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August 5, 2014

Factual Changes How to List Your Business

Update (3/29/2016)*: Factual is now accepting manual submissions and revisions here: https://factual.com/contact#update_add_business By now, we should all know the importance of having a consistent business…

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August 1, 2014

The Pigeon Mess . . .

Last Thursday, Google quietly released a new algo update targeting improved search results that had a local component (i.e. almost all legal related searches).  Note…

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July 30, 2014

The Worst Legal Marketing I’ve Seen

What follows is the most abjectly stupid online marketing I've come across. From a company that really should know better. I found a legal website proactively advertising…

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Pigeon Update
July 29, 2014

Latest Google Algo Change Hits Local: Pigeon

Google local results have long been a mess; complicated by semi-annual rebranding.  Frankly, local results have been a hodgepodge of mistakes and spam, so I'm…

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July 24, 2014

How We Replaced PPC with SEO and Saved $30,000

These are the results I love to share.  Back towards the beginning of the year, I spoke with someone who was concerned about  high PPC budget…

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July 16, 2014

1% For Good: His Heart My Voice

our people must learn to do good by meeting the urgent needs of others - Titus 3:14 I received an email request from a friend…

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July 15, 2014

Yelp Releases Nielsen Survey Data and Declares Itself King of Local Directories

A few days ago, Yelp released parts of a new Nielsen survey on their blog. The results, as stated by Yelp, were as follows: “When…

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June 30, 2014

The End of Google Authorship as We Know It

Last week, Google's John Mueller announced a huge shift in how Google Authorship will be displayed in search results going forward. If you're familiar with Google…

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June 17, 2014

The Holy Grail of SEO Tools

In the world of SEO, and online marketing, we use a lot of tools. In fact, I could create an entire blog dedicated to the top…

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