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SEO Your Website For Foreign Market Acquisition

How can a U.S. company expand its presence in an English-speaking foreign markets? An overview of the pros and cons from an SEO and marketing standpoint, as well…

By Dave Davies · 17 Jun 2011

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New Google Ads Expand Offers Arsenal

Google is trying their damndest to build an effective daily deal and offers service, but it's an uphill struggle. Google's recently added…

By Rob D Young · 16 Jun 2011

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Google Adds City Pages & Descriptive Terms in Local

Google is struggling to make its mark in the local scene in the aftermath of the failed Groupon buyout. Two brand new…

By Rob D Young · 15 Jun 2011

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Top 5 International Link Building Blunders

There are many ways to get international links. Like anything when it comes to link building, it isn't easy. If you know…

By Michael Bonfils · 08 Jun 2011

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Google Offers and Payments: It’s all about Search

If you’ve been awake for any of the past 48 hours, you probably heard about Google’s new Offers product. And you’ve likely…

By Michael Boland · 03 Jun 2011

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Bing Maps Changes View of Streetside

Bing Maps announced changes to it's Streetside view in Bing Maps, getting rid of the previous 360 degree panoramic bubbles and flattening…

By Thom Craver · 01 Jun 2011

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Winning Multinational eCommerce SEO Strategies

Ecommerce lives and dies on its conversion rate. Get the three key areas covered here right, and you'll be able to conquer…

By Chris Liversidge · 30 May 2011

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6 Ways to Use Social Media to Boost Local Search Results

Local marketers have embraced social media, and in so doing have discovered half-a-dozen different platforms which divide their attention, effort and time.…

By Jon Schepke · 20 May 2011

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Google Wants Users To Confirm Business Listings

David Mihm noted that Google Maps listings for businesses now include overlays asking if they are still operating, in the case of…

By Frank Watson · 09 May 2011

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Checking Into the Future with Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley

The remaining challenge for Foursquare is the SMB segment, where advertisers aren't as easy to reach. The proposition is for SMBs to…

By Michael Boland · 06 May 2011

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Google Offers Accepting Business Sign-ups in Portland

Google promises businesses that the Groupon-style program, which went live last week, will help bring in new customers, with Google handling all…

By Danny Goodwin · 26 Apr 2011

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Groupon Counters Google Offers By Hiring Exec. Who Worked On Their Local Offerings

While Google launched their new Offers service last week – a coupon product similar to Groupon, the company that turned down a…

By Frank Watson · 25 Apr 2011

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Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 3

Google Places tips and strategies for image optimization, reviews, and geographic targeting.

By Dave Davies · 22 Apr 2011

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Google Offers Live in Portland; Coming Soon to NYC, San Francisco

Google Offers, Google’s version of Groupon or LivingSocial, has launched in Portland, Oregon, and will soon offer daily deals from local restaurants…

By Danny Goodwin · 21 Apr 2011

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Group-Buying Meets Local Search

The daily deals market continues to grow with new players, as well as established companies weaving deals into their core offerings. At…

By Jeff Beard · 21 Apr 2011

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Google Map Maker: User Generated Tagging of Live Google Maps

Google has opened up Google MapMaker to all Google Account users to edit any spot in the United States. With the philosophy…

By Thom Craver · 20 Apr 2011

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Google Tags Out With Bad Team Coordination

Google announced it is dropping the Tags feature for its Places product – a feature they were selling to small businesses to…

By Frank Watson · 15 Apr 2011

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Q&A with Foursquare’s Evan Cohen on Social, Local & Mobile

Foursquare's evolution, directions, monetization, and the collision of mobile and daily deals: a conversation with Foursquare GM Evan Cohen.

By Michael Boland · 08 Apr 2011

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Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 2

A step-by-step guide to help you better understand how to enter/edit the information for your Places page and send good SEO signals…

By Dave Davies · 27 Mar 2011

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Healthy Local Search

The health industry has realized that local search marketing can have great benefits. An overview of health-related tools, directory and review sites,…

By Dean Stephens · 20 Mar 2011

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Your Company Sucks! The Online Reputation Management Wars

Don't wait until you wake up one day and find that a slanderous site is suddenly ranking for searches on your company…

By Kristine Schachinger · 17 Mar 2011

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Google Awestruck In Presence Of Royalty

The official Royal Wedding site launched this week and Google custom search was incorporated much to the glee of the Google Custom…

By Frank Watson · 12 Mar 2011

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Discovering the Right SoLoMo Formula

The mobile discovery trend is taking on new forms with growing smartphone penetration, and a Groupon-fueled hunger for the deals infused with…

By Michael Boland · 11 Mar 2011

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Cooper Tire Hijacked 2300 Listings at Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages

More glitches in local search listings hijack other businesses.

By Frank Watson · 09 Mar 2011

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On Yelp and Google: Shaky Friends, Uncertain Futures

Are you too reliant on any one source for your traffic or leads in local search? What search marketers can learn from…

By Greg Habermann · 09 Mar 2011

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