Marketing Podcast with Justin SturgesPodcast Transcript SEO tools and strategies are constantly changing. All the while, it’s never been more important that you get found online when people go out there searching – particularly if you’re a local business. Your website is the foundation for how you get ranked and found locally. It’s important to […]
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I work with clients and consultants all over the world, and a common theme I see is that many local businesses don’t know where to get started when it comes to local search, and with that, comes not understanding the importance of link building and how to get started. Link building has been, and remains
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Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Link Building Despite what you may have heard, link building is not some technical SEO-type of under-the-hood tactic. It is the new networking, and no matter what Google does to try to devalue backlinks, they remain an important factor in terms of your site showing up when people search
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Pre-internet days, it didn’t take a lot for local businesses to notify a prospect that they are located in the same city. Handing them a flyer with business details and an address was pretty much a giveaway as to where you did business. Running an ad in the local daily newspaper or the Yellow Pages
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Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Google AdWords Today I’m going to address Google AdWords for local businesses. This is going to be pretty prescriptive. I’m not going to try to teach you everything there is to know about AdWords today. I’m going to outline what I think is the best approach for small local businesses,
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Most local business owners are aware that positive online reviews are good for business, but over the years, I’ve realized many aren’t aware of just how much they can impact it. Today’s consumers are increasingly relying on reviews to make decisions about the products and services they purchase, in fact: 88% of consumers trust online reviews
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Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) just announced it is making its Assistant more helpful by recommending nearby service professionals, such as electricians, plumbers, housecleaners and others. Google Assistant and Local Services Integration The addition of Assistant in this segment is part of Google’s drive to make local services readily available for consumers. It started as a pilot
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One of the biggest challenges facing a franchisee’s growth is their ability to execute a winning digital marketing strategy that is unfettered by a franchiser. A struggle often exists between a franchiser’s need to control their brand, and a franchisee’s desire to market their business through their own strategies. According to Jason Decker of Search
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has announced its #SmallThanks initiative designed to enable Google-listed businesses to generate customized marketing materials to promote their business for free. Small Thanks with Google The marketing materials include social media images, posters, stickers, window clings, table tents and more, based on the “local love” businesses receive from customer reviews on Google. Google-listed
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Oh, in my truest Bob Dylan voice, the times they are a changing for local marketing and SEO. Local search is one of the last places left for Google to wring a little more ad spend out of small businesses. The local map listing today is pure gold for mobile searches for certain types of
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