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The Google Carousel & Local Directories
“Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound…” – Don Draper When Google’s new Local Carousel came to a town near you a couple of weeks ago, I immediately envisioned the Don Drapers of local search in conference rooms around the country dramatically presenting their initial impressions. Of course at the end, instead of Duck […]
Google News Stopped Indexing Your Sitemap?
UPDATE: This just in from Chris Andrews, one of the top contributors to the Google News Help Forum “Google News is working on a system-wide fix for the ‘not in the Google News database‘ error-message error. Nothing is being done on an individual site basis, so publishers do not need to post their sites in […]
“The Usability Impetuous Behind Google+ Local…”
Aaron Bradley dropping some Local knowledge, along with a lot of other knowledge, in his fantastic post about the Semantic Web: “…search is no longer about words, but about the things to which the words on a web page describe and make reference…” “Why is this important? It’s important because when Google receives a user […]
The Small Business SEO Agency Reseller Model
I tend to get a lot of calls from start-ups trying to go the small business SEO agency reseller route to get their services in the hands of SMBs. Often they are looking for feedback on their service, introductions to potential resellers, or a SEO strategy to get in front of potential customers. I have […]
Obama Admits “(Not Provided)” Drove Decision To Use PRISM Program
WASHINGTON – Following revelations that the U.S. government’s PRISM program has been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas from the nation’s largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple, in search of national security threats, President Obama admitted that Google’s policy of hiding keywords in Google Analytics was the deciding factor in moving […]
Penguin 2.0 Link Removal Request Etiquette
Since Penguin 2.0 hit a couple of weeks ago, a number of clients have received a large volume of requests to remove links from their sites that goes something like this: “I recently received notice from Google that my website has been assessed a penalty after they “detected unnatural links” pointing to my website http://www.spamdawber.com/. Can […]
Why You Should Be Open With Your Business’ Meta Data
Yesterday I talked about my initial thoughts on Google’s new Local Business Data Highlighter. Tyler Bell of Factual was quick to point out an important point: [View the story “Cheeky Google” on Storify]If you want to have the best chance of ranking for local queries in Google, you should definitely use the tools they give […]
How To Use Google’s Local Business Data Highlighter…So Far
Google’s new Data Highlighter for Local Businesses is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to goose their local rankings. I have found it to be a bit buggy and it’s a new tool, so proceed with caution. Here are some basics on how to use it along with some tricks I have figured out […]
Google Alerts Tip – Works Better If You Have a Time Machine
And in other breaking CitySearch news, Darren Waddell of RadiusIntel just sent me this awesome Google Alert he received this morning: It links to this article from 2007. For all of you marketers recommending that your clients use Google Alerts to monitor what people are saying, be sure to include that it works better if […]