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Patrick Hare

Bing and Yahoo! Search Engine Results

Get Ready for Bing Results on Yahoo!

If you monitor search engine traffic to your website, you may notice a distinct change in the coming weeks. Bing™ is set to start delivering results for Yahoo!® searches, and this is going to have an impact on anyone who gets visitors from either of these search engines. When the transition is complete, you’re still [...]

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Small Business Websites That Save You Time and Money

Design a Website That Saves You Time and Money

The Internet has been popular for long enough that many people have forgotten one of the key reasons for having a website: saving time and money by helping customers help themselves. If you can remember the business environment before the late 1990s, you may recall that customer service was a much more “hands-on” affair, and [...]

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Website Listings on Search Engines

When Should I Expect to See My Website on Google?

Whenever people build new websites, they hope to find themselves on Google, Yahoo!®, and Bing™ as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, having a site on the Internet does not guarantee search engine placement, even though the engines are very good at finding new sites and indexing them. As a new site owner, it’s easy to get [...]

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Top Ranking in Local Search Results

How to Get (and Keep) a Top Spot in Local Search Results

If you do a search on Google, Bing™, or Yahoo!® for a keyword like “tires,” you might end up seeing a local map with local tire sellers listed above the regular search results. This is great news if you’re a tire retailer who happens to be on the list, but it may not be good [...]

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Google Mayday Update and SEO

Did the Google Mayday Update Sink Your Search Engine Traffic or Rescue It?

Sources in the world of search engine optimization (SEO) will tell you that Google makes up to 500 updates to its algorithm every year. The Google algorithm is essentially a complex set of rules that determine which websites get to be at the top of search results, and which ones end up on pages two [...]

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