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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Google Images' New Design Gets It Right

After three years of hard work I am now #1 on the planet for "andrew"! Feel free to throw a few more links this way with "andrew" in the anchor text to reinforce my position of global andrew…

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The Local SEO Meetups List

David Vogelpohl has posted a great list of local seo meetups from all over the U.S on Marketing Pilgrim. If you are interested in getting together with other search engine geeks in your area,…

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Google Takes More Real Estate For Business Name Search

With all of the brouhaha going on about Google's test of a new local SERP for category searches that will make it much harder for local directories to get traffic, I became almost willfully blind…

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Will Small Business SEO Get Even More Cut-Throat?

Chris Silver Smith brings up a great point in today's Local's Only column about Google's new local SERP design they are testing: ...you might think that the newer, larger listing treatment might…

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Article Syndication Still Works for Local SEO

In case you were in doubt about this spammy technique for getting rankings check out the "News" results in this Google SERP for this highly competitive query:

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See You At HostingCon?

I'll be at HostingCon in Austin on Monday July 19th where I'll be speaking on the Local Search Ranking Tactics panel along with Curtis R. Curtis (no relation to Sirhan B. Sirhan) of UBL.org and…

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Dead Fingers Walking?

To: Local Directory Sites From: Google Subject: A Little Head's Up As you may have heard, we've been testing a new design for the SERPs we display when we detect a query with local intent. In the…

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SEO for Franchises

My latest Locals Only article for SearchEngineLand is Franchisee SEO - Can You Trust Corporate's Recommendations? I often get called by franchises and by franchisees to help with SEO and too often…

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Chitika Local Ad Exchange - Adsense for Local

I have often wondered aloud why there has been no competitor to Adsense in local search. Well, it seems like the industry has been wondering the same thing. Over the past few months we have seen…

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A Wonderful Life Brought To You By Facebook

Cari McGee pens a New Yorker-worthy piece on how Facebook can create incredible social-local experiences as seen through the lens of a woman who was downsizing and needed help moving: But another…

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