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Are Law Firms Still Using Personal Blog Networks (PBN) to Build Links?

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By Casey Meraz on Apr 13, 2017 05:25 pm

Link building for law firms has always proven to be a difficult task. The importance of links as a Google Ranking factor is still very prominent. On one hand, lawyers know they need to have strong links, but on the other, they recognize that getting legitimate links takes a lot of time and effort, and - Read More

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What You Need to Know About Ads in the 3-Pack

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By Joy Hawkins on Apr 13, 2017 12:17 pm

Last year at a marketing conference in Seattle, Google first announced that they were testing ads in the 3-pack.  This peaked the interest of the people in the audience, myself included, as this would be game changer for Local SEO.  Google has been testing pay-to-play models in other industries but adding an ad in the [...]

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Are you or your local search tools using UULE? Beware!

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By Dan Leibson on Apr 13, 2017 12:01 pm

It was a pretty big deal to the world of local search when Google removed “Search Tools” from their search engine. It may seem like NBD, but everyone in local search knew that that was the best way to see what a local search looked like in a different location from your own. After that […]

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