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Assuming you’ve read my post about what a directory is, I’ll spare you the replay. You know what a directory is but how about a “local directory”? You’re a genius if you said it’s a directory that specializes in local business listings. See the Google SERP below? Take a good look and tell me what you see. The search terms used were “printing 75229″. You get bonus points if you get this one right.
The Google …
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Given enough money a specialist medical professional could do blood tests sufficient to tell you exactly which vitamins and minerals you should be taking and in what quantities you should be consuming each of them. A highly optimized vitamin regimen is preferred but in the absence of the necessary funds or time or both, a good multi-vitamin is far better than nothing at all. Such is the case with your website value developement. A costly, …
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Google’s algorithm takes over 200 variables into account, including Page Rank, to determine how much love to show your website., The Page Rank system works much like the Richter scale does. An earthquake with a Richter of 2.0 is 10 times, that’s 10 times, as strong as a 1.0. A 3.0 is 10 times stronger than a 2.0 and 100 times stronger (10 x 10) than a 1.0.
While I’m not sure of the exact …
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Check the logs of any well traveled website and you’ll likely find that 40% or more of all searches include the name of a city in the search term or phrase used. That’s quite a large percentage of the total so what does it mean? It means that almost half of all people that use Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines have figured out that by including the name of the municipality in which …
