In a previous post I stated that Facebook Local could end up being a very important marketing opportunity for you business. Since then, thousands of businesses have created Facebook Pages – simple templates to create a page about your service that can be promoted via Facebook’s social network. In principle the more networked your business’ […]
Hey readers, Webvisible just raised a bunch of money and Spotrunner just bought Weblistic. I am curious if any of you out there have used any of the local search engine advertising solutions like ReachLocal, Webvisible, OrangeSoda, etc. and what your experiences have been. If you have some thoughts please email them to me at […]
I know what you’re thinking – how is he going to tie these unrelated concepts together? Well, just as it took the IRS to uncover a connection between Elliot Spitzer and the Emperors Club VIP escort service, it also takes a true SEO obsessive to tie these two headline grabbers to local search engine optimization […]
Many SEO practitioners bolt on extra navigation links to improve internal linking to important pages but I just noticed something on this blog that suggests that links inside of content (i.e. in the center part of the page) probably have more power, something which has been noted on other popular SEO blogs. For those of […]
I just got an email from the Kelsey Group re their next local search conference – Drilling Down on Local 2008: Marketplaces coming up in Seattle in April. For those of you interested in really digging into the business of local there is no better venue than the Kelsey conferences. I remember when these conferences […]
I pride myself on being able to explain SEO concepts in a clear, simple fashion to my clients, but today a potential client told me that for her SEO was about as “clear as mud”. I think we all have subject matter where we naturally tune out and the information has hard time sinking in. […]
A reader recently asked me how to generate buzz locally online. If you are going to promote yourself locally one of the first things you need to know is how to find a local audience. So I thought it might be helpful to put together this list of local online media: General Web Search Engines […]
Way back when I met Laurence Hooper who at the time was head product guy on AOL’s local search. He left AOL last year and I stumbled upon his blog one day where he was talking about a new local search service he was working on called Loladex. For whatever reason I checked it out […]
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 Vicki Iseman […]
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.