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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The Best Models are Closed-Loop

Listening to Neil Salvage, EVP of CityGrid Media, speaking at the Local Search Association Conference on selling marketing services to SMBs. The advantages of the closed loop model (OpenTable,…

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Yellow Pages SEO After the Panda Update

Contrary to popular belief, Pandas don't just eat bamboo, they also eat local search sites. My post on Yellow Pages SEO in the Post-Panda World is now live on SEL.

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It's Wafer Thin.

Has to be one of the funniest scenes ever made.

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Google Toe Tags Tags

Just saw the news over at Greg's blog and couldn't resist...

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See You At The YPA Conference in Vegas Next Week

I'll be running a session at the Yellow Pages Association 2011 conference on Tuesday morning on SEO for Local Directories in the Post-Panda World. I'll be there both Monday and Tuesday so ping me…

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Google HotPot Was Always Sort of a Crock

Lior Ron announced today that Google is dumping the HotPot brand for its local reviews system and rolling it into Google Places. It's a good move and I am guessing an indicator of more product…

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Is Gmail Your Biggest Competitor?

I logged into Gmail today and saw the following message: Ironically a second later I got the following email from a client: So you probably already know this, but thought I would share. I am…

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James Moran of Yipit: Group Buying By The Numbers - #ILMEast

Thought I'd do some liveblogging of Jim's talk at ILM East. First a couple of Deal-a-Day forecast nuggets from Bobbi Loy-Luster Volume will increase but growth rates will taper off. $873MM in 2010…

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The Butchers on Yonge Street: Group-Buying Blowback

During Yipit's presentation on Group Buying Data at ILMEast this morning James Moran mentioned that a deal from DealFind for The Butchers on Yonge Street in Toronto could have been one of the most…

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Yext Tags Cracks Self-Serve SMBs? #ILMEast

UPDATE 11.25.12: Since I wrote this over a year ago, a lot has changed. Yext has pivoted its business away from pay-per-call to business listings management to help you manage your yellow pages…

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