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Last week my post How to Find Vicki Iseman’s Bio - The SEO Way got a lot of traffic not only from Google blogsearch but also from Mahalo.com. I had submitted a link to the post on Mahalo’s Vicki Iseman page in the user-submitted links section. Mahalo is a SEO machine and its […]

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I will be at SMX West in Santa Clara this Wednesday in the afternoon and most of the day Thursday.  If any of my readers are going to be there and are interested in hooking up let me know.

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If you are thinking about generating a lot of reviews for your business on Google Maps’ write a review feature, I recommend you read this post about a business who lost all of their reviews on Google Maps.  As Miriam Ellis of SolasWebDesign tells it, Canoe Sport in Houston, TX asked their customers to review […]

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Ok this is not much of a SEO post but all politics is local right?
I was catching up on the whole sort of alleged John McCain lobbyist affair with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist for Alcade & Fay, and found a story about how Iseman’s bio was pulled from the firm’s website. If you are […]

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Hey gang,
While on vacation in Mexico I published a post about Citysearch perhaps having some issues with Google by providing links to advertisers without adding a nofollow tag. Matt McGee rightly pointed out that Citysearch is linking to advertisers via a redirect that will not provide any SEO value and therefore is not in […]

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A while ago David Mihm asked if I could provide guidance on how to optimize a business with multiple locations in the same geographic area. Well Dave, here at Local SEO Guide we aim to please, eventually:

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I run a pretty white hat local search engine optimization operation here but I often am tempted by the so-called dark side. If you talk to some black-hatters out there it just seems way too easy to game search engines for short term gains. So once in a while I get the urge […]

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It’s always nice to see a wacky idea you throw out there take wing.
Last month I wrote about how local businesses could market themselves on their local Freecycle group. Today I was talking to Matt McGee, Mr. Small Business Marketing himself, who relayed a story about how his wife, a realtor, took my advice […]

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With SEO sometimes the simplest tactics can have the biggest effect. Here’s some inexpensive SEO you can do today no matter how big or small your site is and probably get some quick results. I call it the “Page 2 Bump”.
1. Look at the keywords that are sending you good to ok traffic.
2. […]

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G’day!
Update:
Local SEO New Zealand

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And let’s not forget: Local SEO Luxembourg

And my personal triumph: Soup Nazi!

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