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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Yelp Iphone App Updated

according to TechCrunch. The update now allows for writing reviews from the Iphone so get ready for a lot of "I am writing this while drunk!" type stuff. I use the current Yelp App once in a while…

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Will You Be My Store's Facebook Friend? Pretty Please?

Just saw this on the front door of a kid's clothing store in Rye, NY. The number of online "friends" your business has may be a good indication of its health. The storefronts next to Sasha's were…

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Google Map Ads Showing Up On Merchant Circle

I was just looking at this page on Merchant Circle and noticed ads showing up on their Google Map! I am sensing a trend. In October TechCrunch noticed that Google had turned on text ads in Google…

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Google Map Ads Update

In the previous post, where I stumbled on to ads on a Google Map on Merchant Circle, "Mappin'" Mike Blumenthal took me to the local search woodshed with the following comment: In mid March, Google…

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Is The YouTube SEO Guy Smoking Crack?

Full disclosure: this post was written late at night under the influence of a free streaming music site with healthy doses of Them, Leonard Cohen, Kruder & Dorfmeister, & Portishead. No volcano…

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Google 10 Pack In Broad Web Results: Every Search Is Local Now?

Well not quite every search, but as Mike Blumenthal just told me, the 10 Pack is now appearing in a number of broad, non-geo phrase searches. Some observations of the 10 pack's behavior in Web…

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Canonical Tag: Google Answers Your Questions

I have been spending a bit of time working through implementing the rel=canonical tag on a number of sites and I found myself returning to the Google Webmaster Central post on the subject trying…

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Kelsey Conference Update Coming

Sorry for the radio silence. It has been a busy conference and I haven't had a chance to summarize my thoughts and conversations. Will do so later this week.

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Twitter As A Sales Tool For Conferences: #marketplaces2009

Ok I am hung up on Twitter today. Here's another thing I learned at the Kelsey Conference about Twitter - It's an amazing marketing tool at conferences. During the conference the moderators…

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What I Learned At The Kelsey Conference: Twitter=LiveBlogging Death

I am back from the Kelsey Conference looking at the sorry state of my notes and emptiness of my blog and blaming Twitter. My typical coverage of Kelsey shows includes a healthy dose of…

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