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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How To Track Mobile Visitors In Google Analytics

I got a few emails about the Google Analytics part of this post on Mobile SEO that I thought it might be useful to break it out as a separate post. So here you go: If you are a Google Analytics…

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Is Groupon Is Now A Citation for Google Places?

Glenn Gabe just pinged me that he is now seeing Groupon showing up in Google Place SERPs: According to Glen, this sucks for Groupon advertisers because: All of the Groupons I came across were…

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Bail Bonds SEO: How To Optimize For The Big House

A dispenser of San Bernadino Bail Bonds has been commenting on my Yellow Pages Usage Data post recently and has provided some interesting insight into how to market to people in jail: Regarding…

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Google Places Iphone App - Nice But No Foursquare, Yelp, etc...Yet

Just checked out the new Google Places Iphone App - "now with Hotpot!". It's a nice enough local reviews service The UI is simple and looks good. Besides being able to review a business, which is…

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Txtio is Kind of Cool

Just got a demo of Txtio from my bud Eugene Belenky. Eugene bills Txtio as "SMS marketing done right" and he may be onto something. Txtio is launching next week. The service is basically a SMS…

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Conversational Commerce Conference Coming Up in SF

Just got an invite to Opus Research's Conversational Commerce Conference aka C3 on Feb 2-3 in San Francisco. Opus is Dan Miller's and Greg Sterling's brainchild. I'll be blogging the event. Here's…

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Seeking In-House Local SEOs

I am putting together a conference session for BIA Kelsey's Interactive Local Media East show in Boston on March 21 and looking for a few in-house SEOs who work at big brands with a local focus…

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Why Are Yelp! & Yahoo! Still Spamming Google!?

Update: Matt Mcgee informs me that this is way old news. Still interesting though. First CityGrid and now Yahoo!? What's Yelp up to? A reader from a daily deals site just asked me why Yelp was…

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2010 Local SEO Predictions Revisited

Inspired by John Battele's scoring of his 2010 predictions I figured I'd see how I did with my 2010 Local SEO Predictions: The Open Source Yellow Pages Will Emerge Let's see - Citysearch turned…

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My Top Local SEO Posts of 2010

I thought it would be nice to end the year highlighting the blog's top 10 most popular posts for the year. Thanks to all my readers, commenters, linkers, lurkers, clients and of course Google for…

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