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21 Mar This post is from from my other blog here As you can tell, I’m messing with themes and design and CSS and layouts and all that stuff I stopped doing professionally several years ago. I’m about 75% finished, so this is very much a work-in-progress. If you notice anything really bizarre, feel free to leave a comment. Advertisement: Try Site5 Web Hosting free for 30 days! 99.9% Uptime Guarantee and our customer’s love us! This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business Search Marketing. Working on a new look Related posts:
19 Mar This post is from from my other blog here If you live in or near the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, area, consider yourself invited to the second GetListed.org Local University event. It’s happening May 13th in Edina, with two identical half-day seminars planned to teach small businesses how to increase visibility and do better business via local search.
I’m one of a handful of speakers on the schedule, along with GetListed.org co-founder David Mihm, plus Mike Blumenthal, Mary Bowling, Ed Reese, and Minnesota’s own Aaron Weiche. Reps from Google Local and Bing Local will also be speaking and answering audience questions about their local marketing tools for small business owners.
19 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Thanks to a good question on Twitter from John McPhee, I discovered this week that Google is crawling business profiles on Foursquare and using them as citations in Google Maps. They’re not, however, crawling Gowalla business profiles. More on that below, along with some bugs in how Google is using Foursquare as a citation source. First, let’s look at what’s going on from a more general perspective. Foursquare as a Google Maps CitationYou can use the common site: search command to find out if any site is being used as a citation source in Google Maps. And when you search for ...
18 Mar This post is from from my other blog here For those of you who are new SBSM readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month to introduce new readers to old content that might be worth reading.
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16 Mar This post is from from my other blog here It’s bad enough when vendors offer real estate SEO services and/or advice that isn’t worth a dime … but what about when the national organization that’s supposed to support real estate agents starts spreading around misinformation to its members? The National Association of REALTORS® offered up some SEO tips in its official magazine last month via an article titled “6 Weeks to Better Search Engine Results.”
14 Mar This post is from from my other blog here
Your office pool is fun, but how about competing against fellow search marketers far and wide? It’s time for the 4th Annual “SEO Madness” College Hoops Pool, where we all make our March Madness picks, and the winner gets the links. Teams and brackets are being announced today and you can sign-up now. Here’s what you need to know: What’s it cost? Nada. Free. All you need is a Yahoo account. Where do I join? Sign-up here. This link should put you directly into the SEO Madness 2010 group, but if not, you’ll need this info: Group ID: 60624 Group password: seorocks That’s all! Get yourself ...
12 Mar This post is from from my other blog here
While I do admire the loyalty they’ve built up amongst users, I’m actually more in the middle than the article portrays. I really believe Yelp needs to improve its overall messaging to small business owners if it wants to gain wider adoption and acceptance as a marketing channel. And, as I posited in my earlier post on Yelp this week, I definitely wonder if “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” applies to ...
12 Mar This post is from from my other blog here This isn’t exactly news anymore, but it’s worth noting that two more reports this week confirm the idea that consumers tend to do their research online prior to buying offline/locally. The first is a Kelsey Group study that indicates 97% of consumers use the Internet to research products or services in their local area. What specific online research tools do they use?
If consumers are starting the local buying process online, this reinforces the value of great local content, local SEO, and local visibility in general. In ...
11 Mar This post is from from my other blog here My worlds are colliding. I mean my “U2 world” and my “SEO world.” I try to keep them separate, but this story makes that impossible. Check it out on the Somerset County Gazette web site. Apparently, a local/small business owner recently got a job fixing a broken GRAMMY Award that belongs to U2. The article makes several cheesy references to U2 song titles, but here’s the part that matters: “…one of the band’s management team got in touch after typing in ‘trophy repairs’ into Google.”SEO FTW! Advertisement: Never miss another fax again! Starting as Low as $6.95 mo. Nextiva vfax is a professional-quality ...
10 Mar This post is from from my other blog here That was one of the topics of Luther Lowe’s presentation Tuesday at the annual SearchFest conference in Portland. Lowe — Yelp’s Manager of Business Outreach — gave a generally clear description of what the company says are the benefits of advertising on Yelp. I say “generally” because he said that advertising on Yelp gets a business owner “SEO,” but he really meant to say “visibility.” These are not the same examples he used during the presentation, but they show the same points he made. 1. Visibility on Yelp search result pages Advertising on Yelp gives a business the opportunity to show up above ...
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I like the idea behind the article — simplifying some of the low-hanging SEO fruit into tasks that can be worked on one week at a time. Good idea. But some of the specific advice ...
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