If you find yourself on a very early flight sitting next to a 91-year-old woman named “Whiskey” do not acknowledge her in any way as she will spend the whole flight trying to engage you in a conversation about how she knew Mike Wallace back in the 40’s, and no matter what, when she asks […]
I recently got an email from a reader asking me for some quick advice on his website which was a local directory of a specific kind of business. I only had a minute but I wanted to give him something that would be helpful. I scanned his site and immediately noticed that the only way […]
If you are thinking you need some help with search engine optimization you are probably also wondering when is the right time to bring SEO into the process? And the answer is…right now.
I am in the Minneapolis airport in between connecting flights and couldn’t resist adding my $0.02 to the Google Phone announcement and how it relates to local search. Here’s the (extremely uninformed) deal:
If you could only add one more keyword to your site I would strongly suggest you consider the word “coupons”. I am hard-pressed to think of any other term that carries so much SEO juice. Everyone likes a deal after all.
My brother, David, ran into Roger Daltrey while walking to work the other day and found him to be a very nice guy. That’s not always the case when the Punk meets the Godfather.
A day late but it’s still beautiful to behold the magic of search engine optimization. Check out my latest #1 ranking in Google: search death locations Believe it or not someone just found my blog via this search. Whoever you are don’t do it! Think of rainbows and flowers and little babies in their booties […]
I was recently asked if a small business should start a blog and my initial reaction was something like “great idea but it’s probably not the right move for most small businesses given the time and energy required”. Then I thought that actually not every blog needs to be a daily or even weekly affair. […]
I am celebrating Local SEO Guide’s one month anniversary (and Halloween) of spewing forth thoughts on local search with a greatest hits post. For those of you new to these pages here are the top posts from the past 30 days. And here’s your tip of the day:
A client was recently told that they needed to build a custom content management system or CMS. If your web developer or head of engineering is telling you they need to build you a custom content management system and you have survived the initial heart attack, here are some recommendations (apologies for the formatting) for […]