo Creed in Rocky IV. “If he dies… he
The old Google places is now being replaced by Google + Local Page. If you have an account with the old Google Places page, it will be merged or transferred to the Google + local Page. As of this writing, the old Google Places Page Dashboard still functions as the backend for business owners so if you login
A lot of information has been published concerning Local business listings and local SEO, however, many have not gone in-depth to explain why certain strategies are implemented. Getting a lasting ranking in the SERPS requires a solid foundation especially as regards local businesses. One of the goals of my coming articles is to help you
Any techniques you will learn from this blog will be practically useless if your business places listing is not fully optimized. You can use the templates as a standalone HTML5 template or use it in your wordpress theme. Using a landing page for your Google + Local Page listing URL instead of your home website
As you might already know, last year in May of 2012, Google replaced all their active Place Pages & upgraded into new designs to match their Google+ interface. It was a sudden update for everyone and it was seemingly haphazard & sudden update that it left all the business owners in total shock, because no
