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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Video Optimization: Is Your Dentist Ready for His Close-Up?

If video SEO is in the NY Times you know it’s gone mainstream. Yesterday the Times ran a piece on how a dentist in Pennsylvania has posted a video about root canal on YouTube to explain the…

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The Value of Links Back To Your Site (A Case Study)

There have been trillions of words written about how valuable it is for search engine optimization to get links back to your site from relevant sites with targeted keywords in the text of those…

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Yellow Pages SEO 3.0 (a.k.a. The New New Yellow Pages)

If you soaked up every excruciating detail of How To Turn Your Site Into An Online Yellow Pages you know that I am a big believer in the power of small businesses to attract a lot of the search…

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Judysbook R.I.P.

In case you're interested and hadn't seen the news, Judysbook, one of the original "social-local" search companies, is shutting down most of its operations and looking for a buyer. More on this…

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Why Is Your Business Information Out of Date?

How many times have you found out of date information about your business on the Web? At Insider Pages we averaged several inquiries per day from disgruntled businesses because we were displaying…

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How to Rank #1 in Online Yellow Pages

This one’s a little crazy, but it’s guaranteed to get you local search traffic. The good news about many online yellow pages sites is that their formulas for displaying results are a lot easier to…

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Blogrush Inactive Now Active

For those of you who have been following this story, Blogrush's CEO, John Reese, looked into my case and found that my Blogrush account was deactivated because of a typo I made in their system. I…

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Blogrush Inactive - They've Got That Right.

Sorry for the deviation from local search but this just in - You may have noticed I had been running a Blogrush widget on the side of these pages over the past couple of weeks. Not anymore. I just…

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How To Add a Business To Internet Yellow Pages Listings For Free

How to get free yellow pages listings on top local search sites and IYPs. A guide to Internet Yellow Pages sites and Google free business listings.

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If You've Ever Been To A Dentist, This Post Is For You

You know you’ve got a problem with blogging when you’re high on nitrous oxide smelling the burning fragments of an old filling that’s being drilled and all you can think about is how this would…

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