Comments on: Quick Look: LocalGuides.com is Impressive http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/727/ Because not everyone can throw thousands of dollars at the 'How do we market ourselves online?' question... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:05:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: reuableahcim http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/727/#comment-10124 reuableahcim Fri, 18 May 2007 21:27:55 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/05/17/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/#comment-10124 Heya. I'm Michael Bauer, the Local Guides Guy. Thanks for all the thoughtful comments. Happy to field any questions you might have. There's a site feedback link at the bottom of the site. Feel free to use it and mention me. I'm doing a little blogging on it as well at www.michaelbauer.com. Mostly about the history and decision-making process. As for spam, we're not keeping it out quite yet. We're keeping our thinking open and looking to allow people to add commercial information as long as they add some value along the way. If not, guides can be flagged as inappropriate and pulled from the system. As for "voting" we're just using most viewed and copied as some of the initial proxies. We have a full voting regime sorted out, just not sure we want to put it out there yet. Heya. I’m Michael Bauer, the Local Guides Guy. Thanks for all the thoughtful comments. Happy to field any questions you might have. There’s a site feedback link at the bottom of the site. Feel free to use it and mention me. I’m doing a little blogging on it as well at http://www.michaelbauer.com. Mostly about the history and decision-making process. As for spam, we’re not keeping it out quite yet. We’re keeping our thinking open and looking to allow people to add commercial information as long as they add some value along the way. If not, guides can be flagged as inappropriate and pulled from the system.

As for “voting” we’re just using most viewed and copied as some of the initial proxies. We have a full voting regime sorted out, just not sure we want to put it out there yet.

]]> By: Local Guides Beta Launch : Natural Search Blog http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/727/#comment-10122 Local Guides Beta Launch : Natural Search Blog Fri, 18 May 2007 14:28:28 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/05/17/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/#comment-10122 [...] Also check out Perry Evans’s blog entry about the new service. Matt at Small Business SEM also thinks the Local Guides service is pretty impressive. Technorati Tags: Local Guides, Local Matters, local search [...] [...] Also check out Perry Evans’s blog entry about the new service. Matt at Small Business SEM also thinks the Local Guides service is pretty impressive. Technorati Tags: Local Guides, Local Matters, local search [...]

]]> By: Miriam http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/727/#comment-10112 Miriam Fri, 18 May 2007 04:20:22 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/05/17/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/#comment-10112 Full of questions here, too. I don't feel that their homepage is really telling me 'how it works'. Matt, if you get good with this, would you post something as good as your Flickr post about it? I'm not immediately getting this. Thanks! Miriam Full of questions here, too. I don’t feel that their homepage is really telling me ‘how it works’.

Matt, if you get good with this, would you post something as good as your Flickr post about it? I’m not immediately getting this.

Thanks!
Miriam

]]> By: krtup http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/727/#comment-10110 krtup Fri, 18 May 2007 00:54:29 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/05/17/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/#comment-10110 I noticed the Kid's Birthday guide on the front page and was surprised to find there was a guide for the small town of Chico, CA. So...out of curiosity, I checked another small town nearby (Redding, CA). The same guide existed...which I thought was interesting. Then I noticed the link at the top to all of "KidGuide's" guides. The same guide is ready for 60 pages worth of cities. So that made me even more curious...and then I looked at the bottom of the page...their site is powered by superpages.com, hence, all the content. I noticed the Kid’s Birthday guide on the front page and was surprised to find there was a guide for the small town of Chico, CA. So…out of curiosity, I checked another small town nearby (Redding, CA). The same guide existed…which I thought was interesting. Then I noticed the link at the top to all of “KidGuide’s” guides. The same guide is ready for 60 pages worth of cities.

So that made me even more curious…and then I looked at the bottom of the page…their site is powered by superpages.com, hence, all the content.

]]> By: Mike Bradbury http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/727/#comment-10109 Mike Bradbury Thu, 17 May 2007 20:17:51 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/05/17/quick-look-localguidescom-is-impressive/#comment-10109 How do they keep out spam? is there a voting system for which guides are best? I've been looking over it. Questions abound. How do they keep out spam? is there a voting system for which guides are best?

I’ve been looking over it. Questions abound.

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