Archive for May, 2009
May ’09: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during May. If you’re new to this blog, this is a monthly feature that began way back in 2007. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives: 2008 Best Posts and 2007 Best Posts. I never include my own [...]
Locksmith Spam on Bing? You Bet
During all the coverage of Microsoft’s new “Bing” on Search Engine Land today, David Mihm wondered what Bing looks like on a search for locksmiths in NYC and hoped maybe MSFT would clean up the spam a bit. Apparently not: Here’s the thing: The switch to Bing apparently doesn’t include an algorithm/relevance update, only changes [...]
What Matters in Local SEO in 2009
If you’re a small business owner, chances are pretty good that Local SEO matters to you. If you think it would help to understand how Google and Yahoo rank web sites in their local search results, please check out the Local Search Ranking Factors 2009, published today by David Mihm. I’m one of 27 SEOs [...]
Small Biz Owners: Warming Up to Blogging
Found this one on the US News & World Report web site — it cites a study of 1,210 small businesses with fewer than 100 employees: While celebrities and the under 25-year-old population are flocking to Twitter, small business owners are just realizing the full potential of blogging. Use of blogs for specific business purposes [...]
How I’d Launch a New Small Business
All the experts say that now, with our economy in a slowdown, is the best time to start a new business. I’m super happy as an independent SEO consultant and not looking to start a new business right now, but I know many people are. With that in mind, I’ve written a guest post on [...]
SBS Flashback: May 2008
For those of you who are new SBSM 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 to introduce new readers to old content that might be worth reading. Local Blogging: Don’t Forget the Local Stuff Yahoo [...]
This Explains My Recent Health Problems
At the ad:tech conference last month, I had the pleasure of doing another interview with Abby Johnson of WebProNews — this one was about local search, about Google showing local results on non-local searches, and even about news search a bit, too. Coincidentally, my right shoulder has been bothering me for some time now. I [...]
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