Posts Tagged ‘smallbusiness’

Working on a new look

{ Posted on Mar 21 2010 by admin }
As you can tell, I’m messing with themes and design and CSS and layouts and all that stuff I stopped doing professionally several years ago. I’m about 75% finished, so this is very much a work-in-progress. If you notice anything ...Read More »

GetListed Local University coming to Minneapolis – St. Paul

{ Posted on Mar 19 2010 by admin }
If you live in or near the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, area, consider yourself invited to the second GetListed.org Local University event. It’s happening May 13th in Edina, with two identical half-day seminars planned to teach small businesses how to increase ...Read More »

Google is Crawling Foursquare for Local Citations (but not GoWalla)

{ Posted on Mar 19 2010 by admin }
Thanks to a good question on Twitter from John McPhee, I discovered this week that Google is crawling business profiles on Foursquare and using them as citations in Google Maps. They’re not, however, crawling Gowalla business profiles. More on that ...Read More »

SBS Flashback: March 2009

{ Posted on Mar 18 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 »

Bad SEO Advice for Real Estate Agents … from the NAR

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by admin }
It’s bad enough when vendors offer real estate SEO services and/or advice that isn’t worth a dime … but what about when the national organization that’s supposed to support real estate agents starts spreading around misinformation to its members? The ...Read More »

U2 Validates Benefits of SEO

{ Posted on Mar 11 2010 by admin }
My worlds are colliding. I mean my “U2 world” and my “SEO world.” I try to keep them separate, but this story makes that impossible. Check it out on the Somerset County Gazette web site. Apparently, a local/small business owner recently ...Read More »

Welcome SMX West Attendees

{ Posted on Mar 03 2010 by admin }
If you’re reading this while at SMX West, a big welcome to you. Thanks for visiting SmallBusinessSEM.com. In my presentation, I mention a half-dozen 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 »

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

{ Posted on Feb 08 2010 by admin }
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 }
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 »