I will be sort of liveblogging SMX Advanced next week – maybe. I say “maybe” because every attendee at the show will probably be liveblogging it, Twittering it, Sphinning it and generally doing anything they can to make sure you know that this is the most awesome search marketing event in the land. Maybe I’ll […]
Nice piece over at Stephen Espinosa’s blog on how reviews affect local search rankings along with some helpful tips. There’s a reason why his profile name is “McStud”.
Since I am now trading in local search gossip and innuendo (maybe I should turn this blog into Valleywag Local), I thought you might be interested in a little Twitter-based speculation. I just noticed on Emad Fanous’ Twitter Page that he is now “in the city of brotherly love”. Now this could be a Tweet […]
In our last episode local search start-up Grayboxx had apparently been sold to Bay Advisor who was going to exploit Grayboxx’s PreferenceScoring technology in new and fantastical ways. Now word on the street is that Grayboxx walked away from that deal because its backers thought they could get a better one elsewhere. At the time […]
For those of you who tuned into my discussion with Mr. Internet Poker yesterday I thought it would be helpful to understand why I do not put nofollow tags on links to commenters. My good friend, Mr. Andy Beard, puts it best in his post Why You Should NoFollow Your Blog Comments? So if you […]
In my previous post we discussed what happens when the “home page not indexed” warning lights go on. Today let’s talk about the fact that sometimes your pages just disappear from Google. This happened last week with a client. Their rankings just tanked, particularly for a niche term that we had been working on. This […]
That was the subtext of the email a client sent me last Wednesday. He had just launched his beautiful new site and had received a boatload of press attention. Yet the home page of the site was not appearing in Google’s index even though every other page was. We submitted a sitemap to Google and […]
I was perusing Sphinn this morning and found 400 Quality Links that Deliver Both Immediate Traffic and Search Rankings on the ConversionStats blog. If you are looking for a way to increase inbound links to your site this would be a great place to start. Nice work guys.
Don Campbell has a pretty good overview of Yahoo Search Monkey and it’s relevance for online marketers.
No sooner do I join the Twitter revolution then Sebastien P. comes out with this.