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Here are tricks to find yourself on social media.

Berkonomics

Google Alerts can be set for any parameter and then be set to deliver your results daily or more often using Google.com/alerts. Proactively link outward from your site. Those links will improve your search results as well. There are tools to inform you when your company name or personal name is mentioned.

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6 Keys To Preserving A Positive Business Image Online

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results.

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7 Ways To Promote Your Services Business By Blogging

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization).

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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Have you set your social media listening posts?

Berkonomics

Google Alerts can be set for any parameter and then be set to deliver your results daily or more often using Google.com/alerts. You will be able to control (to a degree) the placement of your name in the rankings with a little work one step beyond search engine optimization.

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7 Recommendations For Building Your Brand With A Blog

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization).

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Many Websites Look Like Zombies to Google Search

Startup Professionals Musings

These are subjective elements, but there are specifics that even a computer program can evaluate to set your ranking, and thus determine whether your site is alive and a good match to a specific search request. The solution is keeping your site alive and vital, and following basic search engine optimization (SEO) suggestions.

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