A friend just recommended The 4 Hour Body by Timothy Ferris, author of The Four Hour Work Week, as a great holiday gift, so I went over to Amazon to check it out. I must confess that while I was intrigued by the whole Four Hour Work Week concept and ensuing media blitz, I also […]
This morning at the BIA Kelsey’s 2010 Interactive Local Media conference, we’ll be introducing a new partnership between Local SEO Guide and BK – a new local social consulting practice for BK clients. I will be working with them as the Practice Director to help clients chart the social media waters (Have no fear LocalSEOGuide […]
No doubt you may have read about how some jerk used his bad reputation to rank better in Google and rip people off. Today Google announced that they have tweaked their algorithm to demote businesses that have bad reputations. And I quote: we developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article […]
I noticed “Hotpot” was trending on Twitter and discovered that tonight Google launched it’s response to Yelp and all of the other local social recommendation thingies. Don’t have time for a pseudo-thoughtful post on the subject so I thought a few screenshots would do. More later:
While putting together the Top 10 Reviews Sites In Google Place Search report, we noticed what we thought were testimonials from a business’ website showing up in the reviews section of the result. See the below screenshot from a SERP for “Los Angeles Car Dealers“: In its FAQ on Rich Snippets, Google states that testimonials […]
Readers of this collection of hypertext may recall my tale of woe in dealing with a San Jose Auto Repair shop who done me wrong last year. The subtitle of that little missive was “A lesson in reputation management” and the subsequent flames that sprung up on various local reviews sites showed how rubbing someone […]
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 […]
I haven’t seen them live on Yelp yet because years ago Jeremy Stoppleman banned my email address, but that’s another story. The big question – are Facebook’s Like buttons complementary to reviews or do they cannibalize them?
Last week Google launched a controversial new feature on local Place Pages – a list of nearby businesses that promotes local competitors on a business’ Place Page, even if that business has claimed their GLBC profile. With this move Google has perhaps decided that the Yellow Pages industry is totally off their rockers – many […]
I just sent an email out to a bunch of local seo types and saw this on the “message sent” confirmation screen: