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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Yahoo Mail Goes All Social On Me

I just sent an email out to a bunch of local seo types and saw this on the "message sent" confirmation screen: For now the data looks relevant only to Yahoo social activities, but you could…

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Should Rupert Murdoch Give Google The NoIndex Finger?

The web is all abuzz today with the news that Rupert Murdoch is threatening to block Google from indexing NewsCorp's content. Jason Calacanis & the Blogging Maverick have both jumped into the fray…

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Business.com Social Media Survey - Are You Running 7 Social Media Campaigns?

Business.com just released the results of a study on social media usage by business professionals. The big data points that stuck out for me: The average company in this study was planning,…

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Google Local Social Search is Coming

And so I thought I put up some deep thoughts on the subject at SearchEngineLand...Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?

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Yahoo Flushes GeoCities, PageRank & Million$ Down The Drain

UPDATE 6/16/10: OK, maybe I was a bit off on this one :P see http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/aol-to-sell-bebo-for-around-10-million/ Yahoo finally closed Geocities.com in a way that proves Carol…

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Google Social Search Not Very Local Yet

I just checked out Google's new Social Search experiment. The idea is that Google can index information from your social network and display relevant content in your search results. For more…

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Very Brief Local SEO Thoughts

My blog muse must have caught the h1m1 virus recently. So in order to appease the angry hordes of readers who await words of wisdom from on high here are a couple of very low-effort (to do and to…

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Can The Yellow Pages Industry Create An Adsense Competitor?

Some ponderings by yours truly over on SearchEngineLand.

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IYP SEO Rankings 2009 Part II: Which Yellow Pages Sites Should You Use For Which Categories?

In August, I published my initial findings on which Internet Yellow Pages sites (IYP’s) did the best in ranking for organic Web results for searches in the top 20 U.S. cities for the top 20 yellow…

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Heading to SMX East in NYC

Will be speaking on a local seo panel with all of the usual suspects on Mon afternoon. If you are at the show and want to connect ping me.

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