Small Business SEM

There’s a lot of buzz here at SMX West about the new “Open Search” idea that Yahoo introduced yesterday. The reaction is generally very positive, and the official announcement on Yahoo’s search blog has also generated a lot of discussion and, no doubt, a lot of traffic.
That announcement uses a restaurant listing from Yelp.com as [...]

For those of you who are new SBS readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month. You can scroll to the end to see previous Flashbacks.
Here come the links….

The Value of Ranking #1 in Dollars and [...]

I suppose this was inevitable: Flickr has finally put the no-follow tag on some of the outbound links that users can place on the photo-sharing service.
Here’s a look at the most recent photo on my personal photo stream, which includes a link to my personal blog, where I wrote about the photo in more [...]

Local search industry watchers have been saying for a while now that local search is primarily a search online, buy offline model. We look online for the right product, and then go buy it at a local store. I believe that to be a mostly accurate statement, although there are obvious exceptions. (I don’t go [...]

I was quite happy a few weeks ago when I looked at the Search Engine Land columnists’ calendar and saw that my next “Small Is Beautiful” column would be published on Valentine’s Day. Any time you publish on a holiday or special event, you pretty much have a free pass to write a cheesy article [...]

A lot of great photographers are scared to put their photos online because it’s so easy for other people to steal their work. I totally understand that. I’m hardly a great photographer, and I don’t want people stealing my photos, either! But I do want them to use my photos.
In the past year or [...]

Hi readers,
I need some help.
One of my longtime readers and frequent commenters is reporting that she’s unable to login to SBS and share a comment. She says that the attempts to login are being recognized, but on returning to the post, she keeps being asked to login time after time.
If you’re registered on this [...]

This is part three in a series on social marketing using Yahoo! Answers. If you missed earlier installments, please begin with the series introduction.
Yahoo! Answers is the #2 reference site on the Internet (behind Wikipedia). Its popularity provides an opportunity for smart online marketers to acquire targeted referral traffic, as well as indirect search engine [...]