Great post from Muckerlab on the agony and the ecstasy of Local: “By my count, around 100 startups focused on local were launched between Q2 and Q3 of 2011. there are mobile apps, deals/offers companies, social relationship management dashboards, ad networks, merchant acquiring/ processing solutions and more. (Although the slow down in the last 30-60 […]
This client’s organic traffic is up almost 100% over the same period:
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Since Google Places started adding more photos to Place Pages I have been noticing a fair amount of wackiness. So the tip of the day is to check your Place Page and make sure the photos are to your liking. As Mike Blumenthal found things can go from Rated G to Rated X in no […]
I know I should put my phone number on the Do Not Call List, but I actually find it interesting to see who ends up calling. My wife of course finds it incredibly annoying. But it blows my mind that by far the majority of sales calls are from people trying to sell me SEO […]
Regular readers know that I occasionally post job openings I hear about via my network. I am proud to say that several people have found jobs through these posts and several companies have found excellent candidates. Just doing my part to keep the economy humming. This week’s local search job of the week comes from […]
I am currently in Prague at the EIDQ conference and have been feeling a bit lame re my lack of blogging as of late so I thought I would offer a link to this Patch article I found that offers up some upbeat economic news – so tired of the downer stuff: Pleasanton Economy: Downtown […]
I am going to be at Borrell’s Local Mobile Advertising Conference in Chicago next week. I’ll be moderating the “Mobile by the Numbers” panel. If you’re going to be there let me know and want to connect let me know.
A few months ago I was working on a SEO project for a big news site around testing various strategies to improve traffic from Google News and was trying to figure out a thorny issue. I started searching Google for some genius post on the subject but found nothing. I have done a fair amount […]
A frustrated practitioner of bail bonds SEO laments about Google Places, Where Crooked Businesses Take Over: “Here’s another great example of the wonder of Google Places and Google’s dealings with Local Search. Type in Google, “Santa Clarita Bail Bonds.” (this example could be done for many other keywords if you care to try) You will see […]