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Late Monday, Facebook announced a limited-release launch of Facebook Deals, which is a group-based local coupon deals that will rival Groupon and LivingSocial. Facebook Deals launches a trial balloon run on Tuesday in five American cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco. This is big news. If Facebook Deals takes off--and most insiders think it will--it offers tremendous new ways for your business to create more leads and sales by harnessing the power of Facebook. Facebook Deals will

National Positions CEO Bernard May and Creative Director Matt Vandewovwer led our webinar, "How to Convert Traffic Into MORE Leads and Sales." We've posted the webinar on our site with the corresponding slides. Learn how to use your website to maximize your profits. Click here to watch the webinar and get a FREE Conversion Audit!

Of the many things that impact your company's online exposure, your website URL is certainly an important one. It won't make or break your rankings in the search engines. However, the search engine crawlers don't have eyes and ears and you want to do everything you can to guide them to your website's content. The more easily your site's pages get mapped and indexed, the higher your site's rankings will be. And one of the ways to guide the crawlers

On Wednesday, Google announced that it is launching a new social search button called the +1. This news is being interpreted as Google's answer to Facebook's like button. Indeed, many see this as Google's attempt to take a page from Facebook and incorporate social search into its search results. The +1 button is going to appear right next to Google's search results as well as its AdWords ads. Soon, site owners and web publishers will be allowed to add the

Online videos are a tremendous marketing resource for your business. Firstly, videos provide your business with much more dynamic content than text because your prospects and customers respond more quickly and more powerfully to visuals than to words on a page. Thus, videos create a stronger brand awareness for your business. But that's not all. Just as importantly, videos can provide your business with a huge boost in the rankings and search results on Google and YouTube, dramatically improving your

Given our last two posts on blogging for business (how to drive traffic and how to create leads) we'd like to share one of our National Positions University videos: "How to generate search friendly content for my website?" You want to create plenty of search engine friendly content. This is because quality organic content is great for your site’s rankings. Google loves dynamic content. The more unique content your site has, the more relevant your site is viewed in the