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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AllMenus.com - Tony Wills of DotMenu - Kelsey

Time for some liveblogging. Screw Twitter: Dotmenu is the parent co of allmenus.com and campusfood.com Company did 3,000,000 online restaurant orders in January 2008. Over 450K restaurants across…

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MySpace Yellow Pages: 40% of U.S. Moms Can't Be Wrong?

Just sat through the Jeff Berman of MySpace's keynote at the Kelsey Group's Marketplaces 2009 conference. There was a lot of talk about personalization and how huge the audience is, but I only…

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ADSPACE Conference: Adsense, Make Money, Etc.

I don't spend a lot of time here on how you make money on your site other than "get qualified traffic via search or any other means", but a buddy of mine in the SEO world is starting a new Adsense…

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Is That Yellow Pages Directory In Your Drawer an Authentic Leader or an Arrogant Dullard?

Just got a survey call that was likely paid for by AT&T. They were mostly asking questions about print directory usage with a couple of bones paid to online. It seemed like the point of this…

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Kelsey Marketplaces 2009: Los Angeles

Just wanted to let my loyal readers know I will be hanging out at the Kelsey Group's Marketplaces 2009 conference next week in Los Angeles at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. I am guessing the…

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Crunchbase SPAM: Protect Your Online Identity

It seems that one of our good friends from the sub continent has decided to take over my Crunchbase profile. In a world where every site is basically a wiki, this kind of identity hijacking is…

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Local Search: Safe Haven Against Google's New Brand Algorithm?

Aaron Wall likely increased the amount communication between SEOs and their clients the other day with his post speculating about Google's new algorithm that favors brands in the SERPS. As usual…

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How to Get Your Site Indexed In Google & Other Search Engines, Quickly (I Hope)

I have been helping a number of sites with brand new domains lately. Before I take the job I usually caveat it with the old "if you don't get links it ain't going to work" mantra, but often the…

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Google Maps Launches the K-Pack

thanks to Matt McGee for tipping me off to this one. Here's a particularly useful example:

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Kick The Google Webmaster Tools Habit

Google Webmaster Tools is a pretty cool tool for analyzing architectural issues with websites. It can point you towards duplicate content issues, redirection issues, site performance issues, etc.…

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