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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NBC Everywhere - Brian Buchwald #ILM09

Local news has highest Interest, value & trust of all media yet local media ratings shrinking Overall media consumption is higher than ever but more outlets competing for attention Not enough…

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Panos Bethanis of Directory M #ILM09

DirectoryM is a huge local search network that most people in the local search biz don't know anything about. Here's waht Panos had to say: It looks like DirectoryM takes in a lot of third party…

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Social Local Search Panel #ILM09

Tim Kendall of Facebook: Manages self-service ad program Anamitra Banerji of Twitter: Focused on building out revenue products Greg Isaacs of AT&T Interactive: Manages revenue products Kara…

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Venture Capital Funding for Local Search #ILM09

VCs from Canaan Partners (Warren Lee), Trinity Ventures (Patricia Nakache) & Comcast Ventures (Michael Yang): Patricia Nakache: no one has cracked local impulse purchases - mentions Groupon Warren…

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See You At Local Search Summit at SES Chicago

I'll be there this Tuesday helping Steve McStud Espinosa make sense of this thing we call "local search". More info on Local Search Summit here. If you're going to be at SES Chicago you should…

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How To Find a Domain's # of Indexed Pages In Google Post-Caffeine

In the olden days, as in before this week, you used to be able to get an idea of how many pages you had in Google's index by searching "site:<yourdomain>". The resulting page would say something…

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Newspaper SEO - Beyond The Basics

Just put a new post up on Searchengineland on some advanced Newspaper SEO strategies as a follow up to Chris Silver Smith's piece from a few weeks ago.

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Black Monday 2009 - Are You Going To Get Your Share Of Black Monday Sales?

Each year I do a post on Black Monday Shopping and how to take advantage of high value seasonal searches to target shoppers in your market looking for Black Monday sales. While Black Monday…

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Yellow Pages Are What? Google's Got Some Suggestions

TechCrunch ran a Newspapers Are What? post last Friday that got me wondering what Google might suggest for a few yellow pages queries. Who says algorithms don't have a sense of humor? Yellow Pages…

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BIA Kelsey ILM 2009 in Los Angeles Coming Up

I'll be speaking at the BIA Kelsey ILM '09 Local Search "Preconference" - sort of akin to sitting at the kiddie table at Thanksgiving - along with Mr. David Mihm, Chris Spanos of AOL/Going.com and…

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