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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You Don't Need a Website to Rank Well in Google Places

May try to get some Sushi-for-SEO barter tonight.

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Connectivity.com Takes a Shot at Local CRM

Whenever I run into the guys from Yellowbot (aka Solfo) at a local search conference, the exchange is typically something like "hard to believe we are at another one of these things...". In other…

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The Pleasanton Drought

Source: Why California's Drought Isn't Going Anywhere I am posting this page as a resource for Pleasanton residents seeking both information on the how the drought is affecting the area and…

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You Just Can't Trust Google Maps, At This Point, To Produce Either Relevant Or Accurate Results When Much Of It Is Just Pure Spam.

Fantastic interview by Nyagaslov Zhekov with Dan Austin on Google's ineffectual response to map SPAM, including Bryan Seely's spoofing of Secret Service listings earlier this year. Money quote:…

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Yext Launches Store Locator Pages

Today Yext announced the launch of Yext Pages - a store location finder service that complements its Powerlistings local listings management service. Pretty cool stuff if you are local brand…

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Who Owns Customer Reviews of Your Business?

Mike Blumenthal just posed a question about this on G+ and I thought it was worthy of posting here. The TL;DR answer is: On G+, Yelp and most other review sites, the reviewer typically owns the…

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DO NOT BELIEVE HUBSPOT'S BULLSHIT WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR SEO BY SWITCHING TO WORDPRESS

<eom> p.s. if anyone from Hubspot would like to respond that they did not just tell one of my clients that, I'd be happy to discuss. p.p.s. honestly I was surprised that you guys used the word…

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SMBs Have Got Google Maps' Number...

Just found a classic thread on one of those "did you get a call from this phone number" sites. Some samples for your local SEO reading pleasure: Calls our business several times per day (not…

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2014 Local Directory SEO Content Strategy

This post was originally published on Search Engine Land, but I didn't like how they rewrote the title so here's the director's cut: To: Local Directories From: Google Re: Local Search Rankings…

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Redfin Needs To Get Real About Zillow & Real Estate SEO

Today online real estate brokerage Redfin sent real estate portal Zillow an open letter basically calling Zillow out for not playing nice SEO-wise and demanding that Zillow change its ways to…

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