image from sodahead 16 years ago I participated in something called “Project Ohio” – the partnership between NBC and Microsoft to create the awesomely named MSNBC. Today NBC is buying full control of MSNBC from Microsoft and is changing MSNBC.com to NBCNews.com – only they forgot to tell the SEO guy. Go to […]
1. Don’t block Googlebot or Bingbot from crawling your site in your robots.txt file 2. Don’t serve 403 response codes to a browser when the user-agent = Googlebot or Bingbot 3. Check out #1 Search Engine Ranking Factor: SEO QA And every little thing gonna be alright…
This past February, in The Non-Place-Place Use Case I posted about how Google was delisting businesses that did not service customers at their locations but had not requested their addresses be hidden on Google Maps. Mike, Miriam and others chimed in on how lame this was. Today, I got this email about this “recent” update: Guess […]
From the get-go, Yelp has always been a spammer’s paradise. Within a day or two of Yelp launching member profile photos, Jeremy Stoppleman emailed me asking me to stop spamming Yelp simply because I used another member’s photo for my own to test out the functionality. I take great pride in having beem Yelp Spammer […]
Chuck Skoda on Apple Passbook from his post, A Week With iOS6: Passbook is a bit of a strange one. To me, it’s this years Newsstand. Newsstand still sits empty on my last page of apps. There isn’t a single publication I’ve seen that has enticed me to pull the trigger on a subscription, and I […]
Didn’t want to get anything done today anyhow. David Mihm’s latest edition of the Local Search Ranking Factors Survey is now out. As tradition dictates, I will summarize the findings and then send you over to David’s blog for the full Monty: Top 10 Local Search Ranking Factors for 2012: Physical Address in City of Search […]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to support The Oatmeal with targeted anchor text about how some crap site called FunnyJunk is ripping off his content. Reminds me of my buds at Sam Schwartz. And don’t forget to donate to Operation BearLove.
Looks like you may need to start brushing up on your 3D Local SEO skills: source: TheVerge Seriously, between Apple Passbook and the upcoming Apple Maps, Apple/iOS stands to become a major force in local search (as if it weren’t already). Get ready for an onslaught of bullshit Apple Maps Ranking Factors posts like this […]
or something like that. I am not even 100% sure what it is yet other than a place to store all of your tickets and promotions, but I am pretty sure it becomes the de facto local payments system for anyone with an iPhone. And speaking of payments, check out Your guide to SEPA Direct […]
As you probably know, I have been on the lookout for signs that Google was squeezing local directories out of the SERPs. While the launch of Google+ Local is not necessarily the death knell for IYPs getting organic traffic, it certainly is yet another omen, kind of like what happened at Damien’s birthday party (that […]