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How Much Google Traffic Comes From Mobile Devices – A Quick Study
Avatar Story Found By: belasco99 663 Days ago
News Source: http://www.convertoffline.com
Category: Analytics
Awesome study of analyzing mobile traffic in Google Analytics. Excellent resource that a small business owner making the transition from yellow pages advertising could use to put mobile search in perspective Read more
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GMaps: What Happens When Google Loses a Town? They are hosed!
Avatar Story Found By: mblumenthal 697 Days ago
News Source: http://blumenthals.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
Google seems to have "misplaced" Rogers, MN. Thus no business or service in the town of Rogers can be found. Not the baker, the butcher, not the candlestick maker and certainly not the doctor. To say nothing of lost income there is a public safety… Read more
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10 Must Follow Local Search Experts on Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: SEOAddicted 751 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoaddicted.com
Category: SEO
The following is a listing of experts you must follow if you’re interested in local search. It contains a few of the usual targets, and also a small number of individuals who just truly have a capacity or gift for locating and commenting concerning… Read more
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Why The Renewed Interest In The Linkscape Lack Of Disclosure...?
Avatar Story Found By: mvandemar 751 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: SEO
What it was about the release of moz's Open Site Explorer tool that renewed interest about their honesty and intentions. Read more
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Google Now Showing Local Results for State Wide Searches
Avatar Story Found By: AlanBleiweiss 752 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Good article regarding Geo-Location factors that should be considered for reaching a wider target market than at the town or city level... Read more
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Your Business & Yelp In 2010
Avatar Story Found By: AlanBleiweiss 760 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
Matt Siltala lays out the key reasons why business owners need to get on board with the Yelp bandwagon in 2010 once and for all... Read more
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SEOmoz Decision Making Flowchart
Avatar Story Found By: Skitzzo 775 Days ago
News Source: http://skitzzo.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Having a bit of fun at the Mozzer's expense. Read more
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Google Maps Adds New “Report A Problem” Link for Business Listing Spam & Errors
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 778 Days ago
News Source: http://blumenthals.com
Category: SEO
Google has recently added a “Report A Problem” Link for reporting business Listing spam & errors from within Maps. The link is available via the business listing info bubble where once you select “Edit” you are presented with a “Report A… Read more
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The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List
Avatar Story Found By: steveplunkett 791 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty with another essential list on Search Engine Journal for Local Search. Read more
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Discover What Google Really Thinks Of Your Pages
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 812 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEO
Donna Fontenot (aka @DazzlinDonna) explains how you can get an idea of the scoring Google applies to your pages by analyzing their crawl frequency, introducing "CacheRank". She even recommends nice tools to get the job done, if you can't be bothered… Read more
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Introducing Sphinn’s New Editor, Matt McGee
Avatar Story Found By: evilgreenmonkey 804 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Please join me in welcoming Sphinn's new Editor, Matt McGee. Matt is a familiar face to Sphinn, having already served as a Moderator and now moving up to manage the site overall. Read more
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Breadcrumbs: Everything About Breadcrumbs & SEO
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 805 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
The first thing to do when analyzing how usable a site is should be to make sure people are able to easily find their way around no matter which page they first landed on. When it comes to huge websites, breadcrumbs can be a great way to help users… Read more
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Google Local Research Data Released For Free
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 803 Days ago
News Source: http://www.distilled.co.uk
Category: Vertical Search
Tom Critchlow digs into the local Google rankings for "Hotels in Seattle" and shares the data he found via a downloadable Excel spreadsheet or Google Docs file. It compares the number of citations, reviews, star ratings, etc., for the top 20… Read more
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Local Search Interview With David Mihm
Avatar Story Found By: dailymoolah 832 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shagunvatsa.com
Category: SEO
Shagun Vatsa interviews David Mihm, Local Search Expert extraordinaire on recent developments in local SEO, the changing face of IYP advertising, and business in general. Read more
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Using LiveChat to Build Links
Avatar Story Found By: Scottie 865 Days ago
News Source: http://www.linkspiel.com
Category: Link Building
Always looking for more links?  I bet you haven't considered using live chat to build links.  Debra Mastaler again outlines a creative, real-world example for suggesting links. Read more
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Big Boobs Bouncing Back when Map Spam Attacks
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 866 Days ago
News Source: http://blumenthals.com
Category: SEO
Ok before you roll your eyes and come after me for using the word "boobs in the title", read the article and hear me out. Google map spam is rampant and this article bring a good point to the table Read more
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Women of Internet Marketing: An Interview with Ayima's Jane Copland
Avatar Story Found By: KateMorris 894 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com
Category: SEO
An interesting look at the goings on of Jane Copland's life in London, post SEOmoz. :) Read more
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IYP SEO Rankings Report 2009
Avatar Story Found By: doncampbell 915 Days ago
News Source: http://www.localseoguide.com
Category: SEO
This is an outstanding rundown (I love original research!) of the Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) rankings, including the top 6 that you should make sure your business is included in. Read more
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How To Integrate Viral Marketing Into Your Small Business
Avatar Story Found By: 97thfloor 938 Days ago
News Source: http://primaryaffect.com
Category: Social Media
How local companies can implement simple social strategies to boost their brand recognition and overall exposure in the Engines. Read more
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NYTimes Journalist Uses SEO To Show Her Editorial Bias
Avatar Story Found By: andrewsho 943 Days ago
News Source: http://www.localseoguide.com
Category: SEO
I thought it was kind of strange that the NYT did not link to a spammer's website in an article about fake reviews but they did link to the site where the spammer wrote the fake reviews. Read more
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Google Pitches New Small Business Customers, Ignores Existing Ones
Avatar Story Found By: doncampbell 949 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Vertical Search
Google is hitting the streets of San Francisco next week — with at least one high-powered supporter in tow — to talk to small/local businesses about Google products and services. The event is called “Favorite Places,” and Google will have San… Read more
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It’s All About Local Organic Domination
Avatar Story Found By: davidmihm 955 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Hanan Lifshitz of Palore outlines a fantastic case study of a New Orleans chiropractor who has dominated the local search results with the help of some good old-fashioned Local SEO from Will Scott. Read more
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The Great Wall Of Google - A Short Essay On Communication--Local Business Owners Used and Abused by Google
Avatar Story Found By: earlpearl 965 Days ago
News Source: http://www.solaswebdesign.net
Category: Vertical Search
Miriam Ellis looks inside the Google Groups Forum for Maps and business owners and finds that Google is leaving the owners in the dark and problems and misinformation in Google Maps unanswered and unresolved.

The volume of frustrated… Read more
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Google Mapping Out Its Search Results
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 969 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Searching
From the page, Frank Watson says: Seems Google has gone crazy integrating its map application into the search results these days. At first it required a town reference to be included in the search words to invoke a mapped response, but now it seems any… Read more
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How to Twitter… Naked - Local Search News
Avatar Story Found By: DanPatterson 992 Days ago
News Source: http://www.localsearchnews.net
Category: Social Media
New Orleans’ own Naked Pizza (@NAKEDpizza) is changing the minds of experts and engaging its local community - using Twitter - in a profitable way. Naked Pizza is effectively using Twitter for communications, customer service and most importantly, new… Read more
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