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 Crawl Rate Goes Through The Roof

Google has been playing some crazy games over the past couple of weeks and this morning Webmaster Tools delivered another surprise. Crawl rates have gone through the roof. Here are some sample…

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InsiderPages Launches DoctorFinder

Eric Peacock, GM of my old co. InsiderPages, pinged me last night to let me know that they had launched DoctorFinder, a partnership with Healthgrades to bring together in one place – user reviews,…

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Local Is Blowing My Mind

Been thinking a bit this morning about the challenges of local. The SEO challenge will always be there, but even greater than that is the fragmentation challenge. How do you make sense of the…

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Local Online Advertising Spending 2010: Borrell is Smoking Crack

Borrell is predicting that local online advertising spend will only grow by 6% in 2010. Last year according to Borrell local Web spending grew by 46% over 2008: The growth was due mainly to…

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Yelp's Reputation Management Problem

As some of you may already know this morning I was under the influence of Nitrous Oxide in a dentist chair. Before I headed off to oblivion I got into a discussion about local Web marketing with…

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Merchant Circle Checks In With A Location-Based API

Merchant Circle just launched an API to allow development of applications on top of their content. The site is loaded with unique business descriptions, reviews, coupons, SMB blog posts and other…

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SMB Linkbuilding on the Cheap

In case you didn't know it already, that website you invested all of your hopes and dreams in - actually that website you invested way too small a percentage of your hopes and dreams in to achieve…

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Those Who Can Market Teach

Dick Larkin (aka The YP Commando) is kind of like the Paul Harvey of local search. I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter which comes out sporadically, but is usually worth the wait. In…

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Google PlaceLinks - A SEOpportunity? Probably Not

Dave Rodecker of Local Splash uncovers the latest tweak to Google Place Pages, the ability for business owners to add custom links such as Twitter and Facebook Profiles: Dave looks into the Matrix…

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Newspapers Screw Up Online Again

Matt McGee at Hyperlocal Blogger unearths this gem: Community newspapers throughout the country consider personalized “hometown” news stories about local residents as “must-publish” content, but…

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