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27 Feb This post is from from my other blog here There’s a lot of buzz here at SMX West about the new “Open Search” idea that Yahoo introduced yesterday. The reaction is generally very positive, and the official announcement on Yahoo’s search blog has also generated a lot of discussion and, no doubt, a lot of traffic. That announcement uses a restaurant listing from Yelp.com as its example, and as soon as I saw it, I thought Man, that’s some nice exposure for Yelp, isn’t it?. Here’s the image they used: 
People/webmasters everywhere read the Yahoo search blog, right? And that listing looks nice — it shows off the great content Yelp ...
25 Feb
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21 Feb This post is from from my other blog here For those of you who are new SBS 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. You can scroll to the end to see previous Flashbacks. Here come the links….
Don’t Miss: SBS Flashback: January 2007 SBS Flashback: December 2006 SBS Flashback: November 2006 SBS Flashback: October 2006 SBS Flashback: September 2006 SBS Flashback: August 2006 SBS Flashback: July 2006 SBS Flashback: June 2006 SBS Flashback: May 2006 This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business SEM.
21 Feb This post is from from my other blog here I suppose this was inevitable: Flickr has finally put the no-follow tag on some of the outbound links that users can place on the photo-sharing service. Here’s a look at the most recent photo on my personal photo stream, which includes a link to my personal blog, where I wrote about the photo in more detail: 
The pink highlight = a nofollowed link. That link is in the photo description that I wrote about my own photo, so now there’s no linking benefit to sharing photos on Flickr. Links that other users place in the comments on a photo are also ...
20 Feb This post is from from my other blog here
20 Feb This post is from from my other blog here Local search industry watchers have been saying for a while now that local search is primarily a search online, buy offline model. We look online for the right product, and then go buy it at a local store. I believe that to be a mostly accurate statement, although there are obvious exceptions. (I don’t go offline to make hotel reservations, for example, yet that is very much local search.) 
Anyway … if “search online, buy offline” is the dominant function of local search, you would think that retailers would be going out of their way to make that process easier. Circuit ...
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7 Things I Love About Small Business SEO Hope you like it. Meanwhile, Jan Norman of the Orange County Register ...
14 Feb This post is from from my other blog here A lot of great photographers are scared to put their photos online because it’s so easy for other people to steal their work. I totally understand that. I’m hardly a great photographer, and I don’t want people stealing my photos, either! But I do want them to use my photos. In the past year or two, bloggers and other content developers have clued in to Flickr as a great source of usable photography. And that opens up an opportunity for anyone with a camera! I’ve been sharing photos on Flickr since 2004. I use Creative Commons licensing to tell people, ...
13 Feb This post is from from my other blog here
13 Feb This post is from from my other blog here Hi readers,
One of my longtime readers and frequent commenters is reporting that she’s unable to login to SBS and share a comment. She says that the attempts to login are being recognized, but on returning to the post, she keeps being asked to login time after time. If you’re registered on this blog, would you mind trying to login and leave a comment on this post, please? (If you’re not registered, feel free to register and help out if you feel like it.) If you can’t login and/or comment, please email me to let me know. If you ...
13 Feb This post is from from my other blog here This is part three in a series on social marketing using Yahoo! Answers. If you missed earlier installments, please begin with the series introduction.
12 Feb This post is from from my other blog here
12 Feb This post is from from my other blog here I have a story to tell you. I was chatting with Andrew Shotland today and shared this with him, and realized it belongs here on SBS, too. First, the background
In the comments of Andrew’s post, I mentioned that I had been ...
12 Feb This post is from from my other blog here This is part two in a series on social marketing using Yahoo! Answers. You may want to start reading with the series introduction. Yahoo! Answers is a popular question-and-answer service that’s grown to be the #2 reference site on the Internet. With such heavy traffic, YA offers opportunities for some businesses and professionals to gain exposure, improve branding, and acquire web site traffic. And Yahoo! is perfectly fine with using the service this way, so long as you work within the site guidelines. Why Use Yahoo! AnswersYA is a natural fit for any business where knowledge and expertise is your main sales tool. ...
11 Feb This post is from from my other blog here This is part one in a series on social marketing using Yahoo! Answers. You may want to start reading with the series introduction. What Is Yahoo! Answers?Yahoo! Answers (YA for short) is one of Yahoo!’s social media success stories. The question-and-answer service launched in December, 2005, and, according to Hitwise, it surpassed the market share of the now-defunct Google Answers within two months. Usage Stats In August, 2007, comScore listed Yahoo! Answers as the #2 reference site on the web, behind only Wikipedia. Yahoo’s own data from the same time shows the site with millions of users and millions of answers in the ...
11 Feb This post is from from my other blog here Are you into social media marketing? If so, Yahoo! Answers probably isn’t very high on your radar. Sites like digg, StumbleUpon, and del.icio.us are talked about much more often. But when used correctly, Yahoo! Answers can be a vital complement to a social marketing plan.
09 Feb This post is from from my other blog here Hehehehe. With a travel schedule like this coming up, the only way to get ready is to have fun with it and make fun of it. I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into, but I have a feeling that conference burnout is right around the corner … six months from now. So, in the spirit of having fun with it, I’m announcing the… Matt McGee U.S. Tour 2008
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IF you believe you do or will get a fair amount of traffic from iPhone and iPod Touch users, THEN you should check out this WordPress plugin and theme from Content Robot. It creates an iPhone-friendly version of your blog theme for mobile users; people visiting your blog on a traditional browser see your regular theme. Pretty cool, eh? (found via Small Business Coaching and Transitions) This is a post from Matt McGee's blog, Small Business SEM. An "If/Then" for WordPress Bloggers
04 Feb This post is from from my other blog here Google Maps is already on the iPhone. It’s supposedly coming soon to gas stations. Google is even sending people door-to-door to promote Google Maps business listings. That may seem like a “let’s throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach to marketing, but the numbers show that Google’s non-stop effort to promote Google Maps is working. However, I suspect it’s much more to do with what Google is doing in its main SERPs than any of the above marketing ideas; the data seems to bear witness to that. Heather Hopkins recently shared data on the Hitwise blog that shows ...
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02 Feb This post is from from my other blog here If you’re a subscriber to the SBS RSS feed, be on the lookout tonight (and maybe tomorrow) for a potentially long “Matt added these links to his del.icio.us account” post. And they’ll be really old links being added, too.
01 Feb This post is from from my other blog here
The 2008 SEMMY Winners will be announced at 12:00 pm ET/9:00 am PT today at www.semmys.org. (I’m tempted to list each winner here on SBS, but that wouldn’t be right.) Each category winner will be revealed one-at-a-time, and I’ll cut the drama this time: There’ll only be one minute in between each winner announcement. Congrats to all the winners!
31 Jan This post is from from my other blog here Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during January. If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives. Only rule is that my own posts are not eligible. What about the SEMMYS?, you ask. Well, as I’ve been saying all along, the goal is to not be using these roundups for next year’s awards. Local Search
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I was quite happy a few weeks ago when I looked at the Search Engine Land columnists’ calendar and saw that my next “Small Is Beautiful” column would be published on Valentine’s Day. Any time you publish on a holiday or special event, you pretty much have a free pass to write a cheesy article and get to skip the monthly What on earth am I going to write about next? quandary. So, with that in mind, here’s my latest SEL column:
I need some help.
About a month ago, Andrew 
I’m signed up for every hotel and airline frequent flier bonus program, so something good better come from this. Here’s a look at where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing in ...
IF you run a 
In the early days of this blog, I used the CLIPPINGS feature inside Bloglines to save articles of interest. Now, I save all that stuff in 
Roll out the red carpet: We have winners in the inaugural SEMMY Awards, honoring some of the best content from the search marketing industry. We started with 127 authors representing 111 blogs/sites, and now we have one winner in 15 categories. 