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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Google's New Image Search Is Freaking Me Out

I popped my standard headshot in and here's what I got: A couple of thoughts: If you saw a pic of me when i was about 4 years old, you would see a lot of similarities between me and that kid…

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Are Google Maps Getting Tighter Radii?

I just wanted to use "radii" in a headline... Mike Blumenthal tweeted yesterdat that he thought the radii of the Google map for various local queries had gotten smaller. To me it seemed like the…

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Local Search Ranking Factors 2011 - Top 10

David Mihm's annual Local Search Ranking Factors survey of local SEO geeks is out. As always, I like to provide a summary of the top ten recommendations: Top 10 Ranking Factors for Google…

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Google Offers Fact Sheet Favorites

Google Offers has added a lot of detail about how the program works and tips for participating businesses. Mike B. has excerpted some of the more pertinent info so I thought I'd provide my spin on…

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Rich Snippets Get Standardized At Schema.org

Google, Bing & Yahoo have just announced support of a standardized set of microformats at Schema.org. Here's the full list of supported schema types. This means that you format your templates once…

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CodeGuard is Cool

I was talking to my bud Jonah Stein about his new start-up CodeGuard, a website backup service, and I thought given the events of the past few days it was worth a plug, particularly for those…

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SEO in Emerging Markets is Hot!

Earlier this week I spent a few days in Barbados as a guest of Global Directories where, along with Randy Orth & Vince Graziano of EM4B, we ran a local online marketing seminar for about 200…

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Google Places Rich Snippets Finally Working?

I have been hearing reports from a variety of sources that over the past few days more rich snippets have started to show up in Google Places. Using rich snippets on your site to get your content…

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Google Places MisPlaces New Review Feeds

Mike Blumenthal has some concerns re Google Places' new user review feeds: When was the last time you heard a reviewer ask for an RSS feed of their reviews? Well maybe some reviewer some place…

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Spotted in the Wild: Google Up/Down SERP Arrows

Anyone else seeing these? Kind of useless but nice.

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