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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

Search engine optimization is THE most complex aspect of running a website. Designing a site is easy. Getting people to visit…well that's another story.

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

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.

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.

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

Local Google Advertising by way of Getting Google to see you, your sites, your "network" as being the "up and coming" authority site in your niche. My niche happens to be Regional Search Engine Marketing for brick and mortar businesses.

Google is the largest shopping center the world has ever seen. Google IS the Internet in your customers minds. If you are not ranked in the top ten, your No one knows (nor do they care) what your company name is… people type in two things and two things only: What they want Where they want to find it

Check your rankings often? If you're not paying attention you'll get a very false sense of security. News Bulletin: Google Doesn't Show Everybody The Same Results! It shows you what it thinks you want to see… Google's Personalized Search is a game changer.

Glowing Reviews… links are currency (a lot of people still don't know that, for example the Associated Press?) reviews are worth money… If you want something from me and don't have the scratch to pay for it, leave an honest testimonial on GoogleMaps and Yelp.com and we can work something out.

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.

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.

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?

there has been a lot of debate on whether the drop of a website's rank by 30 or 950 spots in Google is really a penalty for adopting shady SEO methods