Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This week in local, Mike Blumenthal turned over a rock and discovered what appeared to be a cluster of brash affiliate spammers creeping around Yahoo! Local. His Search Engine Land article included nice screenshots of the Marriott Hotel chain with very weird URLs in their local listings. It looked to […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Back in January, I blogged about the fact that Google was failing to count their own reviews in the A-J listings and the small popup in Maps. One had to click into the bigger popup to see Google reviews counted amongst the other reviews from outside sources. So, a site […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Subdivisions and franchise shopping centers, the disappearance of unions and local manufacturing – these are a few of the many features of modern life that have slowly led to a disappearance of strong community feelings in much of America. Have you ever met your town mayor? Do you even know […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Here is a challenge we’ve run into enough times over the years to make it seem worth a blog post to me. I would really appreciate hearing from all readers on this subject. What do you do when you’re building a website or doing SEO for a local business and […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, I’m sure you’ve seen this for your own local business or with your client’s listings. I’d like to provide an example of shifting results between the 3-pack and internal Google Maps results. We launched a website for our client a couple of months ago who offers licensed elder care services. […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! It’s true. I’m a great one for asking questions, and someone has noticed this. Check out Will Scott’s Local Search post Miriam Ellis Asks A Lot Of Questions. In a recent post, I asked Will how much linkbuilding his company does for small business clients. I think you will find […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! My friend Tim at Convert Offline has just posted a very thoughtful article on the exclusivity of client contracts. As Tim points out, there are some concerns that if an SEO or SEM were to take on multiple clients in the same industry, they would essentially be competing against one […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! This week, I started a local search thread at Cre8asite Forums. My friend, Kulpreet Singh, asked a question that I felt was so good, and likely to be of concern to so many local business owners, that I am going to post it here and ask for my readers’ to […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Our friend Tim at Convert Offline has just published his Internet Advertising Matrix – an incredibly handy illustrated checklist of both paid and local inclusions across the spectrum of AOL, Ask, Google, Local, MSN, Superpages, Yahoo, and Yellow Pages. Whether you are a search marketer or a small business owner, […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I was thinking today about that fact that both Mike and Will work with clients in various medical fields. We seem pretty much agreed on the idea that a local business with multiple locations will likely be best served by creating a unique page for each of those locations. But […]
We enjoy all of the projects we take on, but sometimes, a client and a concept comes along that is so exciting to us, work becomes more like entertainment because we are having so much fun. I knew from the moment I first spoke with John W. Tuggle on the phone that this was going […]
Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! In the name of usability and not having to go five different places to meet five great Local SEOs, here’s my list of links to the five interviews its been my pleasure to publish over the past two weeks: Mike Blumenthal David Mihm Local Hound Tim Will Scott Andrew Shotland […]
