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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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Got A Local Directory And Want To Increase Your RPM$?

Occasionally a company shows me an ad product that's kind of cool and when that happens I like to hook my readers up. I just got demo'd a very cool map ad unit designed to replace Google Maps on…

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Google Instant Previews Choke On Meta Description Tags?

Well "choke" may be a mite too strong a word. After yesterday's post on Google Instant Previews & SEO, Organic Optimizer & Veggie Farmer Everett Sizemore pointed out that if GOOG uses your meta…

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Google Instant Previews = Instant SEO?

I was checking out Google Instant Previews - Google is now testing displaying images of web pages listed in SERPs to give users a preview so they don't have to waste a click "pogosticking", as…

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Google Local Heatmaps Show Cold Maps

Ionadas Local and Sentient Services just published the results of an eye-tracking study on the (old as of 10/27/10) Google Local SERPs that is certainly worth a look. Here's a summary of the…

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Local SEO Guide Named #8 Most Popular SEO Blog by Wikio

Like Ann Smarty I was contacted by Wikio to see if I was interested in publishing their top 10 SEO Blogs list. Before I hit the delete button I noticed I was ranked #8 so in the interest of…

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Rich Snippets/Poor Execution For Google Places Testimonials

While putting together the Top 10 Reviews Sites In Google Place Search report, we noticed what we thought were testimonials from a business' website showing up in the reviews section of the…

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Top 10 Reviews Sites In Google Place Search

Given the increased prominence of reviews sites in new Google Place Search SERPs, I thought it might be interesting to see which ones were showing up most often. The following is sort of 2010…

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Stop Reading This And Go Vote!

I don't care who you vote for, just go do it (U.S. readers of course). And for my California constituency vote Yes on 19!

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Google Place Search Has SEOs Divided

One component of the new Google Place Search is the merging of local and organic results in a more blended layout. While local marketers around the world are scrambling to figure out any new…

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Maybe Local Directories Aren't Dead After All?

It's still too early to tell, but I track the traffic on a number of local directory sites around the world and thus far I have not seen a significant change in Google referrals. Could it be that…

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