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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Chuck Norris Birthday Cake

Another triumphant #1 image ranking for the blog. It's the little things that count right? Tweet

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Facebook Places - The API To Rule All API's?

So it's finally here. Predictions: Facebook Places will (and probably already has) become the Twitter of location check-ins. Anyone creating an application that relies on check-ins will need to…

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SEO Arbitrage The Deficit!

I am as tired as anyone else about the political bullshit that is going on in this country and there's only so much that Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and So You Think You Can Lose Weight While You…

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Google Voice Action for Mobile Local Search - Yet Another IYP Killer?

Google announced a number of upgrades to its voice search application today. One of them looks like it could be particularly troublesome to local search directory players. From TechCrunch: Another…

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Looking for a Cool Microsoft Marketing Job in Seattle?

Since this blog's readers are mainly from the search marketing & local search industries, I've often thought I should add a job board for local search jobs. I regularly get requests from readers…

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Sucky Businesses Should Not Do Business With Search Marketers

Readers of this collection of hypertext may recall my tale of woe in dealing with a San Jose Auto Repair shop who done me wrong last year. The subtitle of that little missive was "A lesson in…

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Are Gag Orders on Patient Reviews Medical Justice?

Just found an article on Angieslist about an outfit called Medical Justice that helped a doctor contractually obligate patients from talking about them online with a gag order. It certainly sucks…

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Are New SMBs Creating Facebook Pages Before Google Place Pages?

Executive Summary: Who knows? But here's a data point of one: The Main Street Meat N Fish Market recently opened in Pleasanton. My wife asked me to find their hours so I went to Google and queried…

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Mobile Local Search on the Rise - YPA

Today the Yellow Pages Association released a new study based on Comscore data that shows an increase in local mobile usage, particularly as it affects the use of local directories. Here are some…

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Superpages.com DoFollow Links To Advertisers Now Live

Keith Brown, Search Analyst for Supermedia (aka Superpages' parent co) just stopped by and left the following comment on my post about Superpages SEO and its use of nofollow tags on links to…

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