January 2010

How to Get Your Place Page URL in Google Maps

January 28, 2010

Last year Google introduced Place Page, which is an expanded profile for your small business in the Google Maps search results. The nice thing about this profile, is that it has its own URL that you can copy and share. A lot of business owners ask me how to get the link to their Google [...]

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How To Add Custom Forms To Your WordPress Website or Blog

January 26, 2010

Have you ever wanted to add a custom form to your WordPress Blog or Website? There are a lot of free WordPress plugins to do this. You can easily find some good contact forms out there, with Captchas to help prevent SPAM. But what if you want to create a custom form to collect more [...]

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Internet Search Grows 46% In 2009

January 25, 2010

According to Comscore, there were 131 billion searches conducted by people age 15 or older from home and work locations in December 2009. This represents 46% year over year growth compared to December 2008. That’s 4 Billion searches per day, 175 Million searches per hour, 29 Million per minute! What an amazing opportunity. People are [...]

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How to Turn Off Google Customized Search Results for SEO

January 24, 2010

Google customizes the search results it shows you based on your past behavior. It looks at what you’ve searched for and what you’ve clicked on and delivers different results based on that. If you are doing any search engine optimization (SEO) work for yourself or your clients, you need to turn these customizations off so [...]

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How to Add an Image to Your WordPress Sidebar

January 21, 2010

Here is something I get asked a lot – how can I add an image to my WordPress sidebar? This video shows you how: In the video, I’ll show you how to upload the widget using the WordPress Media Library, grab the URL for the uploaded image, and then use a WordPress Text Widget to [...]

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What Did Google Searches Reveal in 2009?

January 10, 2010
Google Maps Search Result

The Google Blog runs an interesting series called This Week in Search. It’s worth subscribing to, because it gives you some interesting insight into search trends. Recently they did a summary of the search traffic for 2009. Here are a few interesting results. Did you know that: * 1 in 13 search results pages displayed [...]

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Local Search Marketing Guides

January 2, 2010
Catch Search Marketing Logo

Recently I met Jeff Howard from Catch Search Marketing, a local search marketing agency based in Bethesda, MD. Jeff is a super nice and very talented guy who has created a lot of valuable content for small business owners. At his website he’s got a series of Local Business Guides that are packed full of [...]

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