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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Give A Little SEO for Christmas 2008

My readers are too much! Too much... Last year I started the Give A Little SEO for Christmas campaign to thank everyone who commented on the blog in 2007, and it's that time of the year again. The…

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Save Your URLs

Just got off the phone with a client who has some serious SEO issues. One of the big ones is that there are ten-year-old URLs still in Google's index that nobody knew about. These URLs were put in…

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Are You Using Meetup To Market Your Small Business?

Back in January I posted about how small businesses could use Meetup to market themselves. Today I got a reminder in my email via my East Bay SEO Meetup about how creative marketers are using…

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Small Biz SEM Ain't Happening According to Microsoft

According to my buds at Silicon Alley Insider MS just released some survey that shows that most small businesses with websites don't buy search ads. Some highlights from their analysis: 59% of…

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BOTW Local: Greg Hartnett Interview

When Best of the Web Local launched in August, I thought it was yet another wakeup call to Yellow Pages companies (both print and IYPs) that their business was under attack. There are already…

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You Don't Have To Floss All of Your Teeth...(PSA)

...only the ones that you want to keep. This public service announcement is brought to you by Local SEO Guide (who obviously has nothing interesting to write about today)

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SMB PPC Ad Spend Not Looking Good: Palore

Noa Gertin at Palore just pinged me with some real happy talk kind of news. According to their data, which they get from crawling local search sites, the search engine advertising spend for SMBs…

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Google Local Business Referrals Goes The Way of Lively

Matt McGee just posted that Google Local Business Referrals is shutting down. GLBR paid people to sign up small businesses to Adwords and Google Local Business Center. According to Matt: In a…

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New York Pizza - Pleasanton, CA, I mean Netherlands? Pleasanton SEO

Google Maps is on the verge of creating an international incident. I did the following search on Google: "pizza 94566" I got the 10 pack. Check out the URL for "New York Pizza" If I had wanted a…

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Local.com Toys For Tots Promotion

Tis the season to do nice things and Local.com has come up with a nice promotion to get advertisers to sign up. According to the press release: Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM)...today…

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