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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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Was Possum The Near Me Update?

Local SEO strategies targeting "near me" queries in the Local Organic section of the SERPs (the non-Local-Pack/Map results) have been kind of a thing for a few years what with Google making it a…

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DanBlog

Are Your SEO Operations Tired, Run-down and Listless?

Then you might want to try adding some Lean Startup/Agile methodologies to your process. It works wonders for us, and is so tasty too! If you are interested in learning more, check out my post…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Apple Maps Needs Some SEO Help...Better Hope It Doesn't Get Any

Kind of big news in Apple Maps land. 9to5Mac reports that Apple Maps now has public web pages for some Points of Interest and Landmarks. And if these URLs are public, that means they're indexed in…

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DanBlog

Why is $GOOG so Obsessed with Afternoon Tea?

Google has long been trying to compete with Yelp on the local review front, however, getting community involvement has always seemed like a challenge for them. After Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman's…

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DanBlog

Quick And Dirty 15 Minute Content Audit

Since our clients run the gamut of non-local, multi-location, hyperlocal and agencies we are constantly working deliverables that: Provide valuable data Are relatively quick to put together One of…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Is Your Adwords Campaign Hijacking Your Branded SEO Traffic?

A year or so ago, the guy in charge of local search for a fairly big brand wanted to see if we were interested in a project to research if the vendor running their Adwords campaign was "stealing"…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

The Labor of SEO...

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a great day and tried to pass on the positive vibes with Lucky To Be In Local SEO! Today I am sure many of our U.S.-based readers have their heads way out the…

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DanBlog

Local Link Building Is Not Just For Local Businesses

When I saw that Rand, over at Moz, released a whiteboard friday about local link building for non-local sites I jumped for joy. A few people in the Local SEO space have been talking about this for…

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DanBlog

We Enforced NAP Consistency At Scale Then This Happened

NAP consistency is something that is often researched, however generally it's at a small scale and often the results are anecdotal. We wanted see what citation cleanup looked like at scale, and…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Apple Maps Now Publishing Listings Taken Directly From Businesses

It's Apple Maps news week here at LSG. Apple now appears to be publishing multi-location business listings taken directly from the businesses. Case in point, several electronic vehicle charging…

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