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Finally, Glass Almanac Has 1 Visit from Bing (and Yahoo, too!)

Filed in Bing, Google, SEO, Yahoo by Matt McGee on September 12, 2013 1 Comment
Finally, Glass Almanac Has 1 Visit from Bing (and Yahoo, too!)

Since I mentioned a month ago that Google and Bing are handling my new GlassAlmanac.com website soooo differently, I want to share this update: The site finally got its first visit from Bing. And it also has one visit from Yahoo, too! The Bing visit happened back on August 25, two weeks after I wrote […]

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I Think Yahoo Neighbors Could Be Huge

Filed in Local Search, Yahoo by Matt McGee on September 8, 2009 9 Comments
I Think Yahoo Neighbors Could Be Huge

Another collision of local search and social conversation: It’s called Yahoo Neighbors, and I think it has the potential to be really big and really important in the local/small business space. That link points to my fairly lengthy overview on Search Engine Land. Yahoo Neighbors is essentially a forum or message board for every town […]

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Google: A 3.5 Star Company

Filed in Google, Yahoo by Matt McGee on August 28, 2009 6 Comments
Google: A 3.5 Star Company

Google Maps users have spoken and the verdict is clear: They say Google is a 3.5 star company. I’ve looked at Google’s local business listing many times before, but don’t think I ever noticed so many reviews until today. I’m sure they’ve been there; I just wasn’t noticing them. After years of looking at the […]

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Yahoo’s Newspaper Ad Program in My Hometown

Filed in SEM, Yahoo by Matt McGee on July 22, 2009 3 Comments
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 […]

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Yahoo Answers: No Links for New Folks

Filed in Social Media, Yahoo by Matt McGee on July 1, 2009 16 Comments
Yahoo Answers: No Links for New Folks

If you’re a small business owner that’s following my advice (or anyone’s) about marketing on Yahoo Answers, things just got a little more difficult today. Yahoo says that Level 1 users will no longer be able to include active links in their answers. You can still include a URL, but it won’t appear as an […]

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Yahoo’s Local Push: SearchMonkey and PPC Targeting

Filed in Local Search, PPC Advertising, Yahoo by Matt McGee on October 20, 2008 2 Comments
Yahoo’s Local Push: SearchMonkey and PPC Targeting

There are a couple articles I published on Search Engine Land over the past few days that I think bear mentioning here for their meaning to small businesses. If you’ve already seen both of these articles, move along. 🙂 Yahoo Adds Local Content To Search Results Via SearchMonkey What’s going on: All Yahoo web searchers […]

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