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Small Business Blogging – Community and Collaboration

Posted by Michelle on September 5, 2009 with 0 Comments

This is the ninth installment of our ten part series about the benefits of Small Business Blogging. Part One – Small Business Blogging Allows Your Customers to Get to Know You Part Two – Small Business Blogging Allows You To Get to Know Your Customers Part Three – New Content means Google Love Part Four [...]

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Why can’t I find my website on a search engine?

Posted by Michelle on July 26, 2009 with 2 Comments

photo credit: knuton I recently blogged about this,  but a discussion over the weekend with my husband brought this to the forefront of my mind again. My husband was speaking to someone within our local community who creates websites on the side.  He recently created a website for a local business.  My husband out of [...]

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Use Caution with Merchant Circle

Posted by Michelle on April 30, 2009 with 0 Comments

Merchant circle touts itself as a site  “dedicated to helping local businesses get more customers quickly, easily and cost effectively.”  This may or may not be true but there have been issues regarding potentially fake complaints.  You can read all about it and more importantly read the comments on the blog post Strange goings-on with [...]

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Local Businesses need to Blog

Posted by Michelle on March 15, 2009 with 0 Comments

Yes, blog. One of the biggest issues with most local business websites is the lack of content.  Simply having a description of your business, about us, contact us and services page is not enough.  I know of one Search Engine Optimization expert stated that even local business websites should have HUNDREDS of pages. No, you [...]

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Increase the likelihood of getting indexed by setting up a blog

Posted by Michelle on March 12, 2009 with 0 Comments

A misnomer to many launching a new website is how or more specifically when a website will be indexed (found) by the search engines. Many assume just by placing a site out on the web it guarantees your site will be found. That is not the case. In fact Google™ states on their website submission [...]

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