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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AMAP.to - URL Shortener For Google Maps

Fred Wilson has a great local discussion going on the AVC blog about how to shorten a Google Maps URL to make it easier to send. One of the commenters suggested checking out http://amap.to/ Here's…

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Needium Taps the "Need" Medium for Leads

While I was on vacation over the past week, the guys over at Praized Media had the audacity to both coin some new business lingo (social media is now the "need" medium) and launch a new reputation…

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MerchantCircle - Mayors of SMB SEO?

Merchant Circle just launched a City "Mayor" program designed to promote the most connected SMBs in a service area on the site. As Greg Sterling, he of the newly redesigned Screenwerk blog, put…

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BlueGlass Interactive Points The Way - Local Search Next?

Just saw this release that Chris Winfield, Dave Snyder, Brent Csutoras, Jordan Kasteler, Loren Baker, Tony Wang and Danielle Winfield along with their colleagues at their various companies have…

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How To Test SEO by SEO Scientist at #SMX

Branko Rihtman of SEOScientist presented an interesting idea about how to test SEO: He calls the method "Multi-directional" experiments. Basically here's how it works: Benchmark where you are…

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Site Architecture for Advanced SEO - #SMX

Ok, here is a poorly formatted liveblogging of this session: Maile Ohye of Google sez: Talking about ecommerce issues where we have a site with 158 products but because of filtering there are…

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Yusef Mehdi's #Bing Keynote at #SMX Notes

Some of the more interesting data that Mehdi mentioned: When looking for a lake tahoe house rental, in a four hour session, the searcher repeats some queries as much as 6 times Mobile search…

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Local Search Ranking Factors 2010

David Mihm has done it once again and published another edition of Local Search Ranking Factors. This year David surveyed 32 local search geeks to get their takes on the top factors for ranking…

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Google May Have Just Locked Me In...

I am in the initial roll-out group for being able to upload a background image to Google's home page. I love it. I love Bing's amazing photos on its homepage, but I love seeing my daughter…

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Google Exposes Your Competition

In general you should know who your competition is in the SERPs, but Google just made it easier (unless I have totally missed this feature for months which is possible). I just noticed a "Pages…

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