About Leslie Carruthers

Leslie Carruthers is President of The Search Guru, a search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing agency serving medium and large businesses who think big.

Google Alert: it’s not enough to just set up Google Alerts. Find out more.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00June 25th, 2012|

Google Alert: discover numerous new ways to use the search giant’s free service to help your business and/or personal brand. Ways in which these alerts are typically used include: To receive news on topics of interest, perhaps because they’re important to your business, because you blog about cutting-edge developments in a particular field and so

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Google Places SEO: Optimize Google Places business listing for Google+ Local.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00June 18th, 2012|

Google Places for Business is now part of Google+. Optimize your Google Places listing today to take full advantage of new Google Places SEO ranking factors. Google’s recent announcement that Google Places for Business would become part of Google+ has caused some confusion. At present, the switch from Google Places for Business to Google+ Local

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Build brand visibility by submitting content to sites accepting guest posts.

2019-07-02T14:06:36+00:00June 14th, 2012|

You might see phrases like “guest posts wanted” and “accepting guest posts” online. What are guest posts – and why should you write them? First, the “what.” Guest posts can be articles – or they could be blog posts. In either case, you aren’t writing them for one of your own sites. Instead, you’re writing

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Timeline for Facebook: read our biz guide to the new Timeline on Facebook

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00May 28th, 2012|

What is Facebook Timeline? Facebook is updating the way their fan / brand pages look and operate. This change in appearance and behavior is being called the Timeline for Facebook and offers brands new and unique opportunities to connect with their fans. Why does the new Timeline for Facebook matter to business? The new Timeline

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Discover how to use Pinterest and how to quickly set up Pinterest boards.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00May 25th, 2012|

Discover the Pinterest website; get started with this 101 primer Pinterest.com is a website where registered users can save, organize and share images or YouTube videos they find around the Internet. Pinterest can also be accessed via the free Pinterest app for iOS. Learning how to use Pinterest is similar to learning how to use

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Effective landing page: essential for a successful pay per click campaign.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00May 14th, 2012|

An effective landing page is essential for a successful pay per click campaign. With AdWords campaigns, perhaps you follow all of the best practices for: campaign structure keyword targeting negatives and compelling ads But, if you fail to create a customer experience within your site that gets a click – that becomes a conversion –

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Business letters of apology: repair online reputation & mend relationships

2021-04-07T10:35:16+00:00October 18th, 2010|

Business letters of apology: a customer of yours has just written a scathing online review of your products or services. How should you respond? The short answer is that you should write the customer a letter of apology (and, don’t worry, we’re going to include a business apology letter sample!). Regardless

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Best digital camcorder: see what to buy to create a video for your website.

2019-07-02T14:06:15+00:00May 17th, 2010|

The Search Guru shares in-depth tips to help you purchase the best digital camcorder to increase your website’s video content – to draw more traffic. There are many types of digital camcorders on the market today that are designed to make it easy for you to create a video and upload the content online. (The

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Bid management software: compare that to manual pay per click management.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00May 10th, 2010|

Pay per click management: When choosing a company to manage your paid search campaign, there are many factors to consider. What kind of reporting will you receive? Will you have total access to your account? How helpful will your account manager be? Another important factor you should consider is whether manual bidding or bid management

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