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Business has just caught on the the SEO value of Google+ Pages.
Google+ like Facebook has both personal profiles and company pages.

Most small businesses are aware their company needs a social media presence, most people have personal Facebook pages and assume it's easy to create one for their c

If you Google "real estate in (your geographical area)" or "homes for sale in X", it is depressing to see the big names gobble up most of the 10 available Google "slots".

Select just about any geographical area and type in "homes for sale in X" and you'll probably see a top listing in Google for, in this order:

* homes.com
* zillow.com
* realestate.yahoo.com

Those "real estate portals" usually take up much of the available marketing "real estate" on the front page of any given local Google search results page for this important keyword phrase.

So how does a small time blogger compete against these juggernauts with the full time SEO staff at their disposal?

how are you going to get a fighting chance against those high Google page rank domains? Long tail keywords and... a big boost:

Take the RSS feed url from your activerain blog and add it to the list below

Twitter as Ad Blaster or Serious Blog Platform? I have to fess up… I didn't really know what I wanted to do with twitter for the longest time. As a SEO professional I have a fiduciary responsibility to my clients to get their marketing message "out there" as much as humanly possible. The O in SEO is misleading, our industry has actually evolved quite a bit since the phrase Search Engine Optimization was coined almost a decade ago. The "O" is for onpage or on site "Optimization", the notion that one could "optimize" a given website to entice Google to "like it more". In the years that have passed, off page is where the real results show up in terms of improving a company website's Google ranking. (gratuitous keyword insertion intended, I DO want you to find this in Google). Link Building is an important, albeit controversial part of improving a website's positioning in search results. Industrial Strength Link Building Back links pointing to a main target used to be the single most important method of fulfilling our clients a clients desired result, social media has muddied the waters a bit but the extra "eyeballs on your site" that social media provides does not diminish the fact that all those social media links are still "back links" in Googlebot's eyes. Having your url posted in either yours or someone else's tweets does get noticed by and indexed by Google. I fear however, that that url rolls off the person's twitter page so fast sometimes I suspect Google isn't willing to give that as much credence as having your link show up on someone's page and stay there for awhile (or indefinitely) Most of you do not remember the early days of internet marketing, remember FFA sites? Free For All Sites, they used to be effective, what ever they began as they evolved into a spam friendly zone. You could post your link to an FFA site for free… the only payment required was that you had to allow EVERY other member t

What? Your company doesn't have a Company Facebook Page Yet? Company Facebook Pages, they're free and show up in Google

On page optimization for improved ranking of your company website in Local Google Search Results. Improvement of ranking within both local organic search listings AND improvement of ranking in Google Local Business Listings. Off page industrial strength back link building services available.

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Companies pay us to get their website to show up in the top 10 search results of Google (and other search engines). We have a team of professional bloggers, experts in social media, web design professionals, off site promotion staff and so on.

If you post to Stumbleupon and immediately get 100 "page views" to your post, look again, look at your Google Analytics report: of the 100 you might get 4 that stayed on your site for more than 12 seconds. Does a 12 second visit constitute a "real visitor"? If someone clicks and clicks away in less than 30 seconds, were they going to buy anything?