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Search Engines Remain Top Source for Local Business Information

January 2, 2011

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With all the ways available to people to learn about local businesses, search engines on the internet are still the most popular. According to a January, 2011 national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project, produced in association with the John S. and James L. [...]

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Social Media Counts Towards SEO

December 14, 2010

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The rapid growth in popularity of social media has caught the attention of the major search engines like Google and Bing. In October 2009, Google Social Search was launched, which delivers results for the terms you searched from within your online social circle. By October, Bing implemented a new feature that delivers ‘Liked by Your [...]

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Effects of Google’s “Reasonable Surfer” Patent

August 6, 2010

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In a recent post by Eric Enge for Search Engine Land™ entitled SEO Implications Of Google’s “Reasonable Surfer” Patent, Eric explains that Google’s newly patented link analysis technology “basically states that all links on a page do not have to carry (or pass) the same weight. The concept is that the value a link should [...]

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