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Tips and Tricks for Local Search Rankings

By tourguide | November 29, 2019

Start by setting up Google My Business (GMB) – keep working on this and discover more and more features. Your Goals: Show up in the “Map 3 Pack” – this is the box that shows up in search results that includes a map, and usually a listing of 3 organic search results, but also with paid ad search results listed…

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Tutorials

By tourguide | January 23, 2019

Links to expert documentation and tutorials Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Torque offers lots of helpful info https://torquemag.io/2016/04/use-advanced-custom-fields-depth-tutorial/ Go to the Source Advanced Custom Fields Documentation   Gravity Forms https://docs.gravityforms.com/

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GPL Software

By tourguide | January 22, 2019

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and…

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Google Quality Guidelines for Evaluators

By tourguide | November 19, 2018

Google uses humans to check and evaluate content quality. This is their guideline they provide for training purposes. This is a big PDF that will take awhile to load – it belongs to Google and was published in July 2018; it can be found following this link if you don’t want to wait or deal with scrolling through pages.  https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf [pdf-embedder…

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Social Sharing

By tourguide | October 9, 2018

Buttons. They’re everywhere.  But there is actually a bit more to it than that. Surprisingly there can be a lot of features and functions associated with social sharing. That might help explain why there are so many different plugins available. Something to keep in mind is that depending on your settings, share buttons can really impact page loading speeds especially…

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