Archive for April, 2008

Twittering for Charity: Follow Me

| April 30, 2008 | 13 Comments

Summary: If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll be helping to raise money for a good cause. Please follow me, then come back to read on for more details….. Twittering for Charity It’s no secret that I’ve been trying to be the last person on Twitter for some time now. You may also know that [...]

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Not That It Matters: Toolbar PageRank was Updated

| April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

I know I shouldn’t post about this … heck, some of you will tell me I shouldn’t even look at it, but one of those coolio Firefox plugins makes the little green bar show up right down there where my eyes always look, so I just notice these things. Anyway, toolbar PageRank has been updated. [...]

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Yahoo Answers: 11 Million Answers per Month

Yahoo Answers: 11 Million Answers per Month

| April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments

Right after my Local Search Workshop at the SBMU show in Houston on Tuesday, I flew to Long Beach to catch the second day of the SMX Social Media conference. This was another small show — just about 150 in attendance from what I could tell. Just as I did in NYC last October, I [...]

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The Future of Search Conferences: Smaller Is Better

The Future of Search Conferences: Smaller Is Better

| April 25, 2008 | 10 Comments

I called my wife from Houston this past Monday afternoon and left a quick message on her voicemail: “If you’re going to come to a search conference again next year, you should probably come to this one.” The “this one” I was referring to was Small Business Marketing Unleashed 2008, the first of what I [...]

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SBMU 2008 is Underway

SBMU 2008 is Underway

| April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

This is some of the schwag available to attendees at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed 2008 conference, which is underway tonight with a charity networking event at the Northwest Forest Conference Center in Cypress, TX (outside Houston). The 2-day conference formally kicks off tomorrow morning. I’ll be presenting the SEO Success Pyramid during the opening [...]

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An Outline for 90 Minutes of Local Search

An Outline for 90 Minutes of Local Search

| April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments

I’m finally finished. After griping about the challenge of putting together an interesting 90-minute presentation on a single topic, I’m actually somewhat pleased with the final results. I’m talking about the “Local Search Workshop” I’ll be leading next week at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference in Houston. So, what on earth am I going [...]

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SBS Flashback: April 2007

| April 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

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. Google Maps has a new Onebox Display YouTube Marketing Tips 8 Things Google Maps is Missing Happy National Look Alike [...]

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An SEO’s Tools: A Hammer or a Paintbrush?

An SEO’s Tools: A Hammer or a Paintbrush?

| April 14, 2008 | 9 Comments

Give a bad Web site to a good SEO, and you have a match made in heaven. A good SEO knows what tools to use when fixing a site. I don’t mean these kinds of tools (i.e., Firefox plugins, Greasemonkey scripts, etc.) in the literal sense, I mean figurative tools. Like this: Do I need [...]

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