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Just got here.  Sorry readers and Rob Barret whose keynote I just walked in on.  Will start spewing forth local search gems shortly.

I just got some referrals from Google for the following search “dentists in pleasanton who use nitrous oxide”. If you have a dental website I strongly advise you adding the term “nitrous oxide” to your pages, and any other narcotic you use. You may be able to snare some potential customers who enjoy a good […]

I was sitting on the above bench in front of the Porto Rico Importing Co. on Thompson St. in NYC this afternoon (great coffee btw) on a conference call with a new client. When I hung up I realized someone had been sitting next to me for quite some time eating her lunch and listening […]

Read it again. And if you are in the Jewish investment mood I recommend finding out about a donor advised fund from JCF.

Nothing local or SEO about this.  I just heard that Danny Federici, keyboard player for the E Street Band, died yesterday.  The iPod will be tuned to Springsteen for the rest of the day in memory, particulary “The River”.

If you have ever wondered why you should hire a SEO expert instead of doing it yourself, check out Jill Whalen’s two informative how-to pieces on the basics of keyword research. If you read the articles you will get an idea of how much time and grunt-work is involved. None of it is rocket science, […]

I know what you’re thinking – how is he going to tie these unrelated concepts together? Well, just as it took the IRS to uncover a connection between Elliot Spitzer and the Emperors Club VIP escort service, it also takes a true SEO obsessive to tie these two headline grabbers to local search engine optimization […]

I will be at SMX West in Santa Clara this Wednesday in the afternoon and most of the day Thursday.  If any of my readers are going to be there and are interested in hooking up let me know.

Ok this is not much of a SEO post but all politics is local right? I was catching up on the whole sort of alleged John McCain lobbyist affair with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist for Alcade & Fay, and found a story about how Iseman’s bio was pulled from the firm’s website. If you are […]

As many of my readers now know The SEMMY Awards nominations have been announced and I am both a judge in the Small Business Marketing category and a nominee for the following posts: Yelp SEO Analysis: Part One Geotargeting Location By IP Address = SEO Death As I was going through all of the Small […]