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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

A top listing in Google is what brings in revenue. Google IS the shopping center of the world, wake up and smell the coffee, if you're not listed in the top 10 of Google search results… you simply do not exist.

Virtually no one buys anything without first checking with Google to see if they can get a better deal, or to educate themselves about a product before they shell out a red cent, or to ensure a company they're considering doing business with has had any consumer complaints. In short, if your company isn't favorably positioned in Google, your company simply does not exist

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

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.

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

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.

Why do some Google Local Business Listings Rank but YOURS Is not at the Top? Google's algorithm is different for the Local Business Listings. Want YOURS to rank higher?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Real Estate SEO Real Estate Professional Frederick, MD Website: http://www.frederickwebpromotions.com Blog: http://www.localorganicsearchranking.com Phone: 240 644-7530 About David Bruce Local Google Advertising Consultant Google Places Consultant Regional Search Engine Marketing Managed Company Facebook Pages

Someone's Got to Answer The Twitter… think of it as if it was a replacement for the phone. People Twitter FROM their phone, they want something to eat in a new city, they don't use the yellowpages, they don't even use Google.. they Yelp Yelping is now a verb just like Google is a verb You want to stay in business? really? You want to keep your job? Someone has got to tell the boss what he (or she) does not want to hear: Someone's Got to Answer The Twitter Now Hiring: Twitterceptionist!

Here's what needs to happen before we can start on your Local SEO

*SEO Copywriting vs Writing For a Human Audience*
Much is written about crafting quality content and improving your websites ranking in Google. Typically a marketing department (mistakenly) assumes their task is to write compelling copy to attract a human audience... ultimately it is.

*Googlebot