Posts Tagged ‘local search’

SEO & Social Media Workshop – Next Week in Tri-Cities

{ Posted on Feb 08 2010 by admin }
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If you’re in the Tri-Cities area, Spokane, Seattle, or even Portland, I hope you’re making plans to come out to Learn About Web next week in Kennewick. It’s happening on February 18th, and you can use code LAW0208 to register ...Read More »

How to Choose the Right Category in Google’s Local Listings

{ Posted on Feb 08 2010 by admin }
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One of the most important things a small business can do with its listing in the Google Local Business Center is choose the right category(ies). In fact, “Associating LBL w/Proper Categories” scored very highly in last year’s Local Search Ranking ...Read More »

Welcome GetListed Local University – Spokane Attendees

{ Posted on Feb 04 2010 by admin }
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If you’re reading this while at the GetListed Local University seminar, a big welcome to you. Thanks for visiting SmallBusinessSEM.com. In my presentation, I mention a couple dozen web sites, articles, and other links that you may not have had ...Read More »

Online Marketing Reading Suggestion

{ Posted on Jan 05 2010 by admin }
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As long as I’m handing out reading suggestions today, here’s another one. Don’t miss Tamar Weinberg’s excellent annual Best Of post: Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009 I’m happy to see a few of my posts on the list, both from here ...Read More »

Local Search Reading Suggestion

{ Posted on Jan 05 2010 by admin }
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Mike Blumenthal is running an annual series of posts that involves a variety of people writing guest articles about important things that happened in local search during the previous year. I sent in a short piece a few days ago ...Read More »

Best of Search Conferences 2009: The Agenda

{ Posted on Dec 28 2009 by admin }
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Continuing our tradition, the third annual Best of Search Conferences 2009 is upon us. Over the last year there were five search engine marketing conferences that Bruce Clay, Inc. covered live on the blog, including SMX West, SES New York, ...Read More »

You’re a Favorite Place? Now Promote It

{ Posted on Dec 15 2009 by admin }
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Awards and recognition are great … but other than putting a smile on your face and a spring in your step, most honors don’t amount to much for a company’s bottom line. Unless you promote it. If you’ve been recognized by ...Read More »

Google’s Favorite Places Discriminates Against Some Local Businesses

{ Posted on Dec 09 2009 by admin }
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That’s one of my recent tweets, inspired by seeing early reports of local businesses getting their “Favorite Place” decals from Google. It’s also inspired, I suppose, by a bit of envy … because my wife, a real estate agent, is ...Read More »

Citysearch Brings Back Free Business Listings, Adds Twitter

{ Posted on Dec 06 2009 by admin }
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Free business listings are available again on Citysearch. That’s just one of the announcements Citysearch is making tonight, but it’s the one that’s drawn the most discussion and interest among readers of this blog. (You may recall the blog posts ...Read More »

Google Pulls Local Phone Numbers from Search Display

{ Posted on Nov 05 2009 by admin }
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It looks like Google is making more small changes to how its displays local search results — but these are small changes that might have a big impact on both local businesses and the users searching for them. Missing Phone Numbers ...Read More »
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