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SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire -06/05/12)- Local search engine optimization is critical for retailers, manufacturers, and service businesses with multiple locations, as well as dealerships and franchise owners. Rio SEO, a leader in SEO automation, has acquired Top Local Search Inc. to address this need.

As a result of the acquisition, Rio SEO adds five "hyper-local" SEO software offerings to its growing suite of search, social media, and content marketing automation tools. Rio SEO is a new business unit and brand spun-out by San Diego-based Covario, Inc. in April.

With local SEO, marketers see the immediate benefit of digital storefronts optimized on a location-specific basis. The SaaS-based software offerings integrate local SEO with mobile, social, video, and couponing promotions that are valued by consumers looking to make specific transactions at the most convenient locations. For example, custom store-by-store information is instantly available to consumers in an area searching for individual store hours, location directions, specific products or services, local promotions, gift cards, and more.

The former Top Local Search clients that will now become Rio SEO clients encompass multi-location franchisors, retailers, dealers, manufacturers, resellers, and regional business owners. Among the firm's former principals joining the Rio SEO team are Founder and CEO Bill Connard, along with Customer Support Manager Penny Phaneuf.

"We're excited to join the industry-leading Rio SEO team," Connard said. "Our products perfectly complement and extend the Rio SEO suite for local SEO. This puts Rio SEO in a stronger position to address the multi-location business market, particularly from a localization and mobile marketing perspective."

Together, the five local SEO modules have been renamed to form the basis of a new Rio SEO Local Search Solution. Individually, they include: Rio SEO Location Finder, a hyper-local SEO module that helps generate web traffic for individual stores and business locations; Rio SEO Mobile Location Finder, which delivers mobile web traffic for local business locations through a mobile user experience resulting in increased engagement and conversion; Rio SEO Local Search Optimizer, an automation tool for optimizing web pages on a multi-location basis that delivers more local search web traffic and valuable web analytics; Rio SEO Local Map Optimizer, for local map listing information updated daily across the major search engines; and Rio SEO IYP Link Optimizer, a tool for maintaining consistent Internet Yellow Page listings across the web updated regularly with the latest location landing page URLs.

These modules complement the full Rio SEO suite of organic search marketing and social media software automation tools for content marketing, auditing, reporting, competitive analysis, mobile site optimization, and SEO execution -- now on both a global and a local basis.

In addition to these local SEO tools, the Rio SEO product lineup also includes: Rio SEO Search Analytics, a patented SEO auditing, reporting, and recommendations solution; Rio SEO Website Optimizer, an SEO content management solution ideally suited for large content providers and ecommerce sites; Rio SEO Mobile Site Builder, an automation solution that builds and optimizes web pages for mobile devices; Rio SEO Social Analytics, a social media ROI tracking and workflow solution; and Rio SEO Change Tracker, a new application module that helps digital marketers diagnose and address website changes -- often made inadvertently by other areas of an organization -- which can cause SEO performance problems if not promptly corrected.

"I'm pleased to welcome Bill and Penny to our high performing team," said Russ Mann, chief executive of Rio SEO. "Their talent and experience will be a key asset, as will the proven hyper-local SEO solutions they're bringing with them. Clearly, Rio SEO now has a larger suite of SEO and social media software tools that will appeal to a broader cross section of marketers and retailers -- big and small -- plus dealers, distributors, and franchise operators, as well other digital agencies. It's a great fit."

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HAMBURG, Germany, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

The professional SEO software SEOlytics (http://www.seolytics.com) is now available in the US. For the launch, SEOlytics presents a special highlight: a completely free Starter version. Its range of unique features and exceptional quality of data empower SEOlytics users to perform in-depth search performance analysis of their own web sites and those of their competitors.

Managers, online marketers and webmasters can use SEOlytics to measure the daily visibility of their website on Google as well as Bing and to easily identify the potentials for improvement. Whether used to analyze competition and market or whether employed as a professional tool for the day-to-day work of an in-house SEO or SEO agency - with one click, SEOlytics gives the complete picture and helps improving search performance over the long term.

SEOlytics is beneficial to both SEO agencies as well as businesses earning money online, like shops or paid content web sites. They can analyze and track the ranking of their web sites for their moneymaking keywords in detail. This establishes the foundation for fact-based decision-making and evaluation of search optimization measures to push site rankings to the first page of search engine results. In turn, this generates more traffic, increases conversions and business performance.

SEOlytics Starter allows comparing search performance of up to 10 domains based on the unique SEOlytics Visibility Rank (SVR) index. The SVR is calculated based on rankings, search volume, and cost per click for a respresentative reference keyword set of over one million US keywords. Powerful ad-hoc browsing and filtering on this keyword set is just as possible as daily rank tracking for up to 20 custom keywords. Beyond that users can create their own Daily Visibility Rank (DVR) indices based on the keywords that really matter to their domain.

SEOlytics is known for excellent data quality and richness: The tool identifies a wealth of universal search result types, such as video, news, local, shopping, and image results.

SEOlytics' unique ad-hoc analysis of web site backlink structures and key performance indicators provides insight into link building strategies and campaigns. Combined with SEOlytics keyword ranking data, users can profoundly measure success, failure, and impact of link building campaigns.

SEOlytics is available as a free Starter version, a PRO ($99) version and an Elite version (starting at $339). http://www.seolytics.com)

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04-06-2012 03:31 (www.abndigital.com) ABN's Mashudu Masutha speaks with Nomvuyo Guma, Macroeconomic Strategist at Standard Bank, looking at: Market reaction to disappointing US jobs data last week; Expectations ahead of ECB meeting this week; Rand bouncing off three-year lows; SA markets eyeing vehicle sales and manufacturing data this week.

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04-06-2012 14:44 The first of what will be a series of interviews with people living the travel dream, traveling the world and making money as they do it! Travel Blogging - I meet up with Samuel Jeffery of a Canadian currently teaching in South Korea, who over the last 11 months has built up his travel blog to where it earns anything from $2000 to $6000 USD a month. I ask him what his secrets are and he reveals some interesting tips. AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL VIDEO ADVENTURE web: fb: twt: g+:

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Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid is wrong in his complaints Sunday over U.S. Soccer methodology and alleged skullduggery very, very wrong. And to his big bowl of Wrong Salad, the man ladled on a heaping helping of Bad Timing dressing.

Frankly, Schmid probably owes a round or two of apology beers. And his complaints well, they dont even make sense.

And yet, he managed to be just a little bit right. Its tricky, but he pulled it off.

Schmid sent serious ripples across the U.S. Soccer pond Sunday when, in comments to the Seattle Times, he essentially accused U.S. Soccer of rigging the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup site selection process.

The comments in question:

Obviously the coin is not favorable for us. It seems to land on the right side for K.C. and D.C. United, whose president of one club and coach of the other have been on the executive committee of U.S. Soccer. Surprisingly. Being very frank, I think U.S. Soccer is trying to make it difficult for us to win an Open Cup. Its almost like sometimes I get the feeling that theyd rather not see us win it again, for whatever reasons. Maybe they think it dilutes the value of the Cup or theyre getting pressure from some others that think Seattle can only win it because theyre playing at home.

Oh, my.

Theres quite a bit more where those came from, too.

Mostly, its just wrong to go all conspiratorial like this, lobbing public accusations with absolutely no base of supporting evidence.

Schmid is talking about coin flips that determine host rights and matchups. And Seattle has had some bummer luck in the coin tossing. Still

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