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		<title>Customers Are Looking For Your Restaurant Online &#8211; Give Them Something to Find</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having The Perfect Web Site Presence Does Not Have To Be A Headache, Nor Does It Have To Be Expensive. Obtaining a fruitful digital relationship with your customers is a process. At this very moment, your customers are searching Google; seeking your menu, directions to your place, or wanting to leave a testimonial. If you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Having The Perfect Web Site Presence Does Not Have To Be A Headache, Nor Does It Have To Be Expensive.</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.freemealsforkids.com/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-92" title="Click Here To See Our Demo Site!" src="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/foodservicedemo.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="198" /></a>Obtaining a fruitful digital relationship with your customers is a process. At this very moment, your customers are searching Google; seeking your menu, directions to your place, or wanting to leave a testimonial. If you don&#8217;t have a method for them, the process breaks down.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.freemealsforkids.com/" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span> To See Our <a href="http://www.freemealsforkids.com/" target="_blank">Demo Site</a></strong></h3>
<p>We have the perfect <strong>restaurant web design</strong> solution for connecting with customers in ways you&#8217;ve heard little about. Our firm is deploying this dynamite solution for <strong>food service establishments</strong> who want to improve their web visibility, upgrade the functionality, and get the most out of mobile &amp; social media markets. Not only that, we&#8217;re helping run front-of-the-house operations with an intelligent reservation engine, and easy to update full-service menu module in one convenient panel.</p>
<p>With this intelligent <strong>Food Service Website Solution</strong>, you can upgrade your existing site; or introduce a new one &#8211; so your customers can find you online, and thus interact with you, pre and post-dining experience. By taking online reservations, you start to automatically build an email list of store visitors; only growing your marketing value and potential to increase revenue with loyal customers.</p>
<p>Our marketing research indicates that customers who build a digital relationship with a food service establishment spend 30% more than the average consumer. This is similar to what we see in customer rewards programs, and promotional couponing. Consumers will spend more in your store if you give them an easy and up-to-date method of interacting with it.</p>
<h2><strong>Incredible Benefits Of Our New Food Service Designs<br />
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<li>Turn-Key Deployment Makes This Easy</li>
<li>Customizable &amp; Scalable for Growth</li>
<li>Mobile Access Ready for Smart Phone Users</li>
<li>QR Coupon Codes for Promotional Campaigns</li>
<li>Simple Menu Management Module</li>
<li>Built upon Restaurant-Specific User Experiences</li>
<li>Contact Form &amp; Online Reservation Engine with CSV Export</li>
<li>Promotions made easy with one-click Today&#8217;s Special</li>
<li>Facebook | Twitter | Google+ Integration</li>
<li>Testimony Management and Display</li>
<li>Autoresponder Integration</li>
<li>Google Maps Display</li>
<li>Service / Store Gallery</li>
<li>Event Calendar</li>
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<h2><strong>Intelligent Solution<br />
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<p>All of these features are tuned specifically to service the food service consumer when they search for your restaurant, deli, bagel shop, or pizzeria. Nearly any establishment that sells and serves food, takes reservations, and orders,  needs an upgraded method for building consumer relationships can benefit immensely from it.</p>
<p>Our restaurant web design uses a common platform that is easy to deploy, with zero-hassles, and no crazy custom development. With just a few questions about your business, and with your participation &#8211; you can have an explosively popular online answer to your customer&#8217;s needs.</p>
<p>Once your customers see your new web site investment, they will buzz to their friends on social media; further adding to your popularity online. Our tactics are designed to make the most out of that positive exposure, and this only translates into more store visitors, and even more sales.</p>
<p>With our food service platform, we can give your establishment the web property look and feel it deserves.</p>
<p>Please contact us today for a NO COST consultation, and demonstration. You just need a computer, and 5 minutes to see all that this solution has to offer.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">Call RGV SEO Today At 956-254-0456</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Or <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.rgvseo.com/contact-us/" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span> To Use Our Convenient <a href="http://www.rgvseo.com/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact Form</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Free Website Design For Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get A Free Website For Your Business Just In Time For The Holiday Shopping Season! Sign up for a year of web hosting, and RGV SEO will design a professional and appealing website for your business. If you are starting a new business, or have been operating an established one for a while, it&#8217;s vital [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Get A Free Website For Your Business Just In Time For The Holiday Shopping Season!</h2>
<p>Sign up for a year of web hosting, and RGV SEO will design a professional and appealing website for your business.</p>
<p>If you are starting a new business, or have been operating an established one for a while, it&#8217;s vital that you invest in a website that promotes and sells your products and services.</p>
<p>A professionally-designed website can save a business thousands of dollars in advertising, and could generate thousands of dollars in sales every month.</p>
<p>By setting up a website, your business is being advertised on the Internet around the clock, all year long&#8230; and at very little cost. A website will also make your business available to customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without you having to actually be open and paying someone to be physically present at your location.</p>
<p>For a limited time only, RGV SEO is giving away FREE websites to any business that signs up for a one-year hosting plan. For $299, your business will get a full year of web hosting on our super-fast servers, and the following website package&#8230;</p>
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<li><strong>First 5 pages included: Home, About Us, Contact Us, &#038; Two More Pages Of Your Choice.</strong></li>
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<li><strong>Easy to Use Admin – You Update</strong></li>
<li><strong>Custom Facebook Business Page</strong></li>
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<p>Your website will help your business by:</p>
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<li><strong>Generating Leads</strong></li>
<li><strong>Selling Your Products &#038; Services</strong></li>
<li><strong>Making You Stand Out From Your Competition</strong></li>
<li><strong>Increasing Shopper Awareness During Holiday Season!</strong></li>
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		<title>Local Business Search Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No One Uses The Phone Book Anymore Is print advertising dead? The Internet’s most popular search provider actually claims that 20 percent of all Google searches are from people seeking information about local businesses. Long gone are the days of the ten-pound telephone book and its yellow pages. In today’s marketplace, using technology is absolutely [...]]]></description>
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<h3><strong>No One Uses The Phone Book Anymore</strong></h3>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Is print advertising dead?</span></strong><br />
The Internet’s most popular search provider actually claims that 20 percent of all Google searches are from people seeking information about local businesses. Long gone are the days of the ten-pound telephone book and its yellow pages. In today’s marketplace, using technology is absolutely critical when advertising for new customers, and to keep in touch with already established customers.</p>
<p>It’s easy to see that if your business is not readily available on the Internet, you will lose customers to your competitors that are.</p>
<h3><strong>Can’t Find Your Business Online? We Can Help!</strong></h3>
<p><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><strong><a href="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/searchplaces.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6" title="Google Places" src="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/searchplaces.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="336" /></a>1) </strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Google Place Pages</strong></span><br />
Google has given away 49,884,000 of these pre-designed, pre-indexed FREE websites that are already getting traffic from people looking for YOUR business. If you haven’t claimed yours yet, your business is losing revenue every day.</p>
<p><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><strong>2) </strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Organic Search Results</strong></span><br />
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of customizing your web site in order to maximize your ranking in search engine results. The better your SEO, the higher your website will rank here, and the more FREE exposure your website will get to potential customers.</p>
<p><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><strong>3) </strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Pay Per Click/Paid Search</strong></span><br />
Advertising via Pay Per Click (PPC) is the quickest way to show up on Google. PPC can get expensive fast and eat through advertising budgets in a snap, if not done correctly. RGV SEO can help you get a handle on PPC advertising costs, and get you to the top of Google in as little as one day.</p>
<h3><strong>Page One Ranking = More Exposure = More Customers</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/Map.jpg"><img src="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/Map-300x250.jpg" alt="" title="RGV SEO Services" width="300" height="250" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-112" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">Stop losing customers to the competition.</span><br />
New, potential customers are out there searching for YOUR business right now. They need your specific products and services, but if you can’t be found online, chances are that they’re finding your competitor first.</p>
<p>RGV SEO has helped many businesses get free exposure with a page one ranking on Google. For a small business, this exposure is extremely valuable as it not only works towards targeting relevant leads, but you’ll gain maximum exposure at a much lower cost than any other form of marketing.</p>
<h3><strong>Go Where Your Customers Are… Online!</strong></h3>
<p>If you are interested in keeping your business relevant in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven market, then it is essential that you get your business listed with Google Places. Google has made the process fast, easy, and free. With a little effort, you can have your own Places page up and running. Ensure that your page is a success by calling us, RGV SEO, where we specialize in Google optimization. We can be reached by phone at <strong>956-254-0456</strong>, or through our <a href="../contact"><strong>contact form</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>The Best Advertising Money Can&#8217;t Buy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If You Can&#8217;t Find Your Own Business On Google, Neither Can Your Customers&#8230; In order for your business to succeed, potential customers must know about it. The problem with this situation is that in order to promote your business you have to spend money on advertising. Further complicating the issue is that most of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/social-media-marketing.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49" title="Local Search Marketing" src="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/social-media-marketing-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>If You Can&#8217;t Find Your Own Business On Google, Neither Can Your Customers&#8230;</h2>
<p>In order for your business to succeed, potential customers must know about it. The problem with this situation is that in order to promote your business you have to spend money on advertising.</p>
<p>Further complicating the issue is that most of the advertising methods readily and locally available to you are not effective anymore, and are outrageously expensive.</p>
<p><strong>Print Advertising Doesn&#8217;t Work Anymore</strong><br />
Newspaper, Yellow Pages, TV, and radio advertising methods simply do not work as well anymore because people are using that media less every day.</p>
<p>People are now turning to the Internet for all the information they need via wireless laptops, mobile phones, handheld tablets, and home computers.</p>
<p>Your customers just don&#8217;t buy the newspaper anymore, and they rarely read magazines. Instead, they&#8217;re searching for your products and services on Google, Yahoo, and Bing.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re also looking for recommendations for your business from friends and family on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.</p>
<p>If your company is nowhere to be found in these places, you&#8217;re totally missing out on their business.</p>
<p><strong>The Best Advertising Is Free Advertising</strong><br />
Although the Internet offers advertising opportunities that can promote your business to billions of people, reach laser-targeted customers, and establish a one-on-one relationship with people&#8230; you don&#8217;t have to pay a single cent for advertising.</p>
<p>If you have the technical know-how and the time to learn how to use these systems, you will be able to benefit from unlimited amounts of&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Increased Exposure For Free</strong><br />
Since all of these services are free, you can eliminate all customer acquisition costs instantly! Created a custom Facebook business page, or a highlighted business listing and generate new revenue at absolutely no cost.</p>
<p><strong>Targeted Listings</strong><br />
People who find your Google Place page, or your Facebook business page, or your YouTube video are already looking for a business just like yours. This means that the exposure given by your listings is not only targeted, but based on active propects who are interested in what you have to offer.</p>
<p><strong>Increased Traffic To Your Online Website</strong><br />
If you have developed an online presence for your business, having a confirmed Google Place page will put your business up front and center. Therefore, helping you jumpstart your website and extend your brand.</p>
<p><strong>Local Business Search Marketing Is For Everyone</strong><br />
Whether you operate an established brick-and-mortar business, or run one out of your garage, you need to have an online presence for your business. Your competitors know this fact, and it&#8217;s definitely an edge they have over you.</p>
<p><strong>Contact Us To Get Started</strong><br />
Getting started with local business search marketing can be an overwhelming task for most business owners. Don&#8217;t allow information overload get the best of you, and hurt your business. <strong>Contact RGV SEO at 956-254-0456 today</strong>, and we&#8217;ll help you sort things out.</p>
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		<title>Why Your Business Needs A Facebook Vanity URL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Vanity URL For Your Facebook Business Page Is A Powerful Marketing Tool. During a recent meeting with a new customer, I was going over their proposal for some new marketing work that they wanted my company to carry out for them. This was for an engineering firm, and they wanted a lot of stuff! [...]]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">A Vanity URL For Your Facebook Business Page Is A Powerful Marketing Tool.</h3>
<p>During a recent meeting with a new customer, I was going over their proposal for some new marketing work that they wanted my company to carry out for them. This was for an engineering firm, and they wanted a lot of stuff! This is the type of customer that I love to work with because they&#8217;re a challenge, and we learn a lot from challenging projects.</p>
<p>As the meeting went along smoothly, the VP of sales began to drill me about Facebook. She brought up their Facebook fan page on the projector in the conference room, and I&#8217;ll admit that I wasn&#8217;t impressed when I saw it. As big as their enterprise is, I expected something dazzling and optimized to connect with people. However, they had about 5 &#8216;Likes,&#8217; and there wasn&#8217;t anything really worth noting on the page.</p>
<p>They also had a default Facebook URL for the page. It was something like</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>facebook.com/pages/XXXXXX/123457890389238</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Not very &#8216;sexy,&#8217; or even marketable, for that matter. I couldn&#8217;t believe that they hadn&#8217;t secured their vanity URL.</p>
<p>I asked the VP if she was interested in getting a vanity URL for her company.</p>
<p>She said&#8230; &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221;</p>
<p>I told her&#8230; &#8220;You know&#8230; it&#8217;s a Facebook address that goes something like&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>facebook.com/YourCompanyName</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>A huge grin lit up her face and she said&#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;ve always wondered what those were!&#8221;</p>
<p>Needless to say, we added that to the proposal, and they got their personalized Facebook address and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>Facebook vanity URLs are optional, but they add an extra level of professionalism to your business page and give you a shorter, more memorable web address for your business page.</p>
<p>A vanity URL is also great for advertising because it actually fits in your marketing materials and business cards.</p>
<p>You also don&#8217;t want to put it off or someone else could claim it before you do. So, you want to ensure that you get your business name before someone else does. <strong>Call RGV SEO at <span style="color: #ff6600;">956-254-0456</span>, and we&#8217;ll help you claim yours today.</strong></p>
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		<title>Time To Close Up Shop&#8230; Google Just Shut Down Your Local Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Unsuspecting Business Owners Are Finding Out That Their Online Presence Is Listed As &#8220;Permanently Closed&#8221; On Google In recent weeks, the media has been tearing Google apart for a loophole in their Google Places system that could allow anyone to report that a business has closed down. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Google Places, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18" title="Google Places" src="http://www.rgvseo.com/wp-content/uploads/places-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Several Unsuspecting Business Owners Are Finding Out That Their Online Presence Is Listed As &#8220;Permanently Closed&#8221; On Google</h2>
<p>In recent weeks, the media has been tearing Google apart for a loophole in their Google Places system that could allow anyone to report that a business has closed down.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Google Places, it&#8217;s a directory of local businesses that Google has created out of data gathered from general Internet users.</p>
<p>When you search Google for a term such as &#8220;Chicago locksmith,&#8221; you will get results consisting of Google Places, or actual brick-and-mortar businesses indicated by a teardrop shape with a letter in the middle. What makes matters worse for some business owners, is that these results will rank higher than their company websites. Since they are generated from data that Google itself has gathered, they are given preferential rankings in the search results.</p>
<p>If your business happens to be one that was reported as closed, it will say so on your business&#8217; Place Page. Visitors landing on your Place Page will likely not bother to call, or stop by your business because of the incorrect information on your Place Page.</p>
<h3>Google Errors Costing Local Businesses Thousands Of Dollars</h3>
<p>This false information has cost some businesses thousands of dollars in lost revenue and potential customers.</p>
<p>Although this flaw is prone to be abused by some unscrupulous individuals, most of the erroneous data comes from uneducated or misinformed users that did not have the technical capacity to correctly use the system.</p>
<p>However, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/technology/closed-in-error-on-google-places-merchants-seek-fixes.html?_r=3&amp;hpw" target="_blank">New York Times</a> has reported that some shady business owners have been akin to mark their competitors as permanently closed. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not too difficult to have a business listed as closed. By only carrying out a couple of clicks by a small number of people, your Google Place page could be made to report that your business is shut down.</p>
<h3>Claim &#038; Correct Wrong Information About Your Local Business</h3>
<p>Although business owners can correct the false information, it can take days or weeks for Google to update their system. The process is a bit complicated as it requires that you sign up for a Google account and answer a somewhat lenghty questionnaire about your business, and then Google mails you a postcard to verify your address. The postcard contains a verification code that must then be entered into the Google website by you, and then the process is complete.</p>
<p>Many business owners complain that they just do not have the time to go through the whole process. Many small businesses have been outsourcing this task to RGV SEO. We have staff trained and prepared to deal with this process from start to finish.</p>
<p>Google reported on their company blog that they&#8217;ve been working on a solution for about two weeks. Sadly, they had to learn about the abuse from the news buzzing around in the blogoshpere, as opposed to their own internal countermeasures for spam.</p>
<h3>We Can Fix Your Online Presence And Boost Your Exposure</h3>
<p>RGV SEO can help you claim your Google Place page to help keep Google from shutting your business down erroneously. Additionally, by letting us help you claim your Place page, you will have a professionally optimized profile on Google that will distinguish you from your competitors. Your business will gain a much more sophisticated and professional appearance that will engage your online visitors, and build a rapport with them through trust and technology.</p>
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