I am going to be at Borrell’s Local Mobile Advertising Conference in Chicago next week. I’ll be moderating the “Mobile by the Numbers” panel. If you’re going to be there let me know and want to connect let me know.
Here’s the Local SEO Seasonal Calendar I mentioned on today’s post on SEL re Seasonal SEO (originally entitled “Back To School With Seasonal SEO”)
Earlier this week I spent a few days in Barbados as a guest of Global Directories where, along with Randy Orth & Vince Graziano of EM4B, we ran a local online marketing seminar for about 200 Barbadian businesses. As I went through my talk about how to get ranked for searches like “Barbados car rental” it occurred to me that emerging markets like Barbados are really interesting opportunities SEO-wise. It’s basically still 2005 down there: Many SMBs still don’t have…
Leena Rao tries to make sense of Ebay’s recent acquisitions: t’s no secret that eBay has been heavily investing in a local commerce strategy. The central core of this is trying to capitalize on the $917 million online-to-offline buying market, which Forrester estimates will eventually reach $1.3 trillion (although this number seems low) and account for nearly 50% of total retail sales by 2013. Virtually every acquisition in the past year (besides the company’s $2.4 billion purchase of GSI Commerce)…
Did I say I was speaking at the Yellow Pages Association Conference this week? I meant the Local Search Association.
In response to my post on how some of top local sites did in the Farmer Update, Yellowpages.com’s John Cole forwarded me the following traffic charts showing how their traffic has grown since the update. Week Over Week Comparison 2/20-2/26 v. 2/13-2/19 Week Over Week Comparison 2/23 -3/1 v. 2/16-2/22 Thanks for sharing John. If any other readers have data they would like to share feel free to send it along. test
Just got an invite to Opus Research’s Conversational Commerce Conference aka C3 on Feb 2-3 in San Francisco. Opus is Dan Miller’s and Greg Sterling’s brainchild. I’ll be blogging the event. Here’s the conference summary: Opus Research’s Conversational Commerce Conference (C3) brings together a diverse array of interested groups and stakeholders to discuss the new social media landscape and its joint impact on marketing and customer care. Beyond showing how these organizations must now collaborate, C3 will offer successful case…
Update: Matt Mcgee informs me that this is way old news. Still interesting though. First CityGrid and now Yahoo!? What’s Yelp up to? A reader from a daily deals site just asked me why Yelp was linking to Yahoo on the bottom right of this URL with the words “New York Burgers” in the anchor text. Upon further exploration, I found similar links on every business profile page I checked. And if you search Google, you can find millions of…
Inspired by John Battele’s scoring of his 2010 predictions I figured I’d see how I did with my 2010 Local SEO Predictions: The Open Source Yellow Pages Will Emerge Let’s see – Citysearch turned into CityGrid and is now supplying yellow pages data/ads to anyone who wants it. YPG launched its Yellow API strategy. A slew of Local Search APIs came out. I could go on, but let’s just call it a +1 (It’s All About) GOOGLE The launch of…
I thought it would be nice to end the year highlighting the blog’s top 10 most popular posts for the year. Thanks to all my readers, commenters, linkers, lurkers, clients and of course Google for making it a great year. Lifestyle Lift – Fake Reviews Will Cost You Real $ A 2009 post, but in 2010 botox-addicted readers just could not get enough of those turkey necks! Yext – Are Half Your Phone Leads Junk? This one was published in…