Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

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The Top IYPs In The US - According to Google

My bud Ahmed has put together a list of the top IYPs in the US based on reach derived from Google's stats. Nothing too surprising except that Citysearch is #1. I also think there are a number of…

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New Byrne Eno Album - Listen To It Here

Nothing to do with SEO or Local here. Just some great tunes by two of my favorite artists. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne & Brian Eno.

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Looking For a Jewish Wedding Guide?

Congratulations to reader Shimon, aka "The Shimonerator", our Local SEO Quiz winner #2. Shimon operates a Jewish wedding guide site. Shalom Simon! (try saying that ten times fast)

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See You At SES San Jose

I'll be walking the Expo floor on Tuesday if anyone wants to connect. And I'll be at the Internet Marketer's Charity Party Monday night if anyone wants to get a better idea of how to optimize…

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Centro Buys RealCities: Local SEO Quiz

Can you tell how Centro screwed up its purchase of RealCities from McClatchy? A clean link with the anchor text of your choice (within reason) to the first reader who figures it out. Tip to Greg…

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Centro Real Cities SEO Debacle

We have a winner for the quiz on how Centro screwed up the purchase of Real Cities by not talking to a SEO professional first. Actually we have multiple winners. Shane identified that Centro…

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Looking for Info on Gatlinburg, TN?

If so I suggest you check out one of our Local SEO Quiz winner's sites which is all about Gatlinburg, TN. Not too sure what happens in Gatlinburg, but it looks like it's a good place for renting…

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Local SEO Is On The Air

Justin Smith, a Colorado SEO Consultant, thought it might be a good use of bandwidth to interview me re local search. If you're into listening to me pretend like I know what I am talking about…

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Best of the Web Local Launches: Look Out IYPs

Just when you were thinking that the world needed one more online yellow pages with customer reviews, Best of the Web beat you to the punch and launched BOTW Local. So what makes this different…

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Judysbook: Back From The Dead?

Just stumbled upon the reincarnation of Judysbook. For you youngsters in the local search space, JB, along with Insiderpages and Yelp, was one of the original social-local-search poster children.…

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