Kyle Obrien

Pitch A Tent For Bing

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted May 11th, 2010

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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Tom Jenkins

Need A Google XML Sitemap?

By: Tom Jenkins - Posted May 5th, 2010

Yes you do. We’re all familiar with the idea of a website sitemap. It’s generally that convoluted page that has all the links that really don’t help you navigate to where you want to be because it’s not structured very well and it just goes on and on and on kinda like this sentence. Well,…

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Kyle Obrien

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Link

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted May 4th, 2010

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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Kyle Obrien

Local Search…Historian?

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted April 27th, 2010

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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Kyle Obrien

Where You End And iBegin

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted April 20th, 2010

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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Kyle Obrien

Create A Hubbub With Your Hub Page

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted April 13th, 2010

hubbub n. 1. a confused noise of many noises 2. uproar What’s the hubbub with HubPages and why should it matter to you, me and everyone we know? Well, for one, HubPages has many characteristics in common with Squidoo. Every published Hub Page is like a Squidoo “Lens” with informative tools about either your business,…

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Jessica Pine

Introduction + Get Updated!

By: Jessica Pine - Posted April 12th, 2010

As a new member of Adcuda I would like to introduce myself! I am a recent graduate and graphic designer from Kansas City, and I mean BIG business in design and being inspired. With that said, I like inspiring others. Interested? Here are my top 10 web sites I attend on a daily basis. (Not…

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Kyle Obrien

Local Search Updates: No Complaints Here

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted April 6th, 2010

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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Kyle Obrien

An Open Letter To Local Search Directories

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted March 30th, 2010

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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Kyle Obrien

Local Search Tips: Call to (Viral) Arms

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted March 23rd, 2010

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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