LOC@L SEO GUIDE

And while I’m on the subject, Stever has a great post up on some tips for Encouraging Google +1 Votes for Local Business Websites. Key point for unsuspecting SMBs to take note of: “Forget the new schemes popping up to buy hundreds of plus 1 votes. Those will be meaningless to a local business as [...]

[Read more →]

SearchEngineLand just published Google Plus Connections Are The New Link, some thoughts of mine on how local search co’s and SMBs may try to leverage Google Search Plus Your World to improve local SEO. After rereading it, it seems clear that as more and more organic results are deemed to have “local intent”, the only [...]

[Read more →]

  I don’t recall seeing these little prompts in the search results before.

[Read more →]

  A few years ago on these august pages I did a post on Reputation Management Jujitsu as a way of obtaining links by saying nice things about companies with poor online reputations. The idea being that these companies are eager to link to blogs saying positive things about their brand. Now that Google Search [...]

[Read more →]

I couldn’t resist. Update: As of 2/10/12 this video has been seen over 170,000 times.  Achtung Baby!

[Read more →]

It’s a bit early to start writing the definitive Google Plus SEO Guide, but I think the above screenshot says all you need to know. When I am signed in, page one of searches for my name are dominated by my blog, my G+ profile and four of my recent G+ posts.  When I am [...]

[Read more →]

$5 for for $10 of food and drinks at Le Bateau Ivre Cafe.  Anyone want to meet me there for an espresso?

[Read more →]

Justin Sanger, CEO of JoinHere, an interesting new SMB “Social Engagement Platform”,  puts it thus: “A G+ and G Places integration will create the most powerful discovery, publishing, and social suite the marketplace has seen to date. The G maps algo will undergo more change as content contribution, followers, and +1s begin to affect discovery – [...]

[Read more →]

As you may have noticed over the past week the blog has morphed into Google Plus Guide. Local’s interesting and all, but G+ is where my head is at and I am liking it so I will keep posting until you stop reading. I have been fascinated by the original ways that Google Plussers (Plusters?) [...]

[Read more →]

I am reposting my “mother of all” Google Plus Tips & Shortcuts post because since I published it last week I have been steadily adding to it as new tips have come in. Not sure how many there are, but looks like about 50. Here are two of my recent faves: Install the Google CSS [...]

[Read more →]