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Adwords Testing New “View Offers” Button

This is what the “view offers” button looks like: Today while searching for Storage in Toronto, I came across this strange Adwords coupon button.  It’s really cool and totally stands out, but when I login into Adwords I can’t find it an option for this anywhere. Has anyone seen this before or know how to [...]

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Software I Use

Using SENuke X to Automate SEO I am not usually someone who promotes affiliate stuff, however a totally awesome tool I use daily recently got even more amazing! When you do SEO for 10 or more clients you need automation on your side.   We have 90 plus client sites we promote now.   A tool we [...]

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Google’s “Like” Button

Google just announced the Google +1 . Will this be the social that works for Google?  Only time will tell. I thought it interesting to see how they are connecting all the data, go to your Google Dashboard ( http://www.google.com/dashboard/ ) and find the the section that says “Social Circle and Content” and look at [...]

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Adwords Tip for Small Businesses

I received a notification today in my Gmail.  I thought it was an interesting notification. Google’s specifically stated they are trying to improve Gmail by: Fewer irrelevant ads Gmail’s importance ranking applied to ads Offers and coupons for your local area What I think we should take note of is “Offers & Coupons for your [...]

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GetListed.org Gets All Canadian On Us!

I was pleasantly surprised when David Mihm emailed me a couple days ago with access to do some private testing on the Canadian version of GetListed.org.  As a Canadian Local Search Marketer I can tell you this is a real gift to Canadian Small Businesses who are interested in learning more about how to optimize [...]

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Zoom your business ahead with Social Bookmarking

The title of this post is a bit of a silly pun.  I run Zoomit.ca, which is a social bookmarking website just for Canadians, and a lot of online businesses are using this site (and many others like it – I will be recommending a few in this article) to build an online presence. What [...]

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The Ultimate List of Local SEO’ers

I just realized I have never put together a list of who I follow and read when it comes to Local SEO.   I have to say that a lot of what I know about local SEO has to do with these people and their blogs.  If it wasn’t for them openly sharing their local SEO [...]

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Website Design: What We Can Learn From Landing Pages

Landing pages are often used for tracking and converting leads/sales from paid traffic (such as: Pay-per-click, banner or sponsorship graphic ads, traffic sent from email campaigns, and so on).  In addition, most landing pages usually have single action goals.  This where there is no navigation and you either take action (like opt in) or bounce [...]

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Free Local Search Engine Marketing Seminar for Small Business in Toronto

THE SEMINAR HAS COME AND GONE, HOWEVER FOR THOSE WHO COULDN’T MAKE IT DUE TO TIMING OR LOCATION CHALLENGES, WE WERE ABLE TO VIDEO TAPE IT.   YOU CAN DOWN LOAD VIDEO FROM THESE TWO LINKS: PART 1 PART 2 I will be presenting at a 100% free small business online marketing seminar this coming Jan [...]

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Google Goggles or QR Codes…?

Google Goggles makes me want to get an Android phone.  I’m getting tired of my iPhone (especially since Rogers is consistently sold out of the iPhone 4) I thought QR codes would be the next mobile fad, but why use a QR Codes when you can just take a picture of the product, poster, whatever.  [...]

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