Small Business SEM

Let’s see if I can crank this out on a quick lunch break…
What We Know: This is Awards Season. Every year, in many industries, the end of one year and start of a new year is a time for giving and receiving awards. It’s also the time for reviewing the year with Top 10 and [...]

The end of Google’s supplemental index means webmasters have one less tool to help determine overall site quality (in Google’s eyes). This “tool” was essentially rendered useless months ago when the green label disappeared from the SERPs, but many found different ways to get at the same data. Though I didn’t know it at the [...]

Cold weather, crowded shopping malls, and industry awards: three signs that tell you it’s the end of the year.
For the third time, Loren Baker is running the Search Blog Awards at Search Engine Journal. These awards are geared toward honoring the best blogs in the search industry, and I’m flattered to have been nominated by [...]

It’s beginning to look like Christmas in my office and family room.
The mailman just brought me a little black box with the familiar racing logo that belongs to Pole Position Marketing. I opened it up and found this super-cool USB Cup and Warming Plate, complete with the PPM logo and everything. Sweet! Thank [...]

Last week was probably the best ever for articles and posts about local search. Several things that caught my attention, which I’ll list and discuss as needed below.
Greg Sterling: TheFind Introduces Local Shopping
Ages ago, I wrote about real-time inventory being the “killer app” for local search. That’s the holy grail, at least where local search [...]

It’s been forever since I’ve done one of these, so here’s a themed roundup of previous posts on SBS that I hope will be beneficial to the growing new readership, and even to long-time readers who may have forgotten about some of these from the archives. Today’s theme is Local Search. These are ordered from [...]

Okay, small business owners … you may have read already about the new Google “Knol” project announced today. If not, click the earlier link for Google’s announcement, and don’t miss a great Danny Sullivan rundown on Knol at Search Engine Land.
This service isn’t open to the public yet. I’m assuming that if/when it does launch, [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve had a byline on Search Engine Land, but my latest “Small Is Beautiful” column is there now. The advice in there includes a few things I need to do with this blog and the other sites I manage (my U2 site, my wife’s real estate site, etc.). Hopefully there’s [...]