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Mastering the art of SEO takes precise decision-making skills, science, research, and above all-experience. Look for guarantees that promise performance, not a particular time frame or low-cost lure. It used to take 6 weeks to see measurable ranking improvement, now it can take as long as 12 weeks to see improvement. Time frames are subject to change as often as Google makes changes to it's algorithm. In 2009 Google made 20 changes, some subtle, others not so subtle. * Don't fall for the 30 days or less trap: This is bogus. There's no such thing as instant gratification in the world of SEO. Months of work and adjustments go into a successful ranking. Just because your case takes longer doesn't make it any less worthwhile; patience pays off with legitimate SEO.

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Google will spider the old, inaccurate listing and might store the wrong data in it's cache. Google has a vested interest in ensuring Yahoo stays afloat: the Obamunists would have a anti-trust field day if Yahoo "went away". Search is THE number one ultimate tool that nearly everyone uses virtually every day. "Google It" is now considered to be a verb, everyone knows what that means. * 80% percent of all internet traffic begins with a search engine; what is more dramatic is that even when users know what they're looking for many prefer to type into the search box of some search engine rather than type a URL into the browser. * 73% of internet users perform searches several times a week. * Local search and local results constitute 84% of total search volume. * 81% of users begin their internet experience at the search engine. Astounding Fact: even when people know where they want to go, they still type a query into a search box! The search box seems more inviting than the browser url box, many people aren't even aware that they can type a url into the browser, the assumption is that a search box is preferable to the browser

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

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Wordpress.com is an often overlooked blog platform that is amazingly effective in improving local small business advertising SEO efforts. Frederick Web Promotions in Frederick Maryland uses wordpress.com with devastating results... devastating for the competitors of our SEO clients

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If that keyword phrase does not include YOUR Geographic Area... You will not show up in Local searches.

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 your customers leave glowing reviews of your product or service on the link provided your site will climb in rank.

is there a way to get our ignored links to carry more weight with big G? There is a method I found and am testing right now: RSS feeds create an RSS feed for your lessor links and ping thm. What is meant by Ping your Blog? Go to http://www.pingler.com and follow the easy instructions So how do you find which links are there but not being counted? Here's one way: Use Yahoo's site explorer to see what your back links are that Yahoo found. Now type your url into Google and hunt for back links that aren't in Yahoo's site explorer.