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RedBeacon - TechCrunch 50 Goes Loco...I Mean Local

RedBeacon, a new lead generating service for local service providers, is the winning start-up at this year's TechCrunch50 conference. From the pitch video I watched it seems like RedBeacon is…

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Are You A Member of the Twitter Chamber of Commerce?

That's the title of my debut post on SearchEngineLand's "Local's Only" section from yesterday. For some reason SEL thought it would be a good idea to push my stuff out on a day when almost nobody…

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Google Cash - Local Media's Savior?

With so much being written these days about how hard it is for local media companies such as newspapers to survive, I thought it would be helpful to share with all of my readers working in these…

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Sit Up Straight! Get a Gaiam Chair Ball

Audrey is crazy about her chair ball Ok if TechCrunch can blog about juice cleanses I can blog about a chair ball. I guess Gaiam figured that we SEOs just sat around all day hunched over a…

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Hey It's August

working on some stuff that I can hopefully get up soon but the combination of sun and pina coladas is making for slow going. Stay tuned...

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PR Friday

No I'm not talking about PageRank. As we provide more and more cutting edge blogginess we get more and more PR folks pinging us re their amazing clients. My wife is in PR so I know what slog the…

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Twitter Location API: The Trojan Horse of Local Search?

Twitter just announced it's launching an API that will allow developers to add latitude & longitude to any tweet. There's all sorts of funky services this could lead to such as a site that tracks…

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DataSF .org - A Local Search SEO Spammer's Dream Come True

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome announced today on TechCrunch that the City has released more than 100 structured data sets for developers to use via DataSF.org. According to the article: The…

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Where Is The Facebook Platform for Small Businesses?

Last week I was on a panel at the Local Search Summit with Sarah Smith of Facebook. I asked her about their platform strategy for small business and she responded that besides advertising they…

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PlacePop: YATLA (Yet Another Twitter Local App)

Just caught up with Kent Lindstrom, founder of PlacePop and former CEO of Friendster, a new "lightweight" local search app that has a kind of Twittery feel to it. The service encourages users to…

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