Grayboxx Update
I may have given the wrong impression with my previous post that Grayboxx is shutting down when in fact they have been acquired. Sorry for the confusion.
Grayboxx Gets Darker – Sells to Bay Advisor
Bob Chandra, CEO of Grayboxx, a local search start-up, just informed me that the company is selling its IP to Bay Advisor. Grayboxx launched last year with a lot of industry interest in their “Preference Scoring” algorithm. Grayboxx had aggregated data about businesses and ranked those businesses according to their mysterious formula.
Google Mapspam Hits Too Close To Home
I have been following the recent mapspam sightings with great interest. Location is a key factor in local search, so it’s no wonder that “entrepreneurial” marketers are doing there best to screw with Google’s (and other’s) fabulous mapping creations. To some extent I am willing to look the other way when a fellow SEO wants […]
Start Ups: Is Your SEO Plan Ready On Day One?
Greg Sterling’s post today on the LA Times article about a shakeout for Internet start-ups should be a 3am wake up call for start-up CEOs. And one of their first calls should be to a SEO expert.
SEO Keyword Research Basics
If you have ever wondered why you should hire a SEO expert instead of doing it yourself, check out Jill Whalen’s two informative how-to pieces on the basics of keyword research. If you read the articles you will get an idea of how much time and grunt-work is involved. None of it is rocket science, […]
What is Tremelimumab?
Looking through Google Trends today and saw that a lot of people are searching for Tremelimumab. I continue to be strangely obsessed with how many weird terms exist and how many people search for them. Some of my faves from this week:
Event-Based SEO – Fish Where The Fish Are
Trade shows and professional gatherings such as Meetups can be great for your business. You get access to a lot of potential customers in one place and they are usually there to do business. So what’s the next best thing to going to a trade show? Ranking at the top of Google for searches for […]
Why Won’t The Yellow Pages Die Already?
Just found this article from Slate about the history of phone books, how they create so much waste and the opt-out movement that’s floating around several states. The quote that caught my attention is something we may have all heard before but put in a way that is pretty stark:
Loladex Updates Facebook Local App
Dan Goodman of Loladex, a recently launched local search service on Facebook, tells me that the company has launched an update today improving the UI and adding a bunch of local search filters (category, distance, etc.). The service is focused on the Washington, DC area for now but clearly has national intentions. The new UI […]
GenieKnowsLocal – New Local Search Engine
I just got an email from the folks at GenieKnows announcing their new local search engine at local.genieknows.com. I haven’t had a chance to look it over but it might be worth checking out. They also do game search and health search and it’s a little funny to see “games” and “health” as options next […]