Small Business Search Marketing

Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts during May. If you’re new to SBS, this is a monthly feature. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives. Only rule is that my own posts are not eligible.
Local Search

David Mihm: Local vs Traditional SEO: Why Citation Is the New Link

SEO

David/SearchRank: Keyword [...]

At the risk of appearing vain, here’s a quick update on my life/career status. I share this only because friends and peers are emailing to ask how things are and what my plans are since I lost my job a month ago. (That post ranks #1 for “SEO career advice”, by the way. Hehehehe!)
I’ve had [...]

I’m bullish on hyperlocal blogging. It’s already popular in many larger cities; Seattle, for example, has a great community of bloggers who are not writing about the city, but writing about their own neighborhoods — and doing it well. Local blogging is also big in the real estate industry, which is a natural fit: Real [...]

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure the original plan was to do another Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference next year, probably around a year after the first one wrapped up last month in Houston. Then this happened: Robert, Jennifer, Rachel, Vickie, and the whole gang hit an absolute home run with SBMU [...]

For the past month or so, some folks on WebmasterWorld have been discussing recent changes in Yahoo’s SERPs. Some of the more recent comments suggest that Yahoo is looking heavily at keywords in domain names.
I agree 1,000%.
As I type this, I’m looking at a site that is currently at #10 on Yahoo for [cityname real [...]

I’ve now presented the SEO Success Pyramid to two different audiences, and each time I’ve learned something new about it.
Presentation #1
The first presentation was at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference last month in Houston. The presentation lasted about 20-25 minutes. In the process of creating and rehearsing that presentation, I learned a lot [...]