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Local listings are an increasingly large part of search. Google places results now pop up at the top of search results automatically. This is good news for local businesses. If you have a physical location, you better take full advantage of the opportunity!

You should always start by claiming your business on Google Places, then work your way down by submitting information to Yahoo Local, YellowPages.com, and maybe even Bing Local. From there, you want to convince search engines that your ...

Even in this post-panda world there is a place for link building through articles. If you have unique and high quality content, then there are a lot of free article directories out there that will help you promote your business or website.

That’s something that we talk about in chapter six, the link building chapter, of our SEO for WordPress book.

But which directories are good and which are junk? There are a lot of lists of free article directories out ...

10 Things Every New Link Builder Should Know.

Even though link building is one of the most basic concepts of SEO, it’s definitely not easy. I’ve seen several people new to link building get frustrated to the point that they just give up and try to move on to other areas of SEO. Leaving the link building aspect to contractors or link brokers. I’ve put together a list to give ...

So, you hired an SEO firm that has promised you hundreds or thousands of inbound links–but how can you tell if they are outsourcing your important marketing to a foreign country? Of course, outsourcing isn’t a problem in itself, but if the quality of the backlinking submissions suffers, your SEO firm will leave a trail of bad grammar, misspellings, and poorly written descriptions to represent your company and website all over the ‘net.

We run a few internet ...

I love local business directories as an SEO tool. If your business has any form of brick and mortar operation, then you naturally draw on a local clientele. At TastyPlacement, we do a lot of SEO work for local small businesses. Local businesses can win big with local business postings.

Typically, local business posting will outrank just about any other page on the internet because of the tremendous pagerank power that a site like Yahoo Local or Hotfrog enjoys. And, Google ...

As an SEO professional, I hear often from clients that they formerly paid big bucks for entry into local business directories such as YellowPages.com or eLocalListing. These services are often marketed in boiler rooms, and the lion’s share of the fees the uninformed customers pay go to sales commissions.

When people ask me, “is a paid YellowPages.com ad worth it?”, I always answer, “Is YellowPages.com bigger than Google? Because a Google local listing is free.” That’s not a truly fair answer, ...