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Google has begun releasing short 2-3min video tutorials on some of the most basic of questions related to search and your Web site. We have decided to feature these quick tutorials to be sure that ALL of your questions are answered!

Today’s question relates to the basic tenet of attracting Search Engines to your site: Content! By creating relevant, customer-oriented, and fresh content – you will create a quality website and a niche for yourself. This video also touches on the importance of ‘pruning’ your content for ease of navigation. This is an important step in creating a Search Engine friendly and customer friendly site. Take a minute, literally one minute and 23 seconds, to view this short tutorial today.

Google is still trying to unravel the mess that they've made of their local system and sometimes it seems that it might be getting worse rather than better.

The latest is that Google has given an official recommendation that if you are a service area business that does NOT accept customers at your location and have also created and verified or merged your place page with your local G+ page then you need to delete your G+local listing. Sounds scary now doesn't it. Well, we will let Google explain it to you themselves. Here's a quote from their Help pages:

Are you a Service...

Testing is a critical part of any marketing strategy—and social media marketing is no exception. I'm a huge proponent of not only collecting data, but using it to see what works (and doesn't work) with your target audience. After all, digital marketing campaigns aren't stale, static strategies—instead, they continually shift and evolve based on new tools, best practices and what your audience tells you they want.

Some types of marketing, like email marketing, make it easy to test various components so that you can quickly gather and analyze data with built-in tools availab...

The Internet is designed to keep businesses on their toes and Groupon is no exception. They're smart enough to realize that they need to evolve or they will shortly become yesterday's news and with that in mind Groupon has officially taken the jump into being something more than a Daily Coupon site.

Like Foursquare announced late 2012, Groupon is stepping out of their little nitch to become a Local Marketplace. You can now go to their site and search for a deal on something specific. Let's say you really want to get your carpet cleaned in your house. Before you'd have to patient...

Here is the February 2013 installment of 'What's New in Local Search'. It's been another busy month so I won't waste your time and am just going to dive right in.

• Foursquare has almost removed the ability to be anonymous, but not really. It's going to show your first and last name, but it is possible to go by a false first and last name. At least Foursquare does insure that you've actually visited the place by checking, though. Watch for this trend in all the spaces that enable ratings and reviews. There's just too much suspect review content out there and consumers know it. They are seeking others' opinions in places that publish the most trusted reviews, like Hotels.com whi...

Google has begun releasing short 2-3min video tutorials on some of the most basic of questions related to search and your Web site. We have decided to feature these quick tutorials to be sure that ALL of your questions are answered!

Today's question has to do with how you can know for sure if Google has indexed or found your new Web site or page and served it up in it’s search results. This quick 2min video answers all of your questions by teaching you about the simple ‘site.yourdomain.com” search command. They also go into detail about blocked pages from a mistake in your robots.txt and even filing a reconsideration request.

See the video below for complete details directly from Google so that you can be sur...

The argument that 'Mobile is the Future' has won so completely that it's more fact than fiction. The world is so obsessed with the latest gadget that it becomes worldwide news when the iPhone 5's mapping system falls apart after dropping Google's system to go out on their own.

It's obvious enough to anyone who has done a side by side comparison of the two mapping systems that ...