Small Business SEM

In the days after the SMX West conference last month, I recapped the “Local Search & Blended Results” session here on SBS, pointing out a comment from the Yahoo! speaker about the non-impact of reviews and ratings on the three local business listings that show up in Yahoo!’s Local Shortcut.
Problem is, I got the [...]

On the chance that some of my readers don’t have Karl Ribas’ blog bookmarked (why not?!), let me point you over his way for …
An Interview with Matt McGee
We covered a lot of stuff. (That’s a euphemism for I’m a wordy S.O.B.) And the best thing, for me, about doing this kind of thing, [...]

One of the fun parts of SES San Jose last week was the chance to do my first interview with the crew at WebProNews. WPN seems to be doing more video interviews at every show I go to, and creating a really great resource archive in the process.
I always enjoyed doing interviews back in [...]

(Why are vacations always so tiring? I’m barely halfway through my vacation week and I already need another vacation. Someday: Vacation on Moorea with no plans but to relax.)
How about some mid-week housekeeping? Here ya go….
1) If you need some help with search-friendly URLs, you may want to read through Mary McKnight’s interview with yours [...]

In an attempt to score a free, R/T Hawaiian vacation, I agreed to chat this week with Honolulu’s own Matt Webb. Matt gets the inbound link, he’s getting home page exposure on Sphinn, and me? No trip to Hawaii, after all. (sigh)
Seriously, Matt gave me a chance to think and talk about something that’s been [...]

Some days I’m just full of great ideas. Aaron Weiche happened to catch me on one of those days recently when he asked me about ideas for his local portal site, Find Buffalo, which covers the Buffalo, MN, area.
But the really great idea was Aaron’s, because that question was part of his Local Search [...]

A quick update on my post earlier this week about the upcoming SEMpdx conference in Portland.
As a preview of the presentations, conference organizers are posting “mini-interviews” with various speakers. Here’s mine. You can also catch the Stoney deGeyter mini-interview here. I don’t see one from Rand Fishkin online yet. Rand, Stoney, and I are presenting [...]

Another interview with moi? Yes, it is. So let me squeeze in a post about it while I’m grabbing some lunch. (I generally post in the evening….)
Michael has posted the local search interview we did via e-mail a couple weeks ago. Hope you enjoy the information there, and be sure to read the other interviews, [...]