Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This is just a quick pointer over to my Search Engine Guide article about Review Sites for the Hospitality Industry. I spent a couple of hours combing 1000 reviews listed in Google Maps for B&Bs, Hotels, Restaurants, etc. and made a list of all of the great sources from which […]

Photograph of Chief Yellow Shirt of the Hunkpapa Sioux/Axis Deer To the readers who have visited our blog over the past year for updates on the massacre of the Fallow and Axis Deer of Point Reyes, CA., I am sorrowful to report that the last remnant of the Axis deer family will be destroyed during […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! We’ve gotten no work done around here tonight for a very good reason. We just received our copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3! Above, you will see the very cool gaucho (potentially one of my ancestors) that I have freehand drawn using this latest version of Photoshop in the Adobe Creative […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Mike Blumenthal is really keeping on top of this stuff! As he reports, the missing Yelp, City Search and Insiderpages reviews have reappeared in Google Maps. How did Google lose these? How did they find them again? I suspect that will remain a mystery! This came as very silly timing […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Well, I can hardly believe it, but I’m a SEMMYs finalist! Voting is now open here here here if you’d like to swing by and read the 6 super final entries in the Online Marketing/General category. In the Small Business and Local Categories, we lost our foothold to our very […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! This post is me jotting this down as part of an ongoing attempt to keep current with how Google Maps, and in particular, Google Reviews, are evolving. On November 28, 2007, Mike Blumenthal published this post documenting that reviews from the outside source CitySearch had disappeared from Google Maps, causing […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I’ve been hanging out at Mike Blumenthal’s local blog for the past few days waiting to hear the news that the new local one box – I’m thinking of it as the 10 box at this point – had gone live. Well, it has: Where local businesses once only had […]

Greetings from inside the SEO igloo! Our company, Solas Web Design, has been very proud of our Google local organic rankings for the term Sonoma County Web Design for several years, now. We have an indented listing at #1 and #2 for this nice little phrase in the organic SERPs. But vary the wording of […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! In both spoken and written English, we use the pronoun it to take the place of a noun that has already been specified at some earlier point in the conversation or document. For example, we generally write or say: Bill threw the cake and it splattered on the wall. We […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This is just a short note I’m jotting down out of frustration that Google Maps, for some reason I can’t guess at, does not seem to enable users to leave reviews of State or National parks. I checked for this function on a handful of parks I visit, and that […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Looking back some 5, 6, 7 years, do you remember when other media began to take on the look of web pages? Magazine articles with layouts that looked like a masthead/main body/left nav menu combo? T.V. commercials with cursor-like arrows zipping around on them to draw your attention to various […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, This past week, I read with tremendous interest, Kim Krause Berg’s post on her bad Usability Experience attempting to file for financial aid for her child who is about to start college. Kim lives in Pennsylvania and her state is requiring parents to file for this service online, despite the […]

Exciting News from inside the SEOigloo Blog! Our friend, Matt McGee of Small Business SEM has just launched a wonderful new group of awards for the SEO/SEM industry, The SEMMYs. The goal of these awards is to honor the very best blog posts that have been written during the past year in 15 industry categories. […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! A couple of weeks ago, I noticed something odd happening with two Google reviews I had written for local businesses. When I went back today to check on them, I saw that the same ‘weirdness’ was still going on, and this led me to performing some other Maps searches to […]