If you’re a small business in St. Louis, or any city for that matter, being found on Google is very important to gaining customers. This means you need to be found on Google, especially in local search results. Your business needs it’s Google+ Local Pages account to be indexed and come up as high as possible in the search results. One way to get your page to a higher search ranking is to have positive Google reviews. But, what in the world will you do when your Google reviews start to disappear?

Are you looking to get your website seen for free? There is a simple method for doing this. The process being you need to rank high on search engines, such as Google and Bing. One way to help your business rank higher in the search engines is to get your business listed into online directories. These directories allow you to set up a personal page with a citation pointing back to your business website.

Over the last few years companies have started to realize the benefits of online marketing. Whether that's content marketing, social media, search engine optimization, or email marketing the benefits for companies utilizing online marketing are getting better and better. With these increased benefits coming from online marketing, it's not hard to imagine that businesses plan to increase their online marketing budgets in 2013. The budgets were already up in 2012 and all surveys are pointing that it will increase even more this year. What do these businesses get from their online marketing and why are they spending more money on this type of marketing?

If you know anything about social media, then you probably know that LinkedIn has the reputation of being the red headed step child. Some people don't understand what LinkedIn is for. Some question does it have value, especially when it comes to small business. Fortunately, LinkedIn is more of a diamond in the ruff rather than the red headed step child.

Most likely you have heard of SEO, video marketing, social media marketing, and online marketing in general. My question to you is, does your small business use video SEO for your local SEO plan? If the answer is no,

By now you have probably heard about the new Facebook search called Facebook graph search. Everyone I have talked to seems to have a "meh" mentality about a social media search and do not think it will be much of a change. They say it will definitely be no improvement over Google's search. However, I completely disagree and feel if a businesses Facebook page is properly optimized, the consumer will benefit greatly. How you say? Imagine you are having car troubles, do you trust the number one spot on Google (random shop), a random shop you found in the Yellow Pages, or do you use the Facebook graph search to find a shop that your own friends like and trust?

Businesses, meet SoLoMo. No, SoLoMo is not a hipster New York City neighborhood. SoLoMo – shorthand for social-local-mobile marketing – is the newest face of e-commerce, and it’s poised to revolutionize consumer spending habits in 2013.

In 2012, Google updated its page-rank algorithm more than 500 times. Can’t keep up with all the changes? Good news: you don’t need to worry about every Penguin or Panda update. In fact, thanks to major changes in Google’s search engine and page rank algorithm, your energy is far better spent creating quality online content than focusing on the latest Google update.

When you are looking for an online marketing company, you want to work with a company that knows what to do and how to get results. Leap Clixx wants you to experience our new way of driving customers to your business. We work face-to-face with our clients and utilize proven online marketing techniques.

As a business, you set aside a marketing budget so that you can find the customers you need to build your business. In this world where the Internet dominates, you must allocate a portion of your budget for SEO or search engine optimization services. Hiring an SEO consultant is the best way to get the kind of Internet marketing services your business needs in order to either move to the top or stay on top of your industry. Leap Clixx is your St Louis SEO consultant that can help your company get the results you need and want.