Archive for June, 2006

SBS: Local Search Marketing Guide

Filed in Local Search by Matt McGee on June 11, 2006 1 Comment
SBS: Local Search Marketing Guide

After a couple weeks worth of research, I’ve finally completed … no, wrong word … I’ve finally gotten far enough along with a guide to local search marketing to make it public here on SBS. Local Search Marketing Guide Local search is wide open right now, with no clear-cut winner emerging yet among the major […]

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LinkRank (or, It Takes a Link Village)

Filed in Google, Link Building by Matt McGee on June 8, 2006 0 Comments
LinkRank (or, It Takes a Link Village)

The phrase “link neighborhood” has been going around in the SEO/SEM industry for several years now. The idea, essentially, is you are who you link to. And you can expand that, to some degree, to include you are who links to you. Now, that second part is a tough one to swallow because you have […]

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Small Business Marketing gets SES coverage

Filed in Miscellaneous by Matt McGee on June 7, 2006 0 Comments
Small Business Marketing gets SES coverage

This is cool. When I was in Seattle last month for the Search Engine Watch Live event, I was lucky enough to chat with Danny Sullivan for about 5-10 minutes after the workshop. One of the things we chatted about was the upcoming Search Engine Strategies – San Jose conference — the biggest of all […]

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Yahoo Updates Webmaster Help

Filed in MY BEST POSTS, SEO, Web Site Content, Yahoo by Matt McGee on June 5, 2006 0 Comments
Yahoo Updates Webmaster Help

Looks like Yahoo has updated and reorganized its Search/Webmaster help pages, which are worth reading for the small business owner/webmaster. I’d point out these pages in particular as worth reading, esp. if you’re new to the web development / SEO / SEM arena: Yahoo! Search Content Quality GuidelinesNice summary of DOs and DON’Ts. How do […]

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About the tagline

Filed in Site News by Matt McGee on June 5, 2006 0 Comments
About the tagline

You know that tagline I have here on SBS — “Because not everyone can throw thousands of dollars at the ‘How do we market ourselves online?’ question…” Right. Well in this thread on the SEW Forum, comes a post from “Aussie Webmaster” — a name I recognize and respect from several forums — who says, […]

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About the “More Good Stuff” links

Filed in Site News by Matt McGee on June 3, 2006 0 Comments
About the “More Good Stuff” links

Just dropping a quick note to let you know that I’ve added a bunch of new links to the “More Good Stuff” link section in the left column. I also removed one link today. Those are links that I read (as often as possible), and I include them here specifically because these are resources that […]

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