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Tackle Google Places like a pro!

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With Google claiming that over 20% of all searches are for local businesses or places, they have recently made big changes to their SERPs (search engine results pages), by displaying Google Places results where it feels the query may be locally influenced.

This has led to a lot of natural national or international sites that do not have a physical location, where the search origin is losing out on listings, and therefore traffic. But what if you do have a physical location or locations and you still aren’t listed? Well, here are my sure-fire tips to dominating the Google Places rankings! continue reading

GroupOn Added To Google Portfolio?

Speculation has been rife in recent weeks that Google are to purchase local deals site GroupOn, but would appear that the deal has now been done with Vator.tv releasing details …

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Facebook & MySpace To Join?

Mashable are reporting of a possible merger between MySpace & Facebook this evening at around 8pm GMT. The invite Mashable and others have received states: “Please join us for an …

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Facebook To Launch an Email Service Today?

There are currently strong rumours that Facebook is to launch its own email service – automatically giving all of its users @facebook.com or @fb.com addresses. The announcement of the service, …

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Matt Cutts Offers Insight Into Future of Web Spam

I have just read with interest Barry Schwartz’s post on Search Engine Land – Key Takeaways From Google’s Matt Cutts Talk At PubCon. As the title suggests the post is …

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Google Roll Out Live Preview in Search Results

Google have this week begun rolling out a live preview function on their search engine results pages. This new feature is made to be unobtrusive, meaning that the preview is …

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