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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SuperPages Listens & Gives Advertisers Some SEO Love

This cheeky post - SuperPages New Profile Pages Not Doing Advertisers Any SEO Favors - caught the attention of James Johnson, Group Manager of Skunk Works (great title btw) over at Supermedia.…

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It's MayDay for Yellow Pages Sites

image liberally appropriated from Roger Hollander Thanks to Vanessa Fox as always for eliciting grains of truth from Google. At last week's Google I/O conference Matt Cutts confirmed that there…

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Yext Rep - Real Time SMB Reputation Management

UPDATE 11.25.12: Since I wrote this two years ago, a lot has changed. Yext has pivoted its business away from pay-per-call to business listings management to help you manage your yellow pages…

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SuperPages New Profile Pages Not Doing Advertisers Any SEO Favors

Mr. Greg Sterling has informed us that SuperPages has updated the design of their advertiser profile pages with "enhanced content and a cleaner look". Unfortunately for their advertisers' SEO…

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The Best Local Search Directories For Vertical SEO

Last year I published the first IYP SEO Rankings Report which looked at which yellow pages/general local search sites ranked the best in Google for popular queries in the top U.S. markets. That…

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Google Places Questions Answered

Mike Blumenthal has a great recap of a recent webinar held by the Google Places team where they answered a lot of frequently asked questions. Here are a couple of my faves: Q: Can we use call…

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What's Your Exit Strategy?

One of the things I love about local and the Web in general are the crazy niches you can go after like Find a Mohel. I was checking out the profile of one of my Twitter followers @jwegener and…

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Google Maps Go 3D

Sometimes I am embarrassed to be in the local search biz... via BIrthday Ideas

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Learn Local Search Via Twitter

I had a lot of fun with using embedded Tweets to extract some useful tips from last weeks LocalU conference in Minneapolis. Here's a sample: Mike Blumenthal @AaronWeich leading search ranking is…

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How To Add A User To Google Webmaster Tools

Since Google launched the ability to add a user to Google Webmaster Tools just by adding an email address to the account, I have spent a fair amount of time explaining how to do this simple…

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