Just caught Greg’s piece on Facebook’s new mobile local search feature: Facebook Gets Into Local Search with Facebook Nearby for iOS & Android. While I don’t expect Facebook Nearby to stay ad-free forever, with the entry of Facebook Nearby and Apple Maps, both ad-free, I’d say 2012 has been the most interesting year in the Local […]
A friend who is a former spook told me how he once smuggled an Arab man out of the Middle East. “I dressed him in short pants.” “Why?” I asked. “Because Arab men never wear shorts. People tend to only see what you tell them to see.” Which brings me to the following response I […]
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Low-T & Low-O www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive A new client has been seriously dinged by Google because their site is littered with SPAM. This is quite common for UGC sites where the U is a perv merchant or […]
Sorry for the dramatic headline – I am doing some research on how SEO/SEM agencies service SMBs and I am looking to do brief interviews with agencies that handle between 20-100ish SMB clients (or more if you want). If you fit the bill and are interested, please ping me via my contact form or via […]
I am at BIA Kelsey’s ILM West show today and tomorrow. Be sure to catch my panel: The Pros & Cons of SEO Outsourcing with Will Scott of SearchInfluence and Tim Judd of Elocallisting.com. If you’re around and want to catch up, please hunt me down. I am writing this from the lobby of the […]
Mike Blumenthal’s instant classic Google Local: Train Wreck at the Junction has spawned a lively Google Plus thread where various Localistas have been wringing their hands as to why oh why can’t Google stop screwing SMBs. While I am in agreement that Google Plus Place Local Multi Merge for Business Dashboardgate has been absolutely no […]
This just left on How To Add a Business To Internet Yellow Pages Listings For Free: My name is Carol and my ex-boyfriend dumped me 4 months ago after I caught him of having an affair with someone else and insulting him. I want him back in my life but he refuse to have any contact […]
A little Friday rant on the Apple Maps blog entitled Why Do Map Services Not Give a Shit About Businesses? Typical ignorant American that I am, I had never used Nokia’s maps. Then when they made their big, in-your-face-Apple/Google announcement, I had to check it out. The first thing I noticed was that there was […]
One of the more popular questions right? While I am sure the Googlers have been trying to figure out how Tweets can be a proxy for links, even though Matt Cutts claims Google is “leery” of social signals, I thought the social media reactions to yesterday’s post about Groupon SEO could illustrate Twitter’s SEO effect nicely. […]
The best SEO tactics are the ones that are discovered by accident, like Lexan. Last week, I stumbled upon a linkbuilding tactic so effective and simple that I felt compelled to share it here. It’s called Groupon. First off, linkbuilding is a painful SEO task. It’s painful to sell it to clients. It’s painful to […]