Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

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Facebook Leaves Home Without The SEO

Ok I know Facebook is a big-ass brand that doesn't need your stinking organic traffic, but if you're going to have a big press conference about your amazing new mobile strategy, don't you think…

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Are Print Yellow Pages No Longer "Local"?

Mike Blumenthal has some nice LocalSEOGuide bait today on print yellow pages usage trends by advertisers entitled "Annual Print YP Death Watch": "In many categories the ads are for national…

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10 Billion Ways To Get A Link

You may have seen the news earlier this week that Greg Sterling and I have determined that bad business listing data may be costing US businesses $10 billion. To provide more context for that…

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How Much Does Screwed-Up Business Listings Data Cost Us? $10B

Greg Sterling & I were asked by Yext to figure out how the cost of erroneous business listings data. The answer: $10 Billion, maybe more. Greg has the full story. Yext internal data indicate that…

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The Problem With A-List SEO Agencies

Image lifted from DeviantArt.com Too much business Leads to having to hire more people in a competitive industry where there are not enough skilled providers and a lot of churn from people jumping…

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Yelp's Biggest Threat

Taylor Hatmaker on Yelp's Q4 loss of $5.3 million: Yelp should own local. But it doesn't. The company, founded in the mobile dark age of 2004, is being assaulted on some major fronts. There's…

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Local Search Steel-Cage Match: Google+ Local v. Apple Maps v. Facebook Nearby v. Everyone Else

Just caught Greg's piece on Facebook's new mobile local search feature: Facebook Gets Into Local Search with Facebook Nearby for iOS & Android. While I don't expect Facebook Nearby to stay ad-free…

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When It Comes To SEO, Don't Always Believe The Engineers...

A friend who is a former spook told me how he once smuggled an Arab man out of the Middle East. "I dressed him in short pants." "Why?" I asked. "Because Arab men never wear shorts. People tend to…

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The Ultimate List of Pharmaceutical SPAM Keywords

The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Low-T & Low-O www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive A new client has been seriously dinged…

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Attention Local SEO Agencies...

Sorry for the dramatic headline - I am doing some research on how SEO/SEM agencies service SMBs and I am looking to do brief interviews with agencies that handle between 20-100ish SMB clients (or…

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