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INDIANAPOLIS, IN--(Marketwire -03/01/12)- Slingshot SEO, the innovative firm delivering digital relevance for deserving brands, was recently named as one of the 2012 Best Places to Work in Indiana. The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, BizVoice, Inside INdiana Business, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) - IN State Council, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and Best Companies Group.

"We are honored to have been selected for this award. The staff at Slingshot SEO has always thought of Slingshot SEO as the 'best' and now we have outside confirmation," Jay Love, CEO of Slingshot SEO, said. "Slingshot SEO offers our employees a host of unique benefits, including a 4-day workweek. This honor is especially satisfying given that our employees' opinions are what put us on the top."

This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Indiana, benefiting the state's economy, its workforce and businesses. The 2012 Best Places to Work in Indiana list is made up of 39 companies in the small/medium-sized list (15-249 employees in the United States) and 31 companies in the large-sized list (250+ employees in the United States).

Companies from across the state entered the two-part process to determine the Best Places to Work in Indiana. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. This part of the process was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking.

First year applicants, Slingshot SEO will be recognized and honored at the 2012 Best Places to Work in Indiana Awards Dinner coordinated by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, May 3rd. The final rankings will be announced at the event.

About Slingshot SEOIndianapolis-based Slingshot SEO was ranked #58 on the 2011 list of Inc's 500 Fastest Growing Companies, and was #14 on the 2011 Tech200. Founded in 2006, Slingshot SEO provides professional SEO services to more than 150 clients across the country. The company's results are driven by a tireless passion to make deserving brands digitally relevant. For more information about Slingshot SEO and to read customer reviews, visit: http://www.slingshotseo.com

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SEO Positive, the digital marketing agency responsible for the search engine optimisation activities of renowned Mexican restaurant chain Benitos Hat, has announced that the increase in enquiries as a result of online promotional activity has contributed towards the opening of their clients fourth restaurant in the UK.

(PRWEB UK) 1 March 2012

Just three months later, Benitos Hat is proud to announce that they will be opening a fourth Mexican restaurant in London, situated in Kings Cross, to cater for customer demand, a move which has been made possible in part by the buzz currently surrounding the company as a result of extensive online promotional work.

And its no wonder interest in the business is at an all-time high thanks to the work of the search team at SEO Positive, the companys website is now enjoying top five positions for all specified keywords within Google.co.uk.

Dave Damhar, the Client Account Manager responsible for the restaurants SEO activities, will also be looking at targeting a broader range of keywords as the two parties move into the second phase of the campaign.

Our strategy has achieved fantastic success for Benitos Hat in a relatively short period of time, so our priority now is to build upon their first-page positions by looking at ways of expanding their reach via different search terms, Dave explains. Were working together to push forward the expansion of their business to make even more openings possible in future.

SEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine optimisation, Pay Per Click account management, social media marketing and online reputation control.

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Insiders find every aspect of search engine optimization (SEO) fascinating. But the real world doesnt. An SEO professional may live and die by every algo update and latest social signal split-test, but please know that the non-SEO world couldnt care less.

Take, for example, a carpet cleaner, a dentist, a veterinarian, roofer, plumber, mover, even doctors, lawyers... you get the idea. They are busy running their businesses. Over the years a divergence has developed between the SEM blogs and the realities of small business marketing. A course correction is needed.

Lets first be clear, small business needs online marketing. In fact, many of these businesses need online marketing far more than their larger corporate brothers. The big guys can swing fat SEO budgets around as they explore different social media outlets and experiment with social engagement as an alternative customer service strategy.

The small business profile is not nearly as pretty, particularly in this economy. Often hampered by small margins, super tight budgets and a general lack of respect from vendors who give them their lesser-trained account managers, many small business owners are living on a frustrating edge.

A small business owner who has been around for a while is often especially unhappy with the migration to online marketing. The rules used to be simple. You set up shop, bought your yellow pages ad, and then had a modest budget for other media outlets such as radio, newsprint, fliers, coupons and perhaps local television.

While youd expect great enthusiasm for the new online economy, you often hear frustration and bitterness. Why is small business so mistrustful of online marketing? And what is so special about SEO that has them particularly distrustful?

Last years big Panda updates were the obvious big SEO news. It was, as algorithm updates go, a major change that impacted 12 percent of Googles search results. And SEO shop phones across the country rang off the hook from small business owners who were scrambling to figure out what it all meant for their traffic.

Trained empiricists will be fascinated by the scientific reviews of Panda. But this is inaccessible to small business owners who really ask questions such as,Hey, does Panda mean that Google is finally going to get me for that guy I hired last year to spin articles and post them to 2,000 article sites?

Was Panda really about thin content as everybody claimed? You can find all sorts of human and machine spun content still warm and cozy in Googles database today, leading many to believe Panda was really more about duplicate content (still) than anything else.

But back on point, the small business world isn't interested in debates. They want the yellow pages, conceptually anyway. And SEO is about as far from that as possible because the rules keep changing.

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I recently tested out the software SEO SpyGlass which is part of the SEO Powersuite. SEO SpyGlass is a simple-to-use backlink checker. If you want to do well in SEO you have to understand the importance of keeping track of your competitors back-linking strategies. SEO SpyGlass can help you do that and also help you find high-quality links for your website.

SEO SpyGlass helps you see, on your own computer, what strategies your competitors have employed and this data is what you need to create a winning strategy of your own. This important information is for you to keep private and wont be published online for others to see. This is a plus.

SEO SpyGlass answers some pretty serious questions:

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Step one of the process, add a URL of a competitor. If you chose next without the show expert options checked you were given some basic information to start. I chose to not check it for test one.

The software then asked if I wanted to update search engine data.

I, of course, said yes and was given many options to choose from. I was also given the chance to add more backlink factors of my own. Some factors you dont see in the image below:

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SEO Agency brings corporate SEO tools to small business in Solihull and Birmingham

Birmingham, UK (PRWEB UK) 29 February 2012

Jaspal Sahota, Director of Vitis PR, said, We have been tightly integrating SEO into corporate PR campaigns for years. Now, having streamlined our processes, we can make the tools and skills we developed in corporate SEO, affordable to smaller businesses. There is a significant overlap between public relations and ethical SEO and we can offer a more rounded service to clients compared to pure SEO agencies.

We have developed a very effective and affordable SEO service for local and small businesses owners with WebPageOneHQ. A local business might easily spend 2,000 a year on listings in local directories, and be listed alongside many competitors. With our SEO service, we can help businesses stand out on the web and get more sales while spending less than the cost of a premium listing in a major local directory.

WebPageOneHQ has already signed up a number of local businesses for SEO in the Solihull and Birmingham areas. The agencys offerings include services for local retailers, e-commerce businesses and local search optimisation (Google Places).

To find out more, contact Jaspal Sahota on 0121 285 8048 or visit WebPageOneHQ's SEO blog at http://www.webapageonehq.com/blog/

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