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An Interview With Jason Calacanis: Kelsey ILM 07

If you don't follow Jason this is probably a worthless read. He has developed quite a reputation in the SEO community and so this post is for my SEO readers out there. Jason was interviewed at the…

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Small Ads For Older People

Haven't had a lot of time to post over the past couple of days but I'll be back next week with more recaps from the mind-blowing Kelsey Interactive Local Media conference. In the meantime I…

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Best Practices for Using PPC for Local Targeting: Kelsey ILM 07

What follows are my perceptions and/or misperceptions of the panel on local search ad targeting at the Kelsey ILM Conference: Panelists: Court Cunningham, CEO, Yodle Brad Geddes, LocalLaunch Simon…

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Has Facebook Consulted A Patent Attorney For Its Social Ads System?

I just heard a presentation from Facebook on its social ads system where you can use referrals from a customer as part of your ad to promote your business across a social network. I am no attorney…

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Has Facebook Solved Local Search?

Here's what I am getting from the ILM presentation by Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Product Marketing & Operations, Facebook: Facebook = big: 55 million active users 250,000 new users per day One…

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How Do You Get Local Links?

Matt Stoddardt of Linkworth offers these tips on how to get local links: Get the obvious local links BBB Chambers of Commerce Search city+state+associations to find relevant local organizations.…

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How To Find A Good Link?

Ian McAnerin of McAnerin Networks offers these tips to finding good links: Search Google: If it's in Google chances are it's a page worth getting a link from. I don't totally agree with this but…

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Live Blogging The Kelsey Group's ILM:07 Local Search Conference

Just a note to my readers that I have touched down in LA and will (maybe) live blog some of the local search sessions - definitely not the one I am in at 11 though.

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Matt Booth's 2008 Predictions for The Yellow Pages Companies

Here it is straight from the man who spends all day long talking to Yellow Pages companies: 2008 will be the year of multi-channel expansion driven by yellow page companies. These co's will start…

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Cyber Monday Shopping Traffic - SEO for Google Blog Search

Yesterday I wrote about how a business could prepare for big events like Black Monday sales by creating content on your site that targets keywords people might be looking for. The post generated…

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