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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Small Business Online Video Ads Ready For Primetime?

The WSJ writes today about the emergence on online video advertising for small businesses. According to the article some advertisers are seeing great performance. This bodes well for the growing…

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Mike Blumenthal's Local Search Ranking Factors Presentation

is now live on Mike's site. He presented this at SMX Local last month and I am bummed I missed it. In my opinion there are few people who understand Google Maps outside of Google as well as Mike.…

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Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade Missing Categories Solution

You may have noticed that the category list on this blog had been MIA for the past two weeks. They were a victim of using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6. Fixing…

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Comment Spamming Do Follow Blogs For Dummies

This blog has made it on to a number of DoFollow blog directories and as a result every day I get a number of comment spammers telling me how valuable one of my posts is in hopes of getting a…

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I'll Be Less Cranky Next Week

promise. But Paris still sucks. Have a great weekend.

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The Paris Hilton McCain Ad Was Not Funny

Off topic, but if you were in the "man that Paris Hilton campaign ad was hilarious" camp I think you need to do some soul searching this weekend. Sure it was a "fun" idea, but the execution had "I…

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MSN Can't Even Find Microsoft: Why Local Search Still Sucks!

Looking for the number for Microsoft's Mountain View office Searched "microsoft mountain view ca" in Google. They had the wrong number. Searched "microsoft mountain view ca" in Yahoo. They had the…

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Search Engine Optimization & Google Insights

For those of you who haven't checked out Google Insights yet, I definitely recommend it for keyword research. In short the tool provides you with trend data on how popular a keyword search has…

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Dear Readers, I Could Use A Weekend Ego Boost

One of the fun things about being in the SEO game is that you pay attention to all of the strange terms that you rank for such as "charlie rose bad suits". I just noticed that I now rank on page…

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The Prescription For Newspapers

Mark Potts, formerly of BackFence, has some great ideas for how newspapers can get back in the game by learning how to go after the small business market.

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