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The importance of Google Maps ranking for your business

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Business visibility is an important factor that contributes to the growth of a brand or business. Business owners with products and services would like to expand their network to cater for more customers beyond their locality.

One way to achieve this goal is through the use of Google Maps SEO.  Let’s say you run a hair salon in Jacksonville, Florida, you can increase your brand visibility with GMB (Google My Business), possibly occupying one of the top 3 spots.

This customer engagement strategy helps list your business at the top page when people in Jacksonville search for “hair salon near me.”

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Keyword Difficulty Accuracy: SEMrush Vs 8 SEO Tools

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In SEO Marketing, Keyword research is believed to be the foundation of any successful campaign.

Whether you are working to rank a blog post or an eCommerce product page, targeting and optimizing for the right keywords is key.

But keyword optimization has changed quite remarkably in the past few years. Search engines are out for content that meets the intent of searchers. It’s no longer about how well you place your keywords in content but how much value coverage your content has with regards to intent.

As a matter of fact, there is still a need to create content with the consciousness of one or more keywords you’d like to rank for. This doesn’t necessarily mean counting the keyword occurrences and making sure it appears here or there on your content.  What it means is that you should make sure to answer every possible question that may be in the mind of the searcher at the moment of typing that keyword.

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1 Inspiring Characteristic of Successful Bloggers

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I have a vision. This characteristic is something I picked up from all really successful bloggers. Top bloggers dream a vision of their life as they intend for it to be. Call it imagining your dreams. Maybe it feels like setting your goals.

At the end of the day, having a vision enables you to succeed online because you see past obstacles, resistance or current circumstances, toward your dreams. Dreams lead successful bloggers.

Right now, even though I’m in the States, I see myself blogging from the beaches of Thailand. I visited Thailand many times during the past nine years of my life. But I intend to return once international travel begins again. Why dream? Dreams lead you to be the person who eventually lives the dream. I see myself relaxing on a white sand, powdery beach.

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How to Start a Successful Blog When You Are at College

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Starting a successful blog while you are still at college is a great idea since you can have enough time to grow your audience, perfect your content, and transform the blog from a hobby into a fully-fledged income source.

Furthermore, having a personal blog automatically means that you are your own employer and content manager; you get to decide on your schedule, vacations, and “office location”

Now, starting a successful blog might sound overwhelming because of just how much work you need to put in. However, if you approach your blog step by step, the process will be smooth and natural. Here are some ideas that will give you a head start.

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Group Leads Review ~ How to generate leads from your Facebook groups

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Group Leads is an interesting browser extension (Chrome and Firefox at the moment) that allows its users to turn any new Facebook Group member to an email list subscriber without having to spend on creating a Facebook ad.

Not only are you able to grow your list from your Facebook group with this smart app. You are also able to get new group members data posted automatically to a Google Sheet for further processing.

If you are running a Facebook group, this may be a piece of gold for you, given the importance of collecting and storing email addresses of your community members where you have full control.

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What Is the Best Way to Preserve Your Blogging Reputation?

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Although you cannot control how people view you or how they think about you, you can preserve your blogging reputation by simply surrounding yourself with good blogging buddies.

I cannot make anyone think anything about me. Can I control someone’s mind? No way. No human can control another human’s mind. We technically cannot control our reputation but we can preserve our blogging reputation by befriending a network of close blogging buddies.

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