Small Business Search Marketing

GroupThink is where I turn the blog post over to you.
DMOZ, AKA the Open Directory Project, has long been thought to be dead by most of the SEO community. “Submit and forget about it” is the common advice we’ve been giving out for a couple years now; obsessing over getting that trusted directory link just [...]

I’ve been living in directory submission land lately, looking for quality directories where I can submit my wife’s and my four local blogs, which are new and in need of some basic links.
It’s been a while since I’ve gone out on the hunt for links from quality directories, and the experience these past few days [...]

(What a week…is it really Friday?)
One of the best posts I’ve read all year: The Future of Communications – A Manifesto for Integrating Social Media into Marketing by Brian Solis. Yes, it’s long. Yes, it starts a bit slow. But you’ll be glad you read the whole thing very carefully.
And on a somewhat related note, [...]

“We all want to be big, big stars … but we got different reasons for that”
Let’s start with a couple from one of my favorite topics: Local Search. First, Greg Sterling has an interesting write-up about an interesting search tool called “Palore” that can add a lot of valuable information to local search business listings. [...]

It was more than four months ago that I reported about what looked like the closure of the bCentral Small Business Directory. Today, MSN sent out an email to directory participants detailing what we suspected all along: It’s being retired.
But, the language in their bCentral transition FAQ is more than a bit confusing.
Effective May 18th [...]

And she’s buying a stairway to linkheaven…
Hot off the presses is a good post from Loren Baker within the last couple hours titled Link Building : Measuring Directory Value. He sums up another discussion on the topic and adds in a few additional ideas and resources.
Lee Odden, one of my former interviewees, has a [...]