Google Maps is a must have for any business, especially for local SEO. This is what I get from Kick-Ass Local SEO Tips & Strategies (Inbound Marketing Toronto). It's a great meetup event.

Local SEO becomes more important nowadays. For example, I live in Toronto, and I want to find a good Pho restaurant (Vietnamese food) for diner. Then ka-boom, the Google search shows me the one which is near my house. How fantastic is it!

Let's image what happens if your business doesn't show up in the (local) search engine? You lose a bunch of potential customers, right?

Now, this article will help you to put your business in Google Maps for FREE! Yay!

Step 1: Go to Place for business, sign in to your account and fill out your business information

Step 2: way for the PIN. Google will send it to you in 1-2 weeks

Step 3: Once you get the PIN, verify your business and create your Google Plus page for your business

Congratulation! Your business is on Google Maps now.

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Are you tired of entering every single password when you get into a website such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo...? This is an amazing application to manage all your online passwords.  Believe me, this is the last password you have to remember!

Step 1: go to Addon Manger (Firefox) or Extensions (Chrome) then find and install Lastpass

Step 2: Restart your browser

Step 3: If you don't have an account, create one

Step 4: After creating an account, enter your username and password 

Step 5: If you see the red button as in the picture, you're successfully access to Lastpass Vault. You can choose AutoLogin if you want to access your Facebook account automatically.

Happy saving time!

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In this post, I will show you how to create a Home tab in Wordpress. All that you need to do is follow some simple steps:

Step 1: Go to Appearance -> Menus

Step 2: Create a Link to your main page

Step 3: Refresh your page

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The most important thing is to focus on the potential customers. Below is how people conduct their keyword plan, so they will know which keywords to focus on as a part of SEO strategies.

Step 1: Brainstorming

Answer this question: "What services do you offer in customer's perspective?"

Step 2: Evaluate search volume

Focus on long-tail keywords. 

E.g. iPhone cases are less effective than blue iPhone cases, and blue iPhone 4s cases are more effective than the others.

Step 3: Categorize by keyword

For example: model, brand, color, custom...

Tool to help find keyword

1. Google Keyword Planner (you may be asked for registering in the first place)

2. Google Trends

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In this post, I will show you how to change default Blogger icon next to your blog name in the address bar. I know when you find this post, you are really tired of that yellow B icon. Don't worry, it's time change:

Step 1: Log in your blog Dashboard -> Layout, then edit Favicon

Step 2: upload your favorite icon

Step 3: Refresh your blog and the miracle will happen

Note: delete your browser's cache if you see no change.

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I started blogging since 2009. It was all about computer such as Linux, Windows, Technology solution... At the first time, there was no view at all in the my blog. Until now, there are extremely more views per day in my personal blog. Not so good, not so bad. However, it keeps growing as I have many things to learn and many mistakes to fix. 

My first purpose of starting to become a blogger is to save my works somewhere, so I have a chance to take a look at it again, and maybe there's someone who will need my solutions. Indeed, it helped a lots of people who got the same problem as mine although I just had a little knowledge in web design. Actually, it doesn't matter much.

I think the most important thing if I want to be come a blogger is to love what I write no matter what happens. When loving my work, I will create unique information that nowhere else has. That will become a part of me, a trait of me. That is the one which will make my blog more interesting to the reader who has the same hobby or problem. 

* Writing what I love just attracts some audiences, but write what brings the most benefits for the common reader will definitely make more impact. For example, I can write about celebrities, politic, economic or whatever. However, it is easy to be criticized when getting involve in those subject. Anyway, my blog must have some real values in order to attract the reader.

Then, the next step is to bring your blog to search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask...), so people can find my works no matter where they live.

Next, googling the problem that I am solving is a good way to promote. I registered as a member and posted the solution together with the link. It really helps, most of my views comes from those pages. I can find websites, forums or Facebook pages that have the same character with my work, then I help to solve their problems. It is a good way because I can also improve my knowledge by solving the problem. 

The fourth step is to share my content on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest regularly. This method can attract some readers with the same hobbies or problems as mine. 

There are some other methods that can help me to gain the audience such as email subscription, paid ads, asking friends to introduce my blog...

In addition, I think that the common way to gain more audience in a short a mount of time is to start a charity campaign or a competition with prizes or action which involves in what you are writing about. After that, let's ask your friends or post in social media to promote it. By doing in this, I can gain a huge amount of like and share on Social Media.  

In general, having a good content and some basic knowledge in SEO and search engine can absolutely bring to your to the certain level in the digital world. 

Feel free to discuss about How to promote your blog, or if you have some useful tips, please let's me know.

(From Dale Nguyen)

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Basing on the question which is posted in LinkedIn, I made a small research about those SEO online courses for the one who make to improve their digital marketing skill. It`s not only about SEO but also about Online Marketing. 

1. Lynda SEO

2. Naber Consulting

3. Moz

4. Distilled U

5. Digital Marketing Institute

This is good for the one who wants to pursuit their Master in Digital Marketing

6. Google Partner Programs

7. Canadian Marketing Association

8. Matthew Woodward

9. (to be updated)

Have fun!

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The Attribution gadget is the gadget in the footer that says "Powered By Blogger". If you have tried to remove this then you may of noticed this gadget is locked into you blog. To unlock it, follow the next steps:

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If you haven’t created a Google Plus Business Page for your business you’ll probably wantGoogle Plus Business Page to go here and create one before reading any further.

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