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Chris Silver Smith
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Recent Posts
Local Newspapers Need To Embrace SEO To SurviveGoogle Custom Maps: A Goldmine For Local Businesses
Brave New World For Yellow Pages: Google Nabs Marketshare, Strangles Local Directories
Three Ways To Optimize Business For Local Search Via Online Newspapers
Should You Geotag Pages For Local SEO?
Idearc's Bankruptcy: Why? A Former Employee's View
Has Google Maps Switched From PageRank to "BizRank"?
Using Analytics For Local Search Optimization
Leveraging Reverse Search For Local SEO
Act Like A Cybersquatter To Capture Your Long-Tail Brand Traffic!
Harness The Power Of Twitter For Local Marketing
How To Geocode An Address & Optimize Location Pages
How To Appear In Multiple City Searches With One Website
What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 Ideas
Three Ways to Kick Up Your Local Marketing In Time for Black Friday & Cyber Mondays!
Local Business Marketing Tip: Turn Economic Lemons Into Sales Lemonade For The Holidays
Fall Fun: Viewing Cornfield Mazes Via Online Maps
Cell Phone Triangulation Accuracy Is All Over The Map
Forming Good Title Tags for Local Businesses
Yellow Pages Usage Stats Are Likely Wrong
Cool Sights In Google Street View
Creating An Enhanced Listing With Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey Application Development Platform
Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature
Use Universal Search To Leapfrog Local Rankings
Top Causes Of Errors In Online Mapping Systems
Recent Comments
Local Newspapers Need To Embrace SEO To SurviveSolarian, I seriously considered providing example links, but, frankly, there's virtually thousands of examples I could've used and I really didn't wi
Local Newspapers Need To Embrace SEO To SurviveWow - my coincidental timing couldn't have been better, what with Rupert Murdoch getting quoted this weekend as saying that he thinks they'll eventual
Google Custom Maps: A Goldmine For Local Businessesandrew - very cool map! Your map will already be searchable within the Google Maps portion of Google.
To get your map searchable/findable in the r
Google Custom Maps: A Goldmine For Local BusinessesTim, that map is a great example of the sorts of maps that local communities of users will find very useful!
Did you create the map by adding each
Be Wary Of Call Tracking Numbers In Local SearchI think David's right -- small businesses or chain-store companies which are struggling to achieve healthy rankings should maybe stay away from using
Despite Assurances, Google Places Pages Now Showing In Search ResultsDanny, I think Google should be very unhappy with the inefficiency that's exposed if they only have the noindex meta tag to use for keeping those page
Why You Can’t Dismiss All Directory LinksI like this article, though I wish you'd mentioned local directories. Those are valuable for ranking within Local Search.
Brave New World For Yellow Pages: Google Nabs Marketshare, Strangles Local DirectoriesInteresting observations, Andrew! Some of the smaller players such as up-and-rising HotFrog.com and CitySquares.com, along with those you mentioned,
Brave New World For Yellow Pages: Google Nabs Marketshare, Strangles Local DirectoriesInteresting observations, Andrew. Some of the smaller players like relatively recent phenomena such as CitySquares.com and HotFrog.com along with thos
The ASCII Version Of The Google LogoThat's a cute Easter Egg, but they should've also made it on a clickable DIV layer or something so that it could be linked to their homepage like thei
Which Internet Yellow Pages Site Has The Best Rankings?Andrew's observation is entirely correct - it's an "open secret" that most big IYPs buy traffic through partnerships in addition to many other traffic
Should You Geotag Pages For Local SEO?Good points, mattinertia, and I agree with you -- I've seen no direct correlation between geotagging and improved rankings.
I believe that geotaggi
Idearc’s Bankruptcy: Why? A Former Employee’s ViewHi, nikiscevak - I can understand your perspective, but a basic premise with most stock purchasing is that we have to have some assumptions of trustwo
Idearc’s Bankruptcy: Why? A Former Employee’s ViewPosiTracker, it really is not a case of the "deserving getting punished".
Predatory business practices or aggressive salesmanship are not caused b
Google Employee Alleged To Have Bypassed AdWords Trademark Policy For Own BenefitI have a theory as to how the trademark block was bypassed:
Google may allow ads to target trademark keywords, while the system checks against trad
Leveraging Reverse Search For Local SEOJWilson, I'd still say that it's really dependent upon whether it's apropos or not to give so much weight to street address.
Certainly, I'd suspect
Google Believes It Has Ended (Some) Hijacked Listings In Google MapsAt that SMX session, there seemed to be an awful lot of focus on the terminology used for "hijacking", rather than significantly improved methods for
How To Geocode An Address & Optimize Location PagesZuko - you're right - my bad!
The Head Profile attribute is not necessarily required for adding meta data to a webpage, but it's apparent that incl
How To Geocode An Address & Optimize Location PagesAlso, I didn't recommend using the Google geocoding API because I believe it's less user-friendly for inexperienced webmasters.
Most small busines
How To Geocode An Address & Optimize Location PagesZuko, most tagging is suppressed in these comments -- maybe you could provide a link to a page that describes the profile attribute in the head?
Al
Privacy Critics Don’t Give Google Enough ‘Latitude’I think you're entirely right: the possibility of someone snooping into one's personal belongings and setting stuff up inside one's belongings to sno
How To Appear In Multiple City Searches With One WebsiteWill, I think the best approach for what you describe would be to supply each of those listings with a single URL and use Cathy R - what you're describing is already the current situation. There were already mere mailing addresses appearing within Google Maps. Indeed, yo
What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 IdeasAdam, I believe some of them have used click-to-call tracking in the past. I'm not sure why it hasn't been expanded or made standard for all listings
What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 IdeasLookout/Kevin - your comments are all apt, I believe. You're entirely right, according to everything I know -- print books are still used. As I mentio
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