Archive for September, 2006
SES Local coverage, vol. 2
Yes, a rare Saturday post from yours truly … and not only that, but it’s also a Saturday post on an exceptionally busy Saturday night, as I get ready to head over to Seattle first thing in the morning for a 4-day trip. But, still, there’s always time to serve you, my faithful reader. More [...]
SES Local – initial coverage/articles
(Via Greg Sterling) Amy Gahran of Poynter Online has posted a couple articles from Thursday’s SES Local conference in Denver. And as Amy herself notes in the comments on Greg’s blog, she also has a post on Capture the Conversation. I’ll post more links as I find them, and I invite you to use the [...]
Friday Night Link-O-Rama
You know what they say? Link like you mean it…. Good find by Donna at SEO Scoop about Google and outbound linking. She covers a Webmaster World thread where Google’s Adam Lasnik clarifies that one bad outbound link (to a “bad neighborhood”) isn’t the end of the world; it’s patterns that the algorithm looks for. [...]
Local Search round-up
Lots of Local Search happenings at the moment, so here’s a pone-post summary for your enjoyment. Timed perfectly with the SES Local Conference in Denver, comScore today released all kinds of local search data from a recent study, including plenty of ammunition for those of us who are sold on the growing importance of this [...]
Strange goings-on with Merchant Circle
Let me tell you a story about a brief-but-strange part of my day today…. At about 4:30 pm, Kim from our front office (at OWT) came back to my office to tell me about a strange voicemail we’d just received. I was busy reading through my Bloglines, but my ears perked up when she explained [...]
Linkbaiting for Small Businesses (or, What I Learned Last Week)
Last week I broke one of my own rules for Small Business SEM: I wrote a post that had zero valuable marketing content for small businesses. The post I’m referring to, you can probably guess, is Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO. Small business owners were not the target audience for that [...]
More on Flickr as an SEO tool
Are more of us starting to recognize Flickr as a good marketing tool? It certainly is if your small business has a photovisual element to it — i.e., you have products for sale or something else that can be photographed and showed off as a means of attracting attention. I hope you’ve already read my [...]
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