Small Business SEO Tips

Rhode Island SEO tips for small businesses - by Sidewalk Branding Company

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How (Not) To Kill Your SEO & Rankings

Our list of the top website design and SEO tips to help your business increase online visibility.

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Making Your Content Matter - quality over quantity

How to write better pages and posts that increase lead gen.

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Telephone Number SEO?

Read how different telephone formats index differently on search engines - and which one is the clear winner.

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How To Promote A Map Location Without An Address

How to promote a physical location on a map that doesn’t have a physical address - like an emergency shelter check in, food truck, food market, or trade show booth.

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Why You Shouldn’t Match Your META To Google’s New Character Limits

This past December Google lengthened the character limits for the META title and description elements they will display for a webpage. These new changes mean Google will now display up to 70 characters (including spaces) for the title and up to 320 characters for the description META of a webpage.

As you might imagine – this is fantastic news for businesses, but my advice is to hold off on making…

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(via Top 6 1/2 Website Designs That Kill Rankings)

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Top 6 1/2 Website Design Mistakes That Kill Rankings

Top 6 1/2 Website Design Mistakes That Kill Rankings

We meet a good amount of business owners each month who are looking to improve their online visibility and search engine rankings. Considering there’s no shortage of SEO and marketing advice floating around on the internet, it completely blows my mind that the majority of business websites we see don’t have the foundation SEO elements in place needed to get their website discovered online.

It…

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Local SEO specialist, Chris Sheehy of Rhode Island’s Sidewalk Branding Co., will discuss the benefits of incorporating the “LocalBusiness” schema of structured data for greater business website indexation and online visibility.

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Small Business SEO Trends for 2015

Quite often, the small talk we have with the businesses we meet as well as with our industry colleagues revolves around the current state of SEO best practices.

From SEO experts to DIY SEO dabblers, everyone seems focused on making 2015 the year of discovery for small business.

For us, January has always been a time to reassess our client strategies for the upcoming year. This is when we take…

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Sidewalk Branding Interview

Chris Sheehy:

From an interview Chris gave a few months ago as part of the Johnson & Wales University “Online Entrepreneurial Class” focusing on business sustainability.

Originally posted on Breaking Green Boundaries:

By Dan Dwyer  |

On Thursday April 3rd, I was fortunate enough to meet and interview Chris Sheehy, the founder of Sidewalk Branding Company in Rumford, Rhode Island. Sidewalk…

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Top 10 SEO Tips for Restaurants sure to increase online visibility and fill your tables http://goo.gl/5uYsGN

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Top 10 Restaurant SEO Tips

Top 10 Restaurant SEO Tips

By Chris Sheehy | Local SEO Expert   Sure, people will come to your restaurant for the food, ambiance and impeccable service, but they need to find you first.

Word-of-mouth, newspaper, and social media marketing tactics all work at increasing brand awareness for your business, but SEO spreads your branding farther and more sustainably than anything else. It’s a marathon approach, however, so it…

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5 Tips to Finding the Business Citations That Ruin Local Visibility

5 Tips to Finding the Business Citations That Ruin Local Visibility

By Chris Sheehy | Sidewalk Branding   Have you ever thought - where do search engines get their information?

Well, you probably know that search engines gather information about your business directly from the words on your website – but you may be surprised to learn your government and other industries also play a part in your online visibility.

Here is a (rare) list of data sources by a search…

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The hidden cost of the FREE business review monitoring service FreeReviewMonitoring.com

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The hidden Cost Of The Free Business Review Monitoring Service FreeReviewMonitoring.com

Business reviews, stars, ratings, and all that come with it, have become vital marketing elements for small-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in recent years. It’s not a secret that great business reviews can quickly convert a prospecting searcher into a lead or sale – but if your business has poor online reviews, you run the risk of not only losing sales, and your business reputation, but prime…

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Here’s how to get your business listed on DuckDuckGo now that Apple ditched Google Search

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Apple Ousts Google - here's how to get your business listed on DuckDuckGo

Apple Ousts Google – here’s how to get your business listed on DuckDuckGo

 Apple Just Announced it is replacing Google Search with the alternative search engine DuckDuckGo.

So you should probably be thinking about how well your business ranks on duckduckgo.com

SEO experts know that Google isn’t the only search engine that businesses need to be discovered on.  If they want their business to show up on Apple products in the very near future (and they should) – they…

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