Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Is Google DeIndexing Place Pages?

Not sure if GOOG is manually deindexing Google Place Pages or if this is just the algorithm at work - often new pages rank well and then disappear for a few days - but some of the Place Pages I…

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Google Place Pages = Yellow Pages SEO SOS & SOL?

Last week saw the launch of Google Place Pages which Google described as "a webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it." Nothing like a modest goal to…

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David Mihm Goes For The Title

David Mihm puts out an excellent piece of linkbait on Google advertising against his name and goes for the "king of local seo" title. Although the great GOOG has opted not to run PPC ads against…

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David Krantz of AT&T Interactive - #DMS09

I'm back after a day of schmoozing to liveblog David Krantz's (CEO of AT&T Interactive) presentation. 1.8B searches on their network 20M unique visitors/mnth to Yellowpages.com 250% Mobile Search…

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Building a Multi-Product Sales Organization - DMS09

Panelists: Taylor Treese - MediaTraks, Dean Hodges - American Directory Systems, Eitan Ackerman - Amdocs The panel started out talking about the growing interest in selling digital products. There…

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Local Search Consumer Survey Data - #DMS09

Steve Marshall of BIA Kelsey Group is going over some consumer research re local search. Some of the key points: 16% of consumers use Social Networking Sites as a Source for Local Shopping Info…

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Michael Taylor of The Kelsey Group - The Selling to SMBs Landscape

Let's start out the conference with a little liveblogging: Michael Taylor of BIA Kelsey started out the Kelsey DMS '09 conference with a "preconference" presentation on the landscape of selling…

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Mobile Yellow Pages Panel - #DMS09

Mike Boland of BIA Kelsey is overseeing the mobile local search panel. Danny Francis of Cellcity walks through an implementation of GoOrlando which appears to be a simple IYP put on an iPhone. Per…

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Prescription for the Yellow Pages - #DMS09

Charles Laughlin and Neal Polachek of BIA Kelsey talking about their survey of Yellow Pages CEOs: Some quotes from CEOs on where we are today: "Conserving cash has replaced growth. Advertisers…

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See You in Orlando at Kelsey DMS 09

I am heading out to the BIA Kelsey Group's Directional Media Strategies 2009 conference in Orlando where I will be speaking at the SEO Success Strategies for IYPs panel on Wednesday. If you are…

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