Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! I am exceedingly honored to have been invited by Kim Krause Berg to become a moderator of the SEO category at Cre8asite Forums. Former moderator Rand Fishkin has found it necessary to turn his attention elsewhere (he’s a busy guy!) and I will do my best to pick up where […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! Andrew Shotland, everybody’s favorite Local SEO Guide, is chatting with us today from Pleasanton, California. Andrew offers SEO and SEM consulting, and his past work with Insider Pages makes him a fascinating fellow to speak with about Local Search. We feel very lucky to have this opportunity of interviewing him. […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! If you caught my earlier post regarding the Canoe Guy’s missing reviews, I have an update on the situation to share. This afternoon, I phoned Charles at CanoeSport in Houston, Texas and he was gracious enough to chat with me about the reviews that have gone missing from his Google […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I’m putting this out as a general question. When we get a new client and set about registering them in Google’s LBC, we are creating an individual account for them, filling out their information, and then dealing with the whole phone call/pin number thing while having the client sit by […]

When Mike Blumenthal posted about a Google Maps for Business Owners Group rep appearing to upsell Adwords to a local business owner seeking better Maps rankings, it put me in mind of one of 2007’s most dramatic happenings – the Denver Florist episode. To recap: the Denver florist reported that his business had collapsed because […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! The series of interviews we’ve been running with great local SEOs has inspired us to get cracking on devoting a page on our business website to the local SEO services we offer to clients. Up until now, the formula we’re witnessing is that local businesses are coming to us for […]

Will Scott of Search Influence publishes the Website Promotion is Not Voodoo Blog, which immediately caught my eye for its Local-oriented content. I’m really pleased to have the chance to chat with Will today. Will: Miriam, first let me say how flattered I am to be included. Our real strength is in locally focused SEO, […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! I first became aware of Local Hound Tim’s blog Convert Offline when it hosted one of the local search industry’s most interesting conversations of 2007. Since then, I’ve followed Tim’s writing with real interest, and I am gratified to have the chance of asking him some one-on-one questions. Miriam: Call […]

David Mihm is a talented web designer and SEO with a handsome roster of local search clients in the S.F. Bay Area. David’s big news for 2008 is that he is now working toward becoming the Local go-to guy in Portland, Oregon, and though I’m sorry to lose him from my own neck of the […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I’ve made no secret of the fact that one of my goals for 2008 is to become a power reviewer in Google Maps. Let the rest of the world keep busy digging and twittering their lives away – I love Google Maps and I take my self-appointed position of human […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! Today, I have the honor of chatting with Mike Blumenthal, whose blog, Understanding Google Maps and Yahoo Local is absolutely the most visited local search blog in my feedreader. Mike’s website development and hosting company, Blumenthal’s has been serving the public since 1994 out of their offices in Olean, NY. […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! What Is Local SEO And Why Do You Need It? If your business offers products or services to your local community, you need Local SEO. If you belong to an organization whose mission revolves around a local issue or need, you need Local SEO. Even if your business has local, […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, We’re currently working on a most awesome website for a truly talented guitar player. One of the things he does is teach people to play their favorite songs, and one of the popular songs he teaches is a 1976 hit called More Than A Feeling by Boston. I vaguely remembered […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! For the past couple weeks, Mike has been documenting the very real angst small local business owners have been suffering as a result of finding themselves incorrectly categorized in Google Maps. Imagine if you were a carpet cleaner, but the closest thing you could find in Google’s Local Business Center’s […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, The image at right is the cover of the novel I’ve just finished writing for my own pleasure. I’ve been writing novels since I was a young girl, and as an adult, have continued to do so for the entertainment of loved ones. I spent about a year writing this […]