Archive for July, 2009
Update: Citysearch & Free Business Listings
UPDATE: For the latest information, please see: Citysearch Brings Back Free Business Listings, Adds Twitter ———— My post earlier this week about Citysearch no longer accepting free business listings has generated a lot of comments, and more importantly, also generated a response from Citysearch itself. I’ve traded a couple emails and had a chat with [...]
Citysearch Kills Free Business Listings
UPDATE: Citysearch has reinstated free business listings. Please see this post for details: Citysearch Brings Back Free Business Listings, Adds Twitter. ——————– I’ve spent the past two months trying to get an answer from Citysearch to a very simple question: Where on your web site can a small business submit a free listing? The lack [...]
Yahoo’s Newspaper Ad Program in My Hometown
Couldn’t help but notice and pay attention when I saw these ads running in the Tri-City Herald this week. These are ads promoting the fact that my local paper (part of the McClatchy Group) is now part of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. I wrote on SEL a couple months ago about the success of this [...]
Twitter Tips for Small Business
Little secret: A couple weeks ago I started writing a small business Twitter guide. It’s not finished yet, and now I’m not sure I even need to finish it. Over on Small Business Trends yesterday, Anita Campbell collected tips and hints from her readers and published: 137 Small Business Twitter Tips It’s a free e-book [...]
SBS Flashback: July 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. GroupThink: You Have One Page to Optimize… Why [...]
When Social Media & PR Matters More Than SEO
I’ve been contacted twice in the last three months by small business owners looking for SEO help — but needing PR and social media a lot more than SEO. In both cases, the companies offered what I’d call fairly innovative products and services. The problem is that no one would ever think to use Google, [...]
Google’s Gadget is Great, But Not for Local SEO
Google has a new gadget/widget that any webmaster can embed onto a web page so users can easily get directions from their location to your small business. If, for example, you were planning to drive to Kennewick for a meeting with my wife to talk about the great Tri-Cities real estate market and the joy [...]
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