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When it comes to offering services to local business to help them gain ranking, indexing and just mere exposure in the search engines, you really don’t have to look to far!

I am pretty sure this is the same regardless if you are in the US, the UK, Australia or pretty much anywhere the internet has impacted.

1. First go to your favorite search engine.
2. Enter the search term “free <insert your area/state here> classified site”
3. Now from the first 10 results, you should see several websites you can register at for free… start registering
4. Create ads that are written well with the relevant search phrases for the local business

Ranking high in Googles search results can have a phenomenal impact on the success of your business.

You can either engage the expertise of a Search Engine Optimisation company, or if you have the time, there are some changes you can make to your website yourself.

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Some things never change, it’s true. Just like the leader in search engines always remains strong, Google! Yes, sitting pretty at #1 yet again is Google search according to comscore.

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in December with 65.7 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (17.3 percent), and Microsoft Sites (10.7 percent). Ask Network captured 3.7 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.6 percent.

In the December analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the search market with more than 14.0 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.6 billion queries and Microsoft Sites with 1.6 billion searches. Bing experienced large growth during the month with a 6-percent increase in query volume to nearly 1.4 billion searches. eBay and Amazon Sites experienced gains in December as retail search activity picked up during the holiday season.

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As Christmas approaches, we get to see exactly what the first half of this shopping season has done for online business. The November period has proven to be quite promising in an economic climate that may have suggested otherwise!

But lets look into this a little more. What search engines have proven to be the source of the sauce this season?

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 65.6 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (17.5 percent), and Microsoft Sites (10.3 percent). Ask Network captured 3.8 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.8 percent.