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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In Memory of Danny Federici

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,…

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Great Example of How To Use Blogs To Get Customers

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…

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Affordable Local TV Advertising

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…

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New Google Form Crawling To Help Small Business Sites

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.…

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Google Hits The Mapspam Filter

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…

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Grayboxx Gets Darker - Sells to Bay Advisor

Bob Chandra, CEO of Grayboxx, a local search start-up, just informed me that the company is selling its IP to Bay Advisor. Grayboxx launched last year with a lot of industry interest in their…

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Grayboxx Update

I may have given the wrong impression with my previous post that Grayboxx is shutting down when in fact they have been acquired. Sorry for the confusion.

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Google Mapspam Hits Too Close To Home

I have been following the recent mapspam sightings with great interest. Location is a key factor in local search, so it's no wonder that "entrepreneurial" marketers are doing there best to screw…

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Start Ups: Is Your SEO Plan Ready On Day One?

Greg Sterling's post today on the LA Times article about a shakeout for Internet start-ups should be a 3am wake up call for start-up CEOs. And one of their first calls should be to a SEO expert. I…

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SEO Keyword Research Basics

If you have ever wondered why you should hire a SEO expert instead of doing it yourself, check out Jill Whalen's two informative how-to pieces on the basics of keyword research. If you read the…

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