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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At BIA/Kelsey ILM East Boston Next Week

I'll be running a "National Brands & Local Search" panel with Elnora Palms from Uhaul and Matthew Marko from Progressive. I'll also be lurking the halls doing my usual schmoozefest and…

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Fake Reviews Cost Real $: Legacy Learning Systems

UPDATE 11/14/12: According to commenter bob, this issue has been settled and was the result of some wayward affiliates of Legacy, not Legacy itself. Another company gets busted by the feds to the…

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Groupon Reviews As Google Places Citations = More IYP SEO Woe

Reviews of businesses on Groupon have been spotted on Google Place Pages since January: Last year I speculated that social local applications like Twitter & Foursquare could start to cause a lot…

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Farmer Update Rogue's Gallery

Since my YP.com Post-Farmer Traffic post, site owners who lost traffic have started to send me similar charts for their sites. I think it would be kind of cool to post charts for sites that were…

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YellowPages.com Google Traffic: Pre & Post Farmer Update Shows Growth

In response to my post on how some of top local sites did in the Farmer Update, Yellowpages.com's John Cole forwarded me the following traffic charts showing how their traffic has grown since the…

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How Did The Top Local Sites Do In Google's Farmer Update?

I thought it would be interesting to review the Quantcast data for the local-oriented sites in Quantcast's Top 100 to see if anything has changed (of course take this data with a grain of salt)…

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Foursquare's Rudest Cities = Great Linkbait

Just caught Greg's post on this infographic from Foursquare on the Rudest Cities in the world based on the # of expletives mentioned in tips First the Oscars and now this. Methinks Foursquare has…

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Are You Radiohead?

Radiohead just released their new album The King of Limbs via the Web. They offered free previews for a day or two and then put the album on sale digitally via their website before it hits stores…

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Google Farmer Update Updates - AKA "Panda"

For those of you trying to figure out what's going on with the Farmer Update, I thought it might be useful to aggregate what various search brainiacs are saying in one place. Herenow, the list:…

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Hey Google, What About Local Farmers (AKA Google Places)?

From Danny Sullivan's piece on Google's latest "Farmer Update": We’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites…

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