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Local SEO Workshop Coming to SMX West ðŸ§
In: Industry News & Happenings|Local Search|Search Engine Optimization - SEO
20 Dec 2019Are you looking to level-up on your Local Search Engine Optimization game? Do you feel like you may be missing some of the vital components necessary to get your business ranking higher in Google’s local search results and Google Maps’? If so, you will want to take advantage of this opportunity! Argent Media founder, Chris […]
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Argent Media CEO Chris Silver Smith to Speak at Local Search Advantage Workshop
In: Industry News & Happenings|Local Search|Online Reputation Management - ORM
19 May 2015As part of the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle, Chris Silver Smith, Argent Media CEO, will be speaking at the Local Search Advantage Workshop on June 4, 2015. The Local Search Advantage Workshop provides a deep dive into many of the primary aspects of local marketing, covering all of the topics necessary for local […]
Local SEO 101: Why Links Are Important
9 Apr 2014We wrote previously in “Local SEO 101: What Are Local Citations?” that Google’s earliest algorithm was based upon automatically evaluating the links pointing to a webpage in order to calculate a score, upon which rankings could be based. While we further explained in that post how Local Citations are essentially the “Link” where local search […]
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- Tags: link building, link development, link exploits, link penalizations, linking, local link building, local link development, local links, PageRank, seo links
Argent Media president and founder, Chris Silver Smith, will be featured this Wednesday afternoon at 1:00pm CST on the Video Marketing Madness radio show with Ray Lane and Steve Sleeper. Chris will likely be discussing the use of videos and video sharing services such as YouTube for the purposes of optimizing businesses for local search […]
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Local SEO 101: What Are Local Citations?
In: Google|Local SEO 101
7 Apr 2014If you have read up on anything involving Local Search Engine Optimization or Maps SEO, you will have heard marketers talk about “Local Citations”. So, just what are they, and why are they so important in helping you to rank higher in local searches related to your business? Google’s earliest method or algorithm for ranking […]
Chris Silver Smith is speaking on semantic markup for local search optimization tonight at the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association meeting in Richardson. He’ll be speaking along with Greg Gifford, the Director of Search and Social for AutoRevo. Chris recently wrote a few articles on semantic markup, such as 13 Semantic Markup Tips for […]
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- Tags: DFWSEM, google plus management, google+ local, local SEO, schema.org, semantic markup
Argent Media’s President, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking in Charlotte, NC, on the topic of Local SEO at the annual SearchExchange Internet Marketing Conference, on July 24 2012. Smith will cover some of Google’s “Prominence” ranking factors, and some techniques for how local businesses may optimize for advantage through them. “Prominence” is something of […]
The 2012 edition of David Mihm’s annual Local Search Ranking Factors survey has been released this week, and the general summary concludes that most of the influential ranking signals continue to be beneficial. From a glance at the report, relatively few signals shifted significantly from last year’s report. As the summary states, the main changes […]
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Chris Silver Smith, president of Argent Media, will speak at next week’s DFW SEM meeting on Local Search Optimization, along with Brian Combs, founder and CEO of ionadas local. At the meeting, Chris will be presenting some techniques for Advanced Local Citation Development.
Argent Media’s Chris Silver Smith will be appearing and speaking at the Search Starts Here conference in Boca Raton, Florida, on April 23rd and 24th. He will be speaking on topics involving the future of local search, strategic tactics for companies interested in competing in the local search space, and on aspects around locational technologies. […]
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Bing Local SEO Basics
In: Bing|Local Search
30 Jan 2012In Chris Silver Smith’s most recent article on Search Engine Land, he provides some suggestions for local optimizations of business profiles for Bing’s Business Portal. While these tips may be basic, some of the information he points out — such as how images may help improve local rankings, and how including hours of operation might […]
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- Tags: Bing Business Portal, Bing Local, Bing Maps, business listings, business profile optimization, local search optimization, local SEO
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