Have you been paying marketing agencies to update and/or add listings for you? Well, you can stop doing that right now! Here’s how to update your business listing / citation on two large business data aggregators – InfoUSA and Acxiom, FREE OF CHARGE! Infogroup Infogroup/InfoUSA has a large database with millions of local businesses, and is used […]

You’ve probably heard the jargon being thrown about and have heard Local SEO practitioners tell you that your business needs more citations. But, as a business owner, what is a local search citation and how does it affect your business? Simply put, a local search citation is nothing but a citation of your business’ information […]

Duplicate listings are the online equivalent of a pest infestation. They’re difficult to catch, it takes a lot of work to get rid of them and, they can mess up your rankings. Every site will have it’s own procedures to get rid of them and it could be months before the dupes go away. To […]

We’ve all heard about data aggregators, how awesome they are, and how they help you in so many different ways. Very few people actually know what they are, what they do, and how they do it. At the end of the day, they are huge corporations who basically own bulk data about people, places, and everything else […]

As a business owner, it’s never easy to see someone bash your business online just because of one less-than-perfect experience with your product or service. Before you call up your lawyer to see if you can win a defamation case against Ms.X for saying so and so, let’s address the issue at hand. Someone was […]

Do you remember the last time you believed a wordy testimonial on a website? I sure don’t. It’s become common knowledge that businesses might not always have accurate testimonials on their website. But, what if you could show your visitors that the reviews are real by shooting a videos of happy customers? If a picture is worth […]

Reviews are a part and parcel of running a business that can really affect your bottom line. The more reviews you have on local directories and other platforms such as Facebook, Google+ and Foursquare, the more likely you are to get more customers walking into your establishment. The downside of allowing just about anyone to […]

Local SEO isn’t as easy as it used to be anymore, and for you to succeed in ranking in the six-pack, it’s important to use the right tools for the trade. After all, what would a professional be without the right tools? In this blog post, we curate twenty five of the best Local SEO […]

WHAT IS CALL TRACKING? Call Tracking is the process of using a special number to track the telephonic impact of the marketing effort on lead generation and ultimately, sales. It tracks the information you need about the calls made to your business including the number of calls, length of each call, location of the caller […]

ecently approached me and asked me if there was a simple, uncomplicated way for a local business owner to audit their website and Local SEO; to him, it was too herculean a task to keep up with all that was happening in the industry and do a simple sanity check of his website. In part, The […]