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Google Adding New Features to Maps & Google My Business

Google has been busy this year adding new features to their Google Maps and Google My Business (GMB) products. Recently they added another three new features that we are excited about. These new features were featured in an article by @MattSouthern on Search Engine Journal. Messaging from Maps and Search If you have a verified …

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Google Committing $340 Million in Google Ads credits to SMB Businesses.

How You Can Leverage It Google is extending over 1/3 Billion Dollars to help Local SMBs. Are you a local business that has used Google Ads to drive traffic to your website and your business? If so, you could be eligible to receive free ads on Google. Here’s what Google is committing. “We want to …

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The Benefits from the CoronaVirus and Covid 19

Here in California we face yet another week of “self quarantine” or isolation. #MissionViejo ChamberofCommerce events shut down. Tasty RBN luncheons and networking. Oh, how we miss you, our friends and associates! We have however, been very busy. Google Ads campaigns had to be completely overhauled to reflect the current conditions. New ads, keywords, demographics…etc. …

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10 Side Benefits of the Coronavirus Lockdown

The effects of the Coronavirus and Covid-19 have brought challenges and concerns that are unprecedented. These are no small things to be sure. Our jobs, businesses, financial security and indeed, our very lives have been compromised. And, for the most part, we in California at least have been “locked down”. “Self quarantined”. “Socially distanced”. Did …

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Want Better Search Rankings on Google? Then E-A-T…Fast!

The target for high rankings in Google search results is always shifting. A few foundational strategies have become ever more so clear in the past year. And these should be what you build your online presence upon in 2020. Remember to E-A-T No, don’t break your New Years resolution by loading up on junk food. …

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Social Media & Content Management. Doctor, Heal Thyself!

Blog Posting, Social Media and Email Marketing. We have been SO bad but we’re gonna get better, starting right now! I’m the worst! I preach to clients about the benefits and importance of consistently posting ideas, articles, promotions, etc. on social media, Emails and blog posts. Do I do it myself? Not much! I don’t …

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The Internet Marketing Frustrations of One Small Business Owner – Sound Familiar?

Last week one of my local search mentors, Mike Blumenthal, posted an experience that the owner of a small custom furniture maker has had with marketing his business on the Internet.  I was reminded of the many conversations I have had with other small businesses that have had, and continue to endure, the over-selling and …

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Google Home Service Ads Program Expanding

As reported recently by Joy Hawkins on Search Engine Land, Google is expanding it’s Home Services Ads (HSA) program.  This “incubation” program was test launched in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this year.  In October it was expanded into the Sacramento and San Diego markets where it went live on November 10th. We were contacted …

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You May Not Need A “Mobile Friendly” Website…yet.

Every time “mobile friendly” websites is mentioned among local business owners, I sense a very un-friendly attitude.  Or perhaps it is the look of confusion, frustration or the fear that they will have to invest in another website ! ?  Hey, we get it.  The website we created in the “good ‘ol days” displayed great on …

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How (949) Local Will Thrive in 2014

[schema type=”organization” orgtype=”LocalBusiness” url=”http://949local.com” name=”(949) Local Internet Marketing” description=”Internet marketing for small business in Orange County, CA” street=”26040 Acero” city=”Mission Viejo” state=”CA” postalcode=”92673″ country=”US” email=”info@949local.com” phone=”(949)573-2125″ ]HAPPY NEW YEAR!…Now get to work!! As 2013 came to a close did you ponder the course of your business over the the past year? Did you say to …

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