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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The Open Yellow Pages Database in the Sky

Great discussion on TechCrunch about the need for an open database of local business listings. My two favorite comments thus far - the first from a former Facebook engineer and the second from…

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Twitter, Geo-Tweets & The Local Search Tsunami?

My post on the post-Chirp potential for Twitter and local search is now up on SearchEngineland. Bottom line, Places of Interest + Promoted Tweets + Tweet Annotations = big implications for local…

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What's Your Average Click Through Rate From Google?

Google Webmaster Tools recently released a very cool feature in the Top Search Queries report: Clickthrough Rate Now you can see not only which keywords generate the most impressions on Google for…

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Yext Reviews

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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Local Search Wrap Up 4/2/10

When I first started blogging someone told me to always do a wrap-up post on Friday so I wouldn't have to come up with new content for that day. Since my blog has been somewhat sparsely populated…

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ShieldPower = SEO Power: Supermedia's Local Linkbuilding Game

Supermedia just announced that they will be licensing their Superguarantee shield logo to advertisers. From the press release: SuperMedia LLC recently launched ShieldPower, a new licensing program…

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Jon Brod of AOL Ventures #Marketplaces2010

Jon is responsible for Local & Mapping at AOL (aol.?) aol. is looking as local as their big opportunity, particularly because it involves content, which is where aol. is putting a lot of…

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Kelsey Marketplaces 2010 Opening Session Notes

Just booted up the laptop and jumping in a little late. In short, according to Neil Polacheck, a lot of investment in local, and a rapid movement from horizontal to vertical media is the lens…

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Sam Sebastian of Google Local #Marketplaces2010

Peter Krasilovsky gets up on the stage for an interview with Sam Sebastian, head of Google Local & B2B. Peter is the Colombo of local search interviewers, and that's a compliment. Got distracted…

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See You At Kelsey Marketplaces 2010 in San Diego

I'll only be there on Monday the 22nd. If you want to connect please ping me at @localseoguide on Twitter or via some other medium. On Tuesday the 23rd I'll be at the Local Search Summit at SES in…

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