When I’m called upon to list my credentials and associations, one that I mention with greatest pride is my participation in David Mihm’s annual report which has just been published today: Local Search Ranking Factors. I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of this premier industry survey since its inception, and I must say, this […]

Here’s a great question from a reader that I thought deserved a blog-post-length reply. Reader, Amy, writes: My issue is that I’ve recently joined a company (client-side) and there’s no trace of who set up the LBC listings for each of our hotels, whether it was someone internal or not. So now that i need […]

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, […]

Some months ago, we were approached by a family business that really interested me. The Robbins family have been purveyors of replacement china for 10 years from their Kentucky-based business. Their inventory is absolutely vast. If you are looking for a specific china pattern, chances are, Robbins Nest has got it or can find it […]

Greetings from Inside the SEOigloo! Over the past six months or so, I have been looking at real estate all over the state of California with my husband because we are contemplating a move. Tonight, Google’s SERPs presented me with an option I had never seen before in all of my searching. The search I […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! I’ve just written a guest post over at 14th colony: The Death of Brick-and-Mortar – 2 Sides. There is a rising trend in both small and big business shutting the doors of their traditional retail locations and changing to a solely e-commerce platform in order to cut costs. What are […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo, I’ll begin today’s post with a description of a normal day for us at Solas Web Design: I get up, my husband makes tea, I turn on my computer and check all emails. My husband sets the tea down for me, I give him a little kiss of thanks, and […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! My husband and I have a special affinity for small business e-commerce websites. As our portfolio shows, the majority of projects we’ve worked on to date have been for small sales-oriented companies, whether they make their own products, or retail products they are getting from a wholesaler. The goal for […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Today, Gord Hotchkiss posted about his recent interview with Ms. Mayer of Google over at Search Engine Land. If you haven’t yet read up on Google’s new personalized search strategies, Danny Sullivan’s definitive post on the subject will teach you all about exactly what personalized search is and how it […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! My father is an honest man. In point of fact, people have often accused him of being too honest. Some years ago when he was trying to sell my parents’ house which, to tell the truth, had a lot of things wrong with it, my mother and I listened to […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! David Gale has started a game of tag in the SEO industry. See the tag tree. I got tagged by Rand over at 14th Colony, and now I’m supposed to list 5 things my readers may not know about me, and tag 5 other people. 1) The older I get, […]

Greetings from inside the SEO Igloo! It does appear to me that some folks tolerate winter more than others. I find the loss of warmth and short days can combine to leave me feeling a bit low. But, because I believe that a realistic pursuit of happiness comes from taking joy in the small things, […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! As an adult whose work-life centers around the Internet, it may be that I have an important perspective to share about children and computers. In my childhood, a computer was something to play video games on, a safe at-home pastime that didn’t require direct supervision from one of my parents. […]

Greetings from inside the SEOigloo! Just a little post to let folks know that I may be blogging a bit less than usual during the next week or so. I just started a contract today for a portrait commission. As you may or may not know, prior to becoming a slave to my Photoshop program, […]