For the past few months we at Adcuda have been promoting the importance of local search visibility. What we mean by that is the importance of being listed in local directories, 411 directories, GPS data bases, etc. Important because it’s becoming more and more natural for people to use a device, whether it be a…
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Last week, a friend of mine posted the following status update to Facebook: “How does a company/organization get onto a “Google map”? We’re missing in downtown Lexington…” Of course, I quickly pointed her to the stellar LSV services on our website, but it also got me thinking. Do my friends and acquaintances even know what…
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Change can be a good thing. Take, for instance, the Batman movie series wisely ousting director Joel Schumacher and replacing him with Christopher Nolan. Very good move, indeed. And then there’s Yellow Bot. Yellow Bot’s refreshing new spin on themselves has opened up new and improved ways for local businesses to connect with customers. Reinventing…
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Now, I was going to write more about the benefits link building has for your website’s ranking, but I keep stumbling upon online forums expressing their ire over Bing’s listing center. Some were about Bing’s listing center being down for too long, but to Bing’s credit, maintenance issues for a listing system that big can…
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Imagine, if you will, Peter Sellers playing a modern day business man. He’s looking around for ways to market his cherry bomb business. He’s done his fair share of SEO treatment via local search and modified content on his webpage. But then he stumbles upon a process called link building, which gets him so excited…
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When you read biographies, usually the author dedicates at least 20 pages for referencing anecdotes, accounts and other information to make good on the person, place or event. That being said, it’s almost a no-brainer why local search directories love citations. If your local listing is chock full of quality citations, major player search engines…
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Stumbling upon a new local search listing is always fun. Such is the case with my newest treasure, iBegin. Like my recent fascination with Local.com’s revamped style, iBegin is an online directory that has a number of helpful tools to maximize your business presence. Here are a few reasons why iBegin can be your next…
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Updates are important for every local search site. Giving your customers new toys to play with, or in the case of Local.com, giving them better sustenance with their listing can go a long way to making a local search site more user-friendly and appealing. I was giddy with excitement today to find out the one…
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Local search sites can teach you many things. They give you so many options for your business to become relevant. You can let the customers understand your services with the nice SEO business descriptions, photos, consumer reviews and so forth—yes, there are many pretty rainbows to local search. Yet, every now and then a little…
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Closers. No matter where you go, they’re seemingly inescapable. Lawyers have closing arguments, baseball games have closers come in for one last inning, businesses have last-minute sales to make everyone go on a shopping bonanza and on and on the closer goes. And *surprisingly* enough, local search listings have calling cards inside their business description…
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