Archive for April, 2014

We 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 […]

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 […]

If 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 […]

For many small businesses owners, there simply doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to work on social media along with all the other important aspects of operating a business. Yet, social media is an increasingly important component of online marketing in terms of community interaction, search engine rankings, and proactive reputation management. […]


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  • Chris Silver Smith: I was approached by the Department of Justice some years ago to provide testimony regarding the pote [...]
  • Sean Fagin: Interesting - I had not thought of this niche in SEO! I might have to try out doing this myself. Ho [...]
  • How to Make Friends with Influencer Marketing - [Ag] Search Blog: […] My grant from the Chris Smith Institute for Exotic Travel was enough to cover both days of [...]
  • Chris Silver Smith: Good point about Gawker being a muckraking site in of itself. But there are a number of others who [...]
  • Rob M: Referencing Gawker for character assassination isn't so helpful since they were sued into oblivion b [...]