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		<title>Does Google Trust Yelp More Than Merchant Circle Now?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve owned a local business or have been providing Local SEO services to clients for half a decade or more, I&#8217;m sure you can recall a time, not long ago, when Merchant Circle had a dominant presence in Google&#8217;s first page results for local-type queries. Back in 2009, when Mike Blumenthal penned this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nitty Gritty Of City Landing Pages For Local Businesses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own a local business and are investigating ways to utilize the web to promote your company, chances are, you&#8217;ve come across discussions of strategies involving city landing pages. First, let&#8217;s clarify&#8230; &#160; What Are City Landing Pages? &#160; City landing pages are commonly defined as pages you create on your website to target [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caring For Clients In The Caring Professions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The above is a screenshot from our new client&#8217;s website, TheOaksDementia.com, a skilled nursing facility caring for Dementia and Alzheimer&#8217;s patients in Petaluma, California. So far, we&#8217;ve revamped the website and migrated it to WordPress, provided copy editing, are hoping to add some great photos soon, and are about to begin on our Local Search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013′s Top Local Search Ranking Factor: Honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out with the old year, on with the new, and local business owners like you are asking themselves how they can earn the most visible possible presence in the Google-dominated local search engine results in 2013. Waltzing our way out of a 2012 that was fraught with penalties targeting all kinds of iffy practices, your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acquisition of GetListed By SEOmoz A Match Made In Local Heaven!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just so excited today about the news of the acquisition by SEOmoz of David Mihm&#8217;s GetListed.org. I see big things in 2013 for Local SEO as a results of this brilliant acquisition. On a personal level, I am delighted by this news, because I have had the pleasure of being acquainted with both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Vote America!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put down the mouse, put away the cell phone, free your mind of work, step out of the office and vote today, America. Walk down your American street beneath the bright fall trees and exercise your right to have a say in history. People have fought and died on American soil for that right. Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rudiments Of Local SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was truly gratified by the industry recognition of my recent article, The Zen of Local SEO and what I&#8217;m writing today is a follow-up post. In The Zen of Local, I discussed the futility of trying to write a static tactical guide for implementation of a Local Search campaign, because of the constant changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zen Of Local SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever searched the web for a totally solid guide to implementing Local SEO and come up empty handed? There&#8217;s an excellent reason for this. Unlike traditional SEO, in which ongoing new tactics can be added to a base of actions that have been reasonably similar for more than a decade, Local SEO exists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Already Know Your Local Business, I Still Need To Know Your Hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like a no-brainer, but highly visible inclusion of your shop&#8217;s hours of operation on your website should never be overlooked. I&#8217;ve run into several instances of missing hours lately, so think of this a helpful reminder that any local business currently engaged in building a new website or improving an existing one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Ideas for Local Window Dressing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personally, I can never walk by a Chinese restaurant without stopping to read the menu. Sometimes, it&#8217;s pasted in the window. Other times, it is enshrined in a little wooden box, perhaps accompanied by newspaper clippings or semi-fuzzy photos of appetizing fare. Drawn like a moth to candle flame, I want to see what the [...]]]></description>
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