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I often recommend to clients that they consider adding more articles to their site via a blog.  The idea is to have an easy system to add content that is useful for both potential customers and search engines.  If you are a plumber the content doesn’t necessarily have to be about how to fix a […]

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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 […]

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As many of my readers now know The SEMMY Awards nominations have been announced and I am both a judge in the Small Business Marketing category and a nominee for the following posts:
Yelp SEO Analysis: Part One
Geotargeting Location By IP Address = SEO Death
As I was going through all of the Small Biz posts […]

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I have been asked to judge the Small Business category of the 2008 SEMMY Awards. The SEMMYS are for the best blog posts and articles in search marketing. The awards were conceived of by Matt McGee and the judges are a veritable who’s who of search bloggers (excluding yours truly of course - […]

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The votes are in and I am pleased to say that Matt McGee’s Small Business SEM blog was named the best local search blog of 2007 by the readers of SearchEngine Journal. As a regular reader of Matt’s work I can say that he puts a lot of effort into his blog and I […]

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Whether you have a small local business or a big global one asking customers what they want is a crucial component of growing a business, and one that is often overlooked in the day-to-day hustle of trying to get a product or service out the door. As I was preparing my editorial calendar for the […]

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Search Engine Journal has announced its nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 and I am proud to say that Local SEO Guide has been nominated for best Local Search Blog.  There are a number of other great local search blogs nominated including blogs by Greg Sterling, Matt McGee, Mike Blumenthal, Larry Sullivan, Peter […]

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When I started this blog my good friend, Matthew Yeomans of Custom Communication, UK social media consultants, told me that 99% of bloggers never make it past 90 days of blogging. Today is Local SEO Guide’s 90-day-mark and while it’s tempting to chuck it in (I am writing this at the breakfast table which […]

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The end of the year is the perfect time to point out some of my favorite sources of SEO information. For my readers in the SEO industry this is all going to be pretty old hat but for all of the rest I think you’ll find these links quite valuable. Here are […]

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If you want to see an example of a really hard-working blogger who writes exceptional articles on Internet marketing I suggest you check out Tamar Weinberg’s Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007. It’s an exhaustive list that should provide any Internet marketer with enough reading material for all of 2008. Here’s a […]

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