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If we ask who your competitors are then you could probably name two or three without even blinking but what if we told you that many of your competitors might not be your business rivals. When we think about our competitors, we mainly think about those companies that operate in the same market and deal with the same products or services like ours. Here it is important to understand that all the companies, blogs, social profiles, or business directories that dominate the first page of your target keywords are your true competitors. In case if they are not your direct competitors even then, you have to compete against them. Anyone who has occupied the search result space that you targeted is your real competition. Organic Non-Competition Your real competitors may rank for many of your ta
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Google My Business is going to launch a new feature that will help the business owners to showcase their positive reviews. Google My Business or GMB will automatically suggest for the positive reviews that are to be shared from the customers through the Google posts. The suggestions for the positive reviews will appear as when you sign in to Google My Business. Or, they even the suggestions will be sent to the business owners through email notification. Only the latest reviews having 4-5 stars are recommended, and even the business owners have the option to edit the reviews before they publish. Google announcement says that this feature is becoming popular in many countries. Though, Google cannot say which countries are getting access to this particular feature. Google posts have ways to
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While I was analyzing a wide range of factors responsible for the ranking of the sites this year, I have confirmed with the direction my pre-conceived thoughts for the ranking factors, after discussing with some of the leading SEOs. I must admit the fact that there have been dramatic changes made in Google’s algorithm. Of course, ranking factors matter a lot but content factors at the same time continue to play an instrumental role. Evolvement of the SEO Ranking Factors It is true that search engines progress way quicker even than it is relevant for SEO business since the latter is in a continuous stage of moving up. Let’s have a brief for the evolvement of different SEO ranking factors. Statistical Analysis in 2005 It was one of the major evaluations in the algorithms of
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