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 Twitter Strategy: Get People To Stop Using It

There are some great posts out there about how businesses can use Twitter, but I just stumbled across this LATimes article about a company that's trying to get business by encouraging customers to…

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Local Search Ranking Factors 2009

David Mihm's 2nd annual survey of my esteemed colleagues in the local seo world is now up. It's a fantastic report and probably will do as much for the economy as the Stimulus and perhaps even…

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How To Do Local SEO For Your Website in Five Minutes (or So)

This post appeared yesterday on Merchant Circle as part of their "Guest Blogger" series but Tad Chef insisted I put it up on my site so I could get a link from him and who am I to argue with that?…

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HCard, Microformats & Local SEO

Update: This post may be out of date already. Google just announced support for Microformats. Doh! You know I really should have written this post on HCards & SEO, but Michael Wolf Gray (oops)…

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Find a Great Andrew Near You

It looks like every search is indeed local now. I just typed "andrew" into Google and I got a 10-pack with local business results with businesses that have "andrew" in their name. Screenshot…

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Welcome To Some New & Newly Redesigned Local Search Players

Over the past couple of weeks there have been a number of new local search sites come out of the woodwork and I thought it was time to say hi and give them a little linkjuice. Centerd.com - These…

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New York City Locksmiths - A Map Spammer's Guide

Update: MyMapInfo, the SEO who was working on Artie's site, commented on Will's post that I had mistaken him for a spammer when he has been trying to get his client to rank well after the client…

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Where The Hell Is Yellow Pages Connect?

So Facebook and Twitter are getting all of the attention for providing APIs that let developers recreate their services on their own sites. This strategy has in part led to Twitter's growth…

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Merchant Circle Manages Its Reputation

There's a great discussion going on over on Mike Blumenthal's What Is Merchant Circle Up To Now? post. Mike had heard about Merchant Circle owning a lot of small business domains, did some…

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Opening Times - Is Your Site Open For SEO Business?

The Hitwise Intelligence blog is a great example of how a corporation can use proprietary info to attract customers. I just saw this post by Robin Goad on the growing popularity of "opening times"…

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