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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 […]

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If you are thinking about generating a lot of reviews for your business on Google Maps’ write a review feature, I recommend you read this post about a business who lost all of their reviews on Google Maps.  As Miriam Ellis of SolasWebDesign tells it, Canoe Sport in Houston, TX asked their customers to review […]

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A while ago David Mihm asked if I could provide guidance on how to optimize a business with multiple locations in the same geographic area. Well Dave, here at Local SEO Guide we aim to please, eventually:

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As part of my presentation at SMX Local I put together a list of all of the “social IYPs”, or national yellow pages sites that allow customer reviews. There was quite a discussion about how trustworthy these reviews were. Greg Sterling has a recap of that discussion on his blog. Paul Ryan, CEO […]

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Internet yellow pages sites (IYPs) generate a lot of traffic. Superpages.com has over 21 million visitors per month. Yellowpages.com has over 19 million. A lot of this traffic comes from search engine optimization. The IYPs target two main types of searches – business name searches (e.g. Joe’s Plumbing) and city/category searches […]

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