Archive for April, 2009
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By Michael Dorausch, DC Tips on finding local chiropractors that meet the qualities being sought by prospective patients. There were two notes on my desk with zip codes for chiropractors being sought in different parts the United States. One note read: Doris 92078 San Marcus and the other simply said Chiropractor 15683. It’s easy to think that it would be no problem finding a chiropractor in the 15683 postal code area. Performing a search for the postal code only, I see that it’s the a
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The iPhone took top honors in JD Power’s influential consumer satisfaction study, smartphone edition . This doesn’t come as a big surprise, and it was mostly a clean sweep across the main categories (features, ease of operation, physical design, etc.). The only place it didn’t kick everyone’s butt was “battery life” — where BlackBerry and LG had the highest scores. If it wasn’t apparent to device manufacturers already, the iPhone has set the bar. We’re seeing others rise to the occasion, and
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As some of the people who read this blog or follow me on Twitter know, I was at the Yellow Pages Association conference on Tuesday speaking on panel about blogging. Then I took the red eye and went straight into OMMA Mobile in NY on Wednesday and spoke on mobile search. It was exhausting but also very interesting to see two conferences and two industries back-to-back like this. I was struck by how radically different the two cultures are: yellow pages publishers and their vendors and mobile
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by Steve Sanger Backlinks are a paramount feature needed if your business website is going to become successful. Increase the SEO of your business site by following our tips to get great links and increase customers today. Small is more flexible. Use the fact that only you take the decisions to your advantage. Your able to react to the latest breaking news before anyone else and notice changes in customer trends. Then just get that information published on your blog posts before the bigg
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by Steve Sanger Backlinks are a paramount feature needed if your business website is going to become successful. Increase the SEO of your business site by following our tips to get great links and increase customers today. Make use of your Flexibility. A small business has the advantage over the larger competition in its flexibility. A large corporation has to trawl through meetings, red tape, managers, sub managers etc. to even order a roll of sellotape. You as a small business can move muc
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by Steve Sanger To get your business moving, you need some good quality backlinks to your website. This should be the first SEO project for your business. This article explains how to get links for your small business for a low cost. Small is more flexible. Use the fact that only you take the decisions to your advantage. Your able to react to the latest breaking news before anyone else and notice changes in customer trends. Then just get that information published on your blog posts befo
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After interviewing Seth Godin last week, I had the incredible opportunity to hear, for the second time, Malcolm Gladwell speak at a conference. He was keynote speaker on the second day of the 2009 Yellow Pages Association conference. His insights were, again, spot on, right in the current zeitgeist. Through amazing story-telling talent, he managed to explain at a high-level what was the main opportunity for the Yellow Pages industry. Through the story of David Sarnoff, a RCA employee
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Verizon Wireless launched a global version of its popular VZ Navigator service. Beginning today, VZ Navigator Global: Provides business and leisure travelers the ability to find locations and access turn-by-turn directions in North America and Western Europe, including Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom – additional countries will be added to the service throughout the year; Alleviates stress or confusion caused by reading road signs or dire
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A surge in the annual growth of local search far outpaced growth of overall Web search, according to a study from the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), conducted by comScore, Inc. The study found that local search - the practice of using online search tools to find local businesses, products, or services - grew 58% in 2008, reaching an annual total of 15.7 billion searches. By comparison, overall core US web searches grew at a much smaller rate of 21% year-over-year, nearing 137 billion searches b
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It seems Google is in a state of flux. Not a day goes by when there isnt something new to play around with on some part of the Google playground. With many other channels seeing significant changes it hasnt come as a surprise therefore that Google rolled out a number of improvements to the Keyword Tool interface. The previous options have been replaced with two columns, one for local search volume for the previous month and one for global search volume: The newly added Local Search V
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