"Six Months!" screams Dr. Bob! I thought he might shatter a crown if I let him continue, so I agreed to look at his website when I got home and get back to him before the weekend.

The weekend arrives and I find myself in a dental office in Toronto hunched over a computer screen while desperately trying listen to NFL football on the radio. Not exactly where I want to be on the weekend but at least I am not in THE chair. We begin discussing SEO strategies and web site changes that Dr Bob might want to make.

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If a local business owner spent ten hours a week or so trying to stay on top of the local SEO news, he or she might be able to stay on page one of organic listings and Google Places. But that would assume that they are spending even more time or money actually implementing the strategies they learn about.

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An internal linking strategy should be used when writing your content, this allows visitors at your site another way to get to important content that you have on your website keeping them on your website longer. Most importantly use your targeted keywords when linking to other article or post, this strategy will help build a network of internal links on your website that will let the search engines know what keywords you are trying to target.