9 Startling Mobile Marketing Stats You Must Know in 2018

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Statistics tell a story and the latest mobile marketing statistics tell this story: You have to optimize everything you do online for mobile! “Whatever, I’m gettin’ by just fine without it. Can people just stop shouting about mobile this and mobile that?”“. Not until you listen — sometimes you just need cold hard facts to spur you to action. So …

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Google Places SEO: 8 Proven Ways to Dominate Google Local in 2018

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Do you want to dominate your Google local places search results in 2018? Then follow the 8 SEO steps listed below and you will beat your local competition! Many businesses, especially small businesses, think that achieving first-page organic search results (as opposed to paid-for AdWords type results) is a near impossibility. But the truth is, for local businesses, success in …

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7 Free and Effective Market Research Tools for Startups and Small Businesses

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Putting up a business, regardless of the size, is not a walk in the park.  One must have extensive knowledge on the industry and excellent leadership skills to boot.  Apart from skills, you have to be resourceful too. Now that we are in a digital world, all resources are almost spoon-fed to us.  But, without proper knowledge on what to …

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10 Reasons Businesses Fail at Social Media…and How to Not Be One of Them!

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Small businesses consistently fail at social media. True or False? If you answered “true”, you are correct. Small businesses setup social media accounts and are then victims of their own great expectations. The bottom line is this: [bctt tweet=”Social media won’t work for your small business if you don’t know how to work it!”]

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Warning: Virtual Offices in Google My Business to Succeed in Google Local Places

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If you intend to create a virtual office to include in your Google My Business profile to maximize your Google Places SEO positioning, you may want to reconsider. A client of The SEO System in St. Louis recently asked me if he could succeed in Google local places in other cities by establishing virtual offices in those cities. The question …

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Small Business SEO: How to Build Website “Authority” & Brand Awareness

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Let’s not mince words:  Small business SEO got a lot harder in the last few years.  Google updated their algorithms to favor authoritative brands and you have very little immediate chance of competing in any competitive niche. Want a prime example of this?  Simply do a Google search for “Small business SEO”.   Ideally, who should compete for this term?  A …

10 Internet Marketing Ideas For Your Local Business

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Are you the owner of a small business such as a clothing boutique, lawyer, dentist, plumber, or restaurant? If so, we have Internet marketing tips tailored specifically for small businesses like yours. In this article, we discuss ten proven Internet marketing ideas to get new customers and clients for your local small business in 2016. Our small business marketing tips assume …

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WordPress SEO Vulnerable To Attack!

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A security vulnerable has been discovered in the extremely popular WordPress SEO plugin, WordPress SEO by Yoast. This vulnerability potentially opens your WordPress site to a blind SQL injection attack. To remove any potential threats, you should upgrade the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin to version 1.7.4 or higher immediately.

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How Do I Get My Web Content Indexed Immediately in Google [2020 Updates]?

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Many content creators want to have their web content indexed immediately in Google.  This is possible…if you know how to do it. And, today, I’m going to tell you exactly how to get your new and updated web content immediately indexed (including new 2020 updates where I teach you How to Use Fetch As Google in the New Google Search Console).