10 SEO Blogs To Read

Posted on January 30, 2015 Written by Michael Williams

SEO marketing techniques and requirements are in a constant state of change.

Small business owners need to know what works and what used to work but doesn’t anymore and keeping up requires a lot of time.

I like to remind my clients that what worked yesterday, may not work today and what works today, might not work tomorrow.

Yes, it can be a bit frustrating especially if you only use White Hat SEO strategies like we do at Green Melon Marketing. Yes, black hat works, but usually for only a short time. If you are interested in creating a long term presence with your Internet marketing, don’t use them – ever.

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Understanding Consumers’ Local Search Behavior

Posted on January 29, 2015 Written by Michael Williams

In May 2014 Google released its study “Understanding Consumers’ Local Search Behavior”.

In it contains many important findings on search intent by consumers looking for local information while using either a smart phone or computer/tablet. You can read Google’s full report by clicking Here.

If you are a business that has a local market do you need to approach your marketing as if you are competing with a regional or national reach?

Let me ask you?

How far will your customers travel to get to you?

Perhaps your business is a retail operation, salon, restaurant, dentist, accountant, lawyer, or repair shop how many miles will your customer drive to get to you?

How far will you travel to get to them?

Maybe your business requires to go to someone’s home or place of business such as a roofing or A/C contractor, a real estate broker, insurance agency or pool service how many miles from your place of business will you be willing to drive to get to a customer? [Read more…]

CE Travel Planners is Our Newest Client.

Posted on January 28, 2015 Written by Michael Williams

This is a link to a press release from CE Travel Planners announcing our working together to generate more calls and inquiries from their online presence. They are very cool people and it’s a pleasure to have them as clients.

Cruise Planners’ Newest Fort Lauderdale Franchise

Owners choose Fort Lauderdale SEO Agency for Mobile & Local Search Marketing

Click HERE to continue reading press release.

Local Search Engine Directories

Posted on January 27, 2015 Written by Michael Williams

As a small business owner you know that every dollar spent is one less dollar you make in profit.

You probably know that local search marketing is here to stay and spending money on marketing – both online and offline can be a very good investment of time and money. If you have the time and if you can do something yourself and get the same results as a professional company then why pay them. It’s a dollar less spent, right?

Time, its all about the time. And, money.

You’ve done tons of research about using Local, Mobile, Social Media SEO to get onto page 1 of Google, Bing and Yahoo! organic search results. You probably have found 100’s if not 1,000’s of ideas and suggestions on how to improve your search engine results.

Perhaps because you have the time you can implement these ideas yourself you will take on some Internet marketing initiatives.

So, where should you start? Which ideas will work best for you? Which ones should you do first? Which ones will give you the fastest results? How many hours will it take you? How do you measure success? Why so many questions?

How will you muddle through the mounds of information and recommendations to decide what are the most important actions you need to take right now to get better search page results?

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