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10 Free Holiday Shopping Apps, via Best Buy

10 Free Holiday Shopping Apps, via Best Buy

Thinking About Creating a Website? What You Need to Know

Thinking About Creating a Website? What You Need to Know

Here are some quick tips followed by articles that should help you choose the right web designer and SEO team: If you look at a portfolio and all the sites look very similar you can’t expect a unique or dynamic site If they offer SEO and their clients’ site have “About us”, “Our site”, “Home” [...]

Restaurants, Listen Up! You Have Work to Do!

Restaurants, Listen Up! You Have Work to Do!

With the Google Places change you have some work to do and I am going to give you some recommendations. Your Website You need to make sure that your website home page is set up properly. I say this because Google has integrated the organic results with the Google Places accounts.  See example below: Google [...]

Are You Planning Ahead for Your Business? - Online

Are You Planning Ahead for Your Business? – Online

One major mistake I see businesses making is not planning ahead. They look at the now and the coming month, but they are not looking ahead 6 months to year down the road. This is a major mistake and can end up costing you a lot of money. Your Website We see businesses all the [...]

SEO Aware #14 out of Top 20 SEO Blogs, Wikio

SEO Aware #14 out of Top 20 SEO Blogs, Wikio

We were thrilled to be in the Wikio top SEO  list back in May and we were thrilled to have the #14 spot. I guess we have retained that spot because they emailed us yesterday and said the top 2o would be published today and we are still #14. I am thrilled with that Here [...]

Google Has Changed and Your Online Marketing Strategies HAVE to Change

Google Has Changed and Your Online Marketing Strategies HAVE to Change

We tell everyone we talk to that the SEO and Internet marketing business is ever changing and it is. Google’s latest move with Google Places is just one example of this. However, it is a major example and a major change. If you are hoping to maintain traffic and conversions with this change there is [...]

SEO Aware will be Closed until Nov 4th

SEO Aware will be Closed until Nov 4th

We are taking a break for the Blue Glass FL conference. Current client can email us if necessary, but if you are contacting us for services you most likely won’t hear from us until Nov. 4th.

5 Questions Answered by Alan Bleiweiss - SEO Audits, Websites and More

5 Questions Answered by Alan Bleiweiss – SEO Audits, Websites and More

#1 – What is the biggest mistake you see businesses making when creating websites? Could it be not focusing on SEO before creation of the site? Long before SEO, I was Director of web development at a major web firm in New York. So for almost 16 years I’ve seen a lot of crazy things [...]

On Webmaster Radio's Webcology Today, Discussing New Google Places

On Webmaster Radio’s Webcology Today, Discussing New Google Places

Jim, Dave and Melissa discussed the major changes google has made in the last two days. You can listen to the podcast here. http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/webcology/2010/google-places-incorporated-into-organic-serps/ Read our recent article Google Makes A Major Change and Destroys Their Own Search Engine

Google Makes Major Change and Destroys Their Own Search Engine

Google Makes Major Change and Destroys Their Own Search Engine

Everyone loved Google. I know I did. Then it turned into some money hungry machine despite that fact that it was making tons of money already. Those of us that are in the industry have seen google doing some things that clearly show all they care about is making money and giving good information to [...]

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