Stay Away!!!
These services are attractive to the backlink fiend. Why not get 1000 backlinks for $99? The reason is quite simple: you will gain absolutely no value from these links. In this post we will discuss the four reasons why you want to stay away from these services at all costs.
Stop Duplicate Content
If you use a content management system like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or OsCommerce you may be suffering from duplicate content issues. These can be really difficult problems to solve. Sometimes it requires complicated .htaccess rewrite solutions and endless hours finding links to nofollow. But now there is an easier solution for most of these problems.
Link building Is A Rollercoaster
One of the most critical SEO efforts is external link building. This simply means getting other websites to link back to your site. But before you go hog wild getting as many backlinks as you can, read our post on how to do this SEO art effectively.
Help Google Find Your Treasure
Since Google is the most popular search engine at this present time, it’s imperative that Google can properly search your website. The only way to know whether or not Google is crawling your site completely is by submitting a Google XML site map through Google Webmaster Tools.
Add Youtube To Your Marketing Plan
Youtube is one of the most visited websites on the internet. It’s also a search engine. I suggest you put your business on it. Although this idea of using Youtube to increase your online presence is an obvious no brainer, it’s not always easy to get videos produced. If you have someone on board who can video edit, you should consider allocating some time for them to produce videos. Otherwise you can find decent videographers in your area who are relatively inexpensive (see craigslist.org). Here are the reason’s why you should go the Youtube route:
Do you have a resistance force?
This morning I went to Target to pick up an expandable shoe rack. On my way out of the store there was a brand new Ford Mustang parked in the parking lot. It still had the information paper on the passenger side window, listing the fuel economy, engine size, and other features. Someone from Huntington Beach Ford had parked it in the lot of Target to attract eyeballs that would not normally stop by the dealership.
Do You Know How Many People Visit Your Site?
Some of you have just created your first website or blog. And I bet you want to know how many people are visiting your site. Thanks to Google, you can easily add a simple snippet of code to track the number of visitors that come to your site and learn how they got there.
Can't Find Your Site On The Search Engines?
A lot of sites we run across just need a little SEO kick to get listed in the search engines. For some reason these sites just can’t be found anywhere on Google, Yahoo or MSN. We always here from the client, “We should be ranking somewhere for this term!”. After about 30 seconds of investigating, we usually spot the problem.
If you are running a business that has a physical address, adding your business to Google Maps (Places) is IMPERATIVE. However, there is more to Google Maps than just adding your listing.
1. Don’t Spam
I know a lot of business owners who want to try to add their listing to multiple addresses all over town. DON’T DO THIS. You are not going to trick Google. In the end, you’ll get your business from never showing up on the map again! Besides, why would you want to upset potential customers with sending them to the wrong location? That’s just bad for business.
It’s worth so much more to play by the rules. Having your listing show up is far more valuable then never having it show up. We’ll show you why right now:
2. Have O.C. Search Complete Your Google Places and Business Directory Submissions
Why? Because we have helped many local businesses gain a far more valuable return because we know how to do it correctly. There is quite a lengthy process to doing the Google Map submission that goes beyond Google Places. There is also an order by which one should add their business to the correct directories. We specialize in this process and it will pay for itself many times over.
If your business is already showing up at position “A” on Google Maps for the city your business is in, then that’s excellent. You should contact us to make sure you stay there. 
We will also make sure you are getting to most out of your listing and improve the authenticity of your submission. Finally, we can drive even more traffic from your business listing submissions.
If your business is not on Google Maps, call us right now.
Here is a quick calculation of the ROI created by a top Google Map listing:
One of our customers now gets 15 new clients a month and 45% of those clients come from their Google Map listing. Therefore they get 6 new customers a month from Google Maps. This is provides an additional $25,000 of revenue a year for this particular local business.
Honestly, we hate sounding pitchy. If you read any of our other posts, we don’t try to get customers to call us. But we really believe that this service we provide for small local businesses is a “no brainer”. Give us a call and let’s get some business stirred up today. (714) 725-8101
You can get the process started right away by purchasing our Business Listing Service through Paypal right now:
This post has been updated. This is what we wrote last year:
This is a very important and often overlooked SEO technique for small businesses. It didn’t really occur to me how important this submission was until my friend who is a dentist asked me how he could get his practice to show up on Google Maps. After doing a little searching I found the submission link for this service:
The ABCs of SEO
Another way to say it is “Always Bang-Out Content”. These simple ABCs of search engine marketing are really the only focus you need to worry about after your website is properly set up.
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