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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One From The Local SEO Guide Hall of Fame

Was having a conversation with my sister about funny business names (we had exhausted all other civil topics) and it reminded me of this inspirational tale. For those interested in more…

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Dynamic Audio San Jose Rocks!!!!!

These guys helped me out when I was in a jam and didn't charge me a dime. For the full story of how I found Dynamic Audio on 599 S. Market St. San Jose CA 95110 see my previous post on why Tate…

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My Experience With Tate Family Complete Auto Care San Jose As a Non-Customer

A lesson in reputation management: Last night I was driving away from the Local Search Summit Conference with Mr. David Mihm, local search whiz, when I noticed that I had a flat tire. As luck…

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IYP SEO Rankings Report 2009

National IYPs (Internet Yellow Pages) have long been amongst the biggest benefactors of organic search engine traffic. The typical IYP has north of 15MM business listings. Add category pages, city…

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Twitter Local Apps Review

There has been a lot of digital ink spilled over Twitter's local search implications. Over the past few months several Twitter services have launched with a local angle. I thought it would be…

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How Much Is Your PageRank Worth?

Just got a call from a client who is negotiating with a partner to put the partner's content on their site. The partner is requiring that each page with partner content link back to the partner…

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Yelp Just Says No To NoFollow Tags

This just in; Yelp has removed the internal nofollow tags from their site. If you had read my posts, Yelp SEO Analysis Part I and Yelp SEO Analysis Part II, you might recall that internal…

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Yellow Pages v. Social Media Marketing: A Rebuttal To The Lazy, Lying Mainstream Media

From the Couldn't Resist Department: Tara Nelson of the Examiner.com, "the insider source for everything local", wrote an article today called "Yellow Pages v. Social Media Marketing" on the…

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Robots.txt File Disallowing Entire Site = SEO Death

Part 4 in the SEO Death series. If you look at your robots.txt file, you usually don't want to see this: User agent: * Disallow: / Because if you see this, then you usually see this: Do not…

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Still on Vacation From Blogging

Back within two weeks with hopefully something interesting to say.

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