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  • Is Your Business on the Map?
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    Is Your Business on the Map?

    ByPaula Jensen February 23, 2019January 13, 2019

    About sunrise on Thursday, November 16, 2017, there was report of strong smell of petroleum and a potential oil leak along the TransCanada pipeline that runs through Marshall County, South Dakota. The leak was identified by a farmer 10 miles west and north of Langford (where I live) and approximately 10 miles from Britton. By…

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  • SEO for voice search is different for rural small business
    entrepreneurship | marketing | rural | tech

    SEO for voice search is different for rural small business

    ByBecky McCray January 28, 2019January 28, 2019

      For years, we’ve all worked on SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, to get our names out there and associated with specific words and phrases we knew our customers would type into a search engine to find us. Now that customers are saying their searches out loud, how does that change things? Today’s voice searches…

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