Local Search
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SEO for Small Businesses: A Primer for Maximizing Visibility in a Competitive Market in 2025
Visibility online is crucial to maintaining a small business these days. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a powerful strategy for increasing visibility so potential customers can find your business. SEO is about improving the ranking of one’s website on search engines like Google, which would help potential customers reach their business while searching for a specific product or service. In this…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What is Authority?
In the digital landscape, authority has become a critical determinant of business success, yet it remains one of modern business’s most misunderstood and poorly measured aspects. At its core, business authority represents the degree to which a company or individual is recognized as a credible, trustworthy, and influential voice within its sphere of operation. However, true authority extends beyond mere…
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Advertising Technology
Local Marketing in 2025: The 7 Trends and Technologies Local Businesses Can No Longer Ignore
The landscape of local marketing has transformed dramatically. Google data continues to show that searches for local places outpace comparable searches without local intent. This shift indicates that consumers increasingly expect search results to automatically consider their location, making local marketing more crucial than ever. 78% of shoppers used at least three channels for shopping last year, with 66% planning…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Local SEO: Mistakes To Avoid With Your Organic Search in 2024
This week, I visited the grand opening of a new restaurant in our town after seeing some of the business’s carefully placed signage up and down the main intersections around them. However, they left out the best-performing signage today: having an online presence on maps and local organic search results… for free. After my wife and I had a delicious…
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Marketing Tools
Mangools: A Collection of Elegant SEO Tools For Optimizing Your Site for Search Engines
Search results are an ideal channel for acquiring meaningful, intent-driven traffic to your business online. Of course, businesses and marketers face the challenge of optimizing their websites amidst ever-evolving search engine algorithms and; quite honestly, a rather questionable SEO industry where consultants either don’t keep up or ignore the needs of the business altogether as they look to just game…
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Martech Zone Apps
App: How To Find Your Company’s Direct Google Review Link
Online reviews have become a powerful influence on consumer decisions. When it comes to a local marketing strategy, Google Reviews has emerged as a critical factor in building trust, attracting new customers, and achieving prominence in the coveted Map Pack. The quantity, quality, and frequency of reviews can impact your local search ranking. Let’s explore why Google Reviews are vital…
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Advertising Technology
How To Get Your Business Google Guaranteed Badge for Your Home Service Company’s Local Ads
As a local service provider, you always seek ways to stand out from your competitors and attract more customers. One way to do this is by earning the Google Guaranteed badge, a program offered by Google Local Ads that can help increase your visibility and credibility with potential customers. Local service ads with the Google Guaranteed badge appear at the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SEO Statistics: History, Industry, and Trends in Organic Search (Updated for 2023)
Search engine optimization (SEO) affects the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine’s unpaid results, referred to as natural, organic, or earned results. Search Engine History Here’s a timeline of organic search history and its evolution over the years: 1994: AltaVista was launched. Ask.com (originally Ask Jeeves) started ranking links by popularity. 1995:…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
History of Google Algorithm Updates (Updated for 2023)
A search engine algorithm is a complex set of rules and processes that a search engine uses to determine the order in which web pages are displayed in search results when a user enters a query. The primary goal of a search engine algorithm is to provide users with the most relevant and high-quality results based on their search queries.…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
The Foundations Of An Effective Local Marketing Strategy
We’re working with a SaaS provider that builds auto dealer websites. As they’re speaking to prospective dealerships, we have been analyzing their prospects’ online marketing presence to help them understand the gaps in their digital marketing strategy and how switching their site platform will assist in maximizing their return on investment (ROI). How Is A Local Marketing Strategy Different? Local and digital marketing…