Google Images’ New Design Gets It Right
After three years of hard work I am now #1 on the planet for “andrew”! Feel free to throw a few more links this way with “andrew” in the anchor text to reinforce my position of global andrew domination. 🙂 That dude at #2 has owned the #1 spot for years. I love the smell […]
Google Takes More Real Estate For Business Name Search
With all of the brouhaha going on about Google’s test of a new local SERP for category searches that will make it much harder for local directories to get traffic, I became almost willfully blind to the more subtle change that had occurred to the SERP for business name queries. Thanks to Patrick Altoft for […]
Will Small Business SEO Get Even More Cut-Throat?
Chris Silver Smith brings up a great point in today’s Local’s Only column about Google’s new local SERP design they are testing: …you might think that the newer, larger listing treatment might be beneficial for the visibility of these businesses. But, think again—for any of them which have been doing significant search marketing activities, this […]
Article Syndication Still Works for Local SEO
In case you were in doubt about this spammy technique for getting rankings check out the “News” results in this Google SERP for this highly competitive query:
Dead Fingers Walking?
To: Local Directory Sites From: Google Subject: A Little Head’s Up As you may have heard, we’ve been testing a new design for the SERPs we display when we detect a query with local intent. In the past these results have typically been a mix of local businesses, local directories and other random sites that […]
Google May Have Just Locked Me In…
I am in the initial roll-out group for being able to upload a background image to Google’s home page. I love it. I love Bing’s amazing photos on its homepage, but I love seeing my daughter cruising down a slide even more:
Google Exposes Your Competition
In general you should know who your competition is in the SERPs, but Google just made it easier (unless I have totally missed this feature for months which is possible). I just noticed a “Pages similar to ” widget at the bottom of the results. Here’s what I got when I queried “localseoguide” It appears […]
It’s MayDay for Yellow Pages Sites
image liberally appropriated from Roger Hollander Thanks to Vanessa Fox as always for eliciting grains of truth from Google. At last week’s Google I/O conference Matt Cutts confirmed that there was an algo change at the beginning of May that will likely be affecting sites that generate a lot of long-tail traffic: ”this is an […]
Google Places Questions Answered
Mike Blumenthal has a great recap of a recent webinar held by the Google Places team where they answered a lot of frequently asked questions. Here are a couple of my faves: Q: Can we use call tracking phone numbers in our listings? if not, why? A: No, please use the most local phone number […]