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LifeStyle Lift - Fake Reviews Will Cost You Real $

Just caught this article in the NYTimes about how Attorney General Andrew Cuomo had fined Lifestyle Lift, a cosmetic surgery company, $300,000 for ordering its employees to write fake reviews of…

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NYTimes Journalist Uses SEO To Show Her Editorial Bias

I am not the first blogger to claim that the NYT has some questionable editorial practices, but the use of links in a recent article by Claire Cain Miller on the how Lifestyle Lift got busted for…

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On vacation from blogging...

will be back soon

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Sidewalk.com - The Beginning of the Yellow Pages API Onslaught?

IAC/Citysearch just announced a contest for third party developers to come up with "the next hot local guide app for the Web and mobile devices" on their Sidewalk.com domain. It's called the…

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And One App To Rule Them All...Geodelic?

Geodelic, a local mobile search start-up, just went public with its funding and some screenshots. I had the opportunity to get a demo from Geodelic CEO Rahul Sonnad about a month ago and I really…

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Is Twitter A Better Source of Local News Than Google?

I just experienced a small earthquake in Pleasanton, CA. My first instinct was to search "Pleasanton earthquake" on Twitter. Here were the results I got: I then did the same search on Google and…

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Jason Calacanis Starts Local Search Conference: Local Search Summit

Actually this conference was Steve Espinosa's brainchild but he has brought in a bunch of luminaries including Greg Sterling, Atif Rafik of Yahoo Local & Steve Stukenborg of Google TV. There will…

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Bing Search Market Share - Day One

With the launch of Bing I was curious to see how much traffic it would drive to my clients’ sites. So I dug into Google Analytics and pulled out the following data for ten sites of varying sizes…

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Bing Results Are Amazingly Relevant...

At least for one search...

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Improve Your Local Search & Yellow Pages CPM

Any of my readers who have sites that generate a decent amount of local search traffic and are looking for ways to increase their CPMs drop me a line at localseo-at-localseoguide.com. I might have…

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