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 more than TARP. For those of you with ADD, here’s a summary of the top 20 factors on a […]
Update: This post may be out of date already.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) needs less sleep than I do. It’s a very fine overview of why using the HCard format on your website is […]
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 below:
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 to figure it all out. The problem is that there are too many questions in the comments section and it takes […]
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 liveblogging to capture all of the interesting points made by presenters and then maybe a think-piece or two on the state […]
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 the US On avg 130MM Americans/day visit a restaurant Americans will spend approximately $378B at local restaurants in 2009 CampusFood’s FB app = “Food Frenzy” = #187th […]
as this linkbaiter posits (of course I am a sucker for ego-driven linkbait). Just been a bit preoccuppied with keeping everyone else happy outside of my blog readers. I’ll be back shortly with more thrilling tales from the wild and wacky world of local search engine optimization. For those looking to interact with me on […]
Part 3 in the SEO Death series There are all sorts of things that can kill your search engine traffic, but perhaps none is more humiliating than leaving your development server accessible to the search engine robots. If your test environment gets crawled and the pages get indexed you can suddenly have a duplicate of […]
on Twitter of course. It will be interesting to see how they use the social thing.
I forgot to mention a few weeks ago that Enquisite, the search analytics company, had announced a new stat called Potential Analysis which was based on my post about Keyword Potential™. Thanks to Richard Zwicky and the Enquisite team for bringing forth the SEO analytics gospel to the masses.