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This article was first published by  iowabusinessjournals.com Let's say you operate a dental practice in Clive named “Clean Teeth.” You have a decent number of clients but you have the capacity to take on many more. The first moves are always the same: circulating ads in print and potentially local radio or TV. Next comes social media with a Facebook page and ads. The problem is advertising is great for market awareness but doesn't always convert to sales and social media is a bottomless ocean your business might drown in unless you are a particularly savvy poster. To take your fate into your own hands you need a tool that generates continual visibility with little work from you. This is the perfect situation to employ Search Engine Optimization. Best known as SEO, search engine optimization takes your businesses website and tailors it so sticks out to search engines. Without SEO in place a customer searching the web for a dentist in Clive may completely miss Clean Teeth. F...

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Oh my word, did you see what the new iPhone can do? It can wirelessly charge! It allows users to create custom emojis! You can edit screenshots! It has a processor five times as fast as lightning! THE SCREEN GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE EDGES! The new iPhone has pushed us literally to the edge of technological innovation. This truly is the greatest time to be alive! Except it is not. All the things Apple unveiled last month at their giant promotional event for the brand new iPhone 8, 8s, and iPhone X have been on the market for years. No they haven’t been available in iPhone form, but Samsung, LG, HTC, and Motorola –basically Android carrying phones– all offered one or all of the latest and greatest iPhone tricks. So why is the market reacting like Apple has flipped the tech world on its head? 10 years ago when the iPhone came out Steve Jobs truly revolutionized the tech world. There had been smartphones before, there had been pi...