Archive for April, 2007
April ‘07: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during April. If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature and will lead to something fun later in the year. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives. Only rule is that my own posts are not eligible. Small Business Stoney/Search [...]
Search marketing in the news…
Search marketing has been a hot topic in “big media” in recent months, but even more so in the last week. Elizabeth Holmes wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal last week (article link has expired, sorry) about how some small businesses are choosing not to bother with having a web site. Many small [...]
Friday Night Funnies
David Wallace gets the “Friday Night Funnies” award for this week with a post that had me LOLing and sharing the URL with my wife today: 10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict Great stuff! My non-award winning “funny” actually comes courtesy of my mother-in-law, who is so cute that she cuts “Internet [...]
Google Maps has a new Onebox Display
Google has made a few changes to its local search “Onebox” display, and the changes seem like they might be in reply to some of the criticism they received since introducing the new display in late January. Background: The link above points to a January 29th post I made showing a new Google Maps display [...]
Dilbert Reveals How NOT to Do Corporate Blogging
It’s the only comic I read anymore. Here’s one example why: Click to see the larger version at Dilbert.com
Latest SEL Column is Online
My latest “Small is Beautiful” column for Search Engine Land is now online: Meet Your New Employee: Writer, Marketer, Evangelist It’s essentially an encouragement to small business owners to give thought to the next permanent employee you hire. I’ve worked with so many clients (of all sizes) that just didn’t have the necessary people on [...]
TrueLocal Explains Strange SERPs
Colin Carmichael, Director of Product Development at TrueLocal.com, dropped by this morning to explain the funny/strange SERPs I noticed — and posted about — a couple nights ago. You can read Colin’s comment here, but here’s the main point: In a recent data update, we had a wee glitch that was complicated by a simultaneous [...]
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