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Helpful Information for Small Business People about Search Engine Optimization and Online Marketing

Online Marketing can be a frustrating, confusing and complicated endeavor for any business owner. We believe it doesn't have to be. At GreatCircle, a Tampa website design and SEO company, we provide a number of services to help our clients improve their online marketing and the performance of their websites in the search engines. We created this SEO Blog to help you succeed in your SEO efforts.

Since we're very involved in this subject we stay on top of the ever-changing world of SEO. We decided to create this blog as a way to publish information on this subject as we come across it. We also offer a free white paper on SEO and online marketing, so check that out too. We hope you find the information we have assembled here useful. Feel free to share with us your SEO knowledge and experiences using the comments links below each article.

Google Analytics – Social Media Updates

Published in Google and General SEO, Social Media

Google Analytics – Finally updates their Social Media Plug-Ins to allow more detailed tracking from Social Media Accounts.

Recently Google sent product updates to Webmasters informing them of their updated Analytics product, which a lot of people use. Below are excerpts from their email:

Social is increasingly important as a marketing channel. But, how do you measure the impact and effectiveness of your social initiatives? Four elements define your social impact:

  • Conversions
  • Sources
  • Pages
  • Social Plugins
  • Your Social Impact

Setting Up Google Places for your Business

Published in Google and General SEO

First of all, what is Google Places? It’s a free service developed by Google that allows business owners to edit the content of their existing local listing, or to add a brand new listing to Google’s local database. (more) It allows you to post information about your physical location to help searchers find you. There are a number of steps to setting up your account and putting your information into it. These are covered in this article.

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Linking Google Analytics To Webmaster Tools

Published in Google and General SEO

If you have been using Google Analytics to track your Web site data you can now link your verified Webmaster Tools site to your Analytics profile page if they use the same Google account. This will not only create an easier way to view your Analytics Profile but you will also gain easier access to the Google Analytics features.

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What is Foursquare and Can it Help Business on the Web?

Published in Social Media

Foursquare is a social networking service that is based on user location. After registering to create an account users may download an application to their mobile device. Using that application users can connect to other users by sharing their location to the network.

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Finding Old Versions of Web Sites

Published in General Web and Search Info

In 1996 the Internet Archive was founded to help build an Internet library. The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to build a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Archive collaborates with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian.

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