Archive for March, 2010
March ’10: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during March. 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 Link Roundups category archive. I never include my own posts in these end-of-month [...]
Personal Note: 1- and 2-Hour Consulting Blocks Now Available
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to share a small announcement: I’m now offering consulting services in one- and two-hour blocks of time. I hope this is helpful for the business owner who doesn’t need (or can’t afford) a larger, more traditional marketing campaign. Here’s how it works:
SEO Madness 2010 update
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is down to the final four teams, and our “SEO Madness” contest is still up for grabs. Frankly, with all the upsets this year, the contest looks like a wasteland of poor prognostication … but someone has to win, so we march on. As we head towards Final Four weekend, [...]
Warning: Don’t Use Google Maps Service/Home Business Tools Yet
Post-edit: Google has contacted me to explain that this problem is NOT related to the new Service Areas feature that’s being tested. Please scroll down for a full explanation. If you’re a small business owner or a marketer with small business clients using Google Maps’ Local Business Center, a warning: Do not use the new [...]
Google LBC Adds Tools for Service/Home Businesses
We’ve talked before about the failure of Google’s Local Business Center to provide a way for service-based and home-based businesses to use Google Maps without … well, cheating. A couple weeks ago at SMX West, Google’s Carter Maslan was asked about solving this problem and he said … “I don’t want to say ‘hold your [...]
Afraid of Blogging? Read This
I know a very talented writer who has a blog, but admits to being afraid of blogging. I’ll be sharing these links with that person, and thought I’d post them here since there’s bound to be more people out there in the same boat. At Remarkablogger, Michael Martine has finished a three-part series about overcoming [...]
GetListed Local University coming to Minneapolis – St. Paul
If you live in or near the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, area, consider yourself invited to the second GetListed.org Local University event. It’s happening May 13th in Edina, with two identical half-day seminars planned to teach small businesses how to increase visibility and do better business via local search.
Google is Crawling Foursquare for Local Citations (but not Gowalla)
Thanks to a good question on Twitter from John McPhee, I discovered this week that Google is crawling business profiles on Foursquare and using them as citations in Google Maps. They’re not, however, crawling Gowalla business profiles. More on that below, along with some bugs in how Google is using Foursquare as a citation source. [...]
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