If you are like most people, you keep most of your data nowadays only on computer, in digital format. Paper files, photograph albums and music tapes are consigned to history. In other words, all your life is on your computer. So what would you do if you lost it all? The idea is frightening enough [...]
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In today’s ultra-competitive business environment, being profitable requires much more than simply persuading people to buy your product, or use your service. If these customers only buy once and don’t come back, your business is unlikely to succeed. This is why, whatever the nature of your business, customer care is of paramount importance. One of [...]
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Got a call from a client today. Nothing unusual about that; it happens all the time! What was unusual was that he was concerned about a call he had just received. Someone purporting to be an agent for Google called my client (let’s call him Pete) to let him know that Google had brought to [...]
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What is Pinterest? What is SEO? When you know what these two things are, you could be on your way to increasing your business profile. Or is business your point? Maybe you just want ideas from other browsers to help you complete a project. Many consumers use Pinterest for both of these reasons and their [...]
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Our SEO Web Magic team has had an interesting year, what with all the animals that Google threw at us. Evil Pandas and dastardly Penguins were sent to test our resolve. When the Google beast were unleashed some of our sites suffered a ranking loss, and some were hit harder than others. For instance our [...]
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These days we all have multiple computing devices. Laptops, tablets, smartphones, PC and Mac, and it can be a huge issue to ensure that you have the file you need right now on the device you are currently working on. File sizes these days are larger than ever. Trying to find a way to send [...]
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As you can see from our home page businesses that have their websites sitting at the top of Google get over 40% of all the traffic for their particular keyword. Given more than 90% of potential customers search for their products and services online these days that is a massive advantage for any business. “The [...]
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In a recent post we discussed the big ‘secret’ of getting your Google Plus Local listing to show up on the first page of Google. For many local searches Google will show up to 7 local listings. You know the ones with the red pin? We call it the Google 7 Pack. Being in the [...]
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We are in an economy that is highly competitive. Many businesses have reduced their marketing budget substantially. Personally I disagree with this strategy as the core to any business is to bring on new customers. If you do not have sufficient customers, you do not have a business. But whatever marketing budget you have, you [...]
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Your Google Places listing is an extremely valuable online asset for your business and an important part of SEO Web Magic’s SEO strategy. One of the most important actions you can take as a business owner is to get at least 5 reviews on your Google Places listing. Why 5? One of the recent changes [...]
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