I was sitting on the above bench in front of the Porto Rico Importing Co. on Thompson St. in NYC this afternoon (great coffee btw) on a conference call with a new client. When I hung up I realized someone had been sitting next to me for quite some time eating her lunch and listening […]
I was speaking to a potential client last week and he mentioned that he had already spent a lot on PPC and now wanted to try SEO so he could get some “free traffic”. I hear this all of the time. While SEO can provide an amazing ROI, there still are costs associated with it […]
Read it again. And if you are in the Jewish investment mood I recommend finding out about a donor advised fund from JCF.
Nothing local or SEO about this. I just heard that Danny Federici, keyboard player for the E Street Band, died yesterday. The iPod will be tuned to Springsteen for the rest of the day in memory, particulary “The River”.
Under the “Why Didn’t I Think of That Category” check this out: These guys deserve a link for this one. Check out their social media marketing blog.
The recession, or whatever it is, could be like an earthquake for local search players. And if you’re one of them you may want to make sure you packed your brand in your earthquake survival kit. While at Ad:Tech I overheard a provider of local business information mentioning that they are getting more inquiries than […]
I often recommend to clients that they consider adding more articles to their site via a blog. The idea is to have an easy system to add content that is useful for both potential customers and search engines. If you are a plumber the content doesn’t necessarily have to be about how to fix a […]
TurnHere has already made a name for itself in the industry as the purveyors of online video for small businesses. Something must be in the air because I just got pinged by Steve Espinosa about Buzzspot.net a new service that provides affordable TV advertising to small and medium-sized businesses. Buzzspot is basically a reseller of […]
It has been widely reported that Google is now able to crawl through HTML forms like drop down menus. See Matt Cutts post and the Official Google Webmaster blog post for more excruciating detail. While this development is classified as an “experiment” by Google and “Only a small number of particularly useful sites receive this […]
I am thinking Google must be pretty sensitive to people spamming Google Maps. Earlier this week I posted about how SEO Champion had created fake addresses to show up for local searches for SEO in Pleasanton, CA and the surrounding areas. Mike Blumenthal followed up with his own mapspam investigation and found these guys were […]