Posts Tagged ‘small-business’

Welcome SearchFest Attendees

{ Posted on Mar 09 2010 by admin }
If you’re reading this while at SearchFest 2010, a big welcome to you. Thanks for visiting SmallBusinessSEM.com. In my presentation, I mention a few web sites that you may not have had time to jot down while I was speaking. ...Read More »

SEO Benefits of Blogging: More Search Traffic

{ Posted on Mar 01 2010 by admin }
It’s sometimes hard to imagine or even quantify the specific SEO benefits of a business blog, but credit the gang at HubSpot for doing a good job of it. If you missed their blog post from a few weeks ago, ...Read More »

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

{ Posted on Feb 08 2010 by admin }
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 »

Looking back at GetListed Local University Spokane

{ Posted on Feb 07 2010 by admin }
“Fantastic.” “Really great.” “Excellent.” “Very helpful.” Those are the short versions of the feedback I received from speaking with four attendees after last week’s GetListed.org Local University Spokane seminars. And I feel the same way. It was an excellent day of ...Read More »

2010 SEMMY Finalists Announced

{ Posted on Jan 25 2010 by admin }
Finalists for the 2010 SEMMY Awards were announced this morning on www.semmys.org. Thanks to the 20+ judges who gave their time and energy to reading the nominees and selecting the articles that would make the finals. Public voting is open now ...Read More »

Inc. Magazine Goes Deep on Yelp

{ Posted on Jan 19 2010 by admin }
Inc. Magazine has written what’s probably the deepest article/profile of Yelp that I’ve ever read. It touches all the points you’ve probably read before — how small business owners struggle with its power, how they struggle to deal with poor ...Read More »

Web Self-Help for Small Business

{ Posted on Jan 18 2010 by admin }
While in his Late 20s, Benjamin Franklin came up with a list of 13 virtues, which he thought were areas in his life where he could improve. He wrote these virtues down in a book and kept notes on ...Read More »

SBS Flashback: January 2009

{ Posted on Jan 17 2010 by admin }
For those of you who are new SBSM readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month to introduce new readers to ...Read More »

Alerts on Place Pages? I Want More From Google

{ Posted on Jan 14 2010 by admin }
Here’s the latest addition to Google’s Local Business Center: a tool to add alerts/updates to your Google Maps Place Page. The widget you see here is only available to businesses that have claimed their listing in the Local Business Center; ...Read More »

Teaching at GetListed Local University

{ Posted on Jan 11 2010 by admin }
If you live in Eastern Washington, consider yourself invited to the first GetListed.org Local University event. It’s happening February 4th in Spokane, with two identical half-day seminars planned to teach small businesses how to increase visibility and do better business ...Read More »