Malcom McCutcheon

Norfolk and Virginia Beach area businesses: we’ve created some free Twitter URL Shorteners just for you, located at NRF.LK and VBEA.CH respectively. Why Use a Twitter URL Shortener? Twitter and other services will automatically shorten whatever web address (URL) that you include with your status update. The reason for shortening the URLs on Twitter and [...]

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Sometimes even when you can see the link in Facebook’s page admin Resources screen, nothing happens after clicking Merge Duplicate Pages. It may guide you through the process of picking the pages, but at the end the window just disappears and the pages don’t merge. Facebook has provided a request form that you can use [...]

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One of the best things that you can do for your online presence is to stay active – both on your website/blog and on social media channels. In this post we’re going to cover some of the best tools (Google Reader + Flipboard + Buffer + Hootsuite) to help stay “alive and kicking” on Facebook, [...]

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One of my most popular posts ever, traffic-wise, has been the “We currently do not support the location” Google+ Local/Maps/Places error article I posted back in July of 2012. It seems there are a lot of frustrated small business owners in the same boat. It did make my business look bad because we help clients [...]

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Our tutorial series “How To Use Market Samurai For Local Keyword Research” has received a lot of positive feedback. However the three-part video series takes over 30 minutes to watch. That’s why I created this “brief version” with the goal of condensing the process into one video that was under 10 minutes long. The Original [...]

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In Part 3 of this series on local keyword research with Market Samurai, we are still using the example of a fictional personal injury law firm in Norfolk, VA that wishes to attract more clients. In Part 2, we selected our Descriptive, Industry, and Location-based keywords (from Part 1) and now we need to create [...]

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In Part 1 of this series, we took a look at Location-based keywords (e.g. city names) in an effort to get to know our market/region. In Part 2 we’ll still be using the example of a fictional personal injury law firm in Norfolk, VA. Since we’ve already researched our geographic region, the focus of this [...]

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Market Samurai is an excellent piece of software for SEO planning, analysis, and tracking, but did you know that it can also be used as a local keyword research tool? Here are some tips on how to use it to plan your SEO or Adwords campaigns. About Local Keyword Research In previous articles, we have [...]

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Many businesses have received the dreaded Google Maps Error “We currently do not support the location” after clicking the “See your listing on Google Maps” link from the Google Places Dashboard. This can be extremely frustrating after you’ve spent a lot of time and effort getting the correct citations for your Google Places listing. Unfortunately [...]

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The State Of Local Marketing In Hampton Roads, VA Many Norfolk, Virginia businesses have websites that are not optimized for local search engine optimization (SEO) and digital marketing. A lot of the local businesses have a web presences that were built before Google Maps optimization became important, and definitely before the rise of Google Places [...]

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