Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

Showing posts 771–780 of 1,311, newest first.

Andrew ShotlandBlog

Foursquare Makes A Move...

Foursquare's new page telling businesses all about how to use Foursquare to offer specials to customers is a step in the right direction. According to TechCrunch Foursquare only has about 2,000…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

How To Track Google Maps Traffic

and other great local seo tips from Dev Basu. See Page 16 for the GOOG Maps thing. via @davidmihm

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

Is Facebook the New Local Borg?

Methinks Greg Sterling has been spending too much time with SEO types as of late because his latest post on how Facebook's Like Buttons could put Facebook on a collision course with the big…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

If Warhol Sold Yellow Pages Ads

Someone has got to do this for yellow pages ads. Anyone want to go in on it with me? via Kottke.org

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

SMBs: Don't Be Shy About Social

Gib Olander offers some handy tips for SMBs to make sure their social media presence is in sync with everything else they are doing: Research shows that many consumers that view an online business…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

Will Yelp Like Facebook Like Buttons?

I haven't seen them live on Yelp yet because years ago Jeremy Stoppleman banned my email address, but that's another story. The big question - are Facebook's Like buttons complementary to reviews…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

Yodle, ReachLocal, Yext - Scams or Just Hard To Please Everybody?

SmallBusinessShift ponders the challenges of scaling an ambitious SMB SEM play: It’s not that Yext is a scam, although they do have some problems. The bigger issue is that there’s a communication…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

"Press "1" To Search For Customer Service"

Mike Blumenthal frets that with Google Local Business Center now becoming Google Places and adding a lot of nifty new features: As part of Google’s rebranding of the Local Business Center to…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

2 Million Fake Locksmiths on Google Maps...

Mr. Sterling states that 4 million businesses (2 million in the U.S.) have claimed their listing in Google Maps. And I quote: let’s imagine what it would look like for Google if all two million US…

Read the post
Andrew ShotlandBlog

Local Online Advertising for Dummies

Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle, recently published "Local Online Advertising for Dummies", a book to help SMBs "plan and launch an effective local online advertising campaign", "set up a Web site…

Read the post