Archive for December, 2008
Thank You, Sponsors
The year is ending, and in the next few days I’ll announce the winner of the 2008 Search Quiz and share some other 2008-in-review and 2009-in-preview posts, but I want to wrap up this year with a big shout-out to the sponsors who are currently supporting me and this blog. These are companies that value [...]
December ’08: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Time again for a roundup of the best search/marketing posts of the past month … this time we’re covering December. 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. Small Business Don [...]
Business Blogging is a Good Idea, Stats Be Damned
Small business owners might see a chart like this and decide that starting a blog is overrated: That’s from an eMarketer article today that actually spins the data positively: 47% of the online population reads blogs. The flip side is that big bottom line — the 53% that don’t, according to this survey. The problem [...]
Bylines Elsewhere…
I’m first up in a series of local search posts that Mike Blumenthal is hosting called “Loci 2008.” In the series, Mike is asking a number of search industry people to name their favorite/most important local search-related articles of 2008. Here’s my list: Loci 2008: Matt McGee’s Favorite Articles in Local Search And I think [...]
2008 Search Quiz Now Open!
Time for some year-end fun: It’s the 2nd Annual Search Quiz! And this year, the quiz is twice as long, twice as tough, and the winner’s prize is twice as big. Don’t remember last year? Well, it was an 11-question quiz and the super-smart Tamar Weinberg won a $25 Amazon gift certificate. This year? The [...]
Merry Christmas One and All…
The Pacific Northwest is a veritable winter wonderland at the moment: A light snow is falling, landing on top of about a foot of snow that’s already on the ground; the temperature is about 15 degrees; “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is playing softly on my iTunes, and Santa Claus should be here any [...]
Reputation Management … the Air Force Way
David Meerman Scott has a fascinating interview with Capt. David Faggard, who works at the Pentagon as the Chief of Emerging Technology at the Air Force Public Affairs Agency. That’s a mouthful, but as I read the interview, it basically means that Capt. Faggard is the Air Force’s social media guru. With Capt. Faggard at [...]
Local Search Queries on the Rise
Found this Mike Boland post on the Kelsey Blog 10 days ago, but have been too busy to do anything with it before now. Mike presents a pair of charts that Yahoo Local’s Atif Rafiq presented at SES Chicago earlier this month, both of which show a steady — you could say substantial — rise [...]
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