MiriamEllis

Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
The rounded, full-service orange that is YP and the zestier tangerine that is Google...a local search practitioner rebuts her own complaints about Google's Local Search offerings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Link Building
How my socio-political blog got wonderful links while I was too busy writing to think about link acquisition. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
What started out as a simple question on my blog has ended up yielding some really unique and cool tips from readers for what to do when kw research is returning zeros. I've learned a lot from this discussion. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
While the title of this post may seem obvious to you, it isn't to the Canoe Guy who doesn't get it that his Adwords spend doesn't = preferential treatment in Maps. Evidence of a serious disconnect between Maps and SMBs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
Meet Will Scott of Search Influence, a company with some serious Local SEO experience across the U.S. You are sure to learn something new about Local from this interview. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
Covert Offline has hosted some of the most interesting and in-depth discussions in Local Search over the past few months. Meet the man behind this lively local blog. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
Part II in my series of interviews with Local SEOs. Meet David Mihm whose hands-on work with local clients yields tips and thoughts you don't want to miss! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
Today, I'm chatting with Local SEO, Mike Blumenthal about important local search issues as Part I of my series of Interviews with 5 Local SEOs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Water Cooler
Mike Blumenthal's scholarly blog serves up a most unexpected 404 error page. This cracked me up. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Water Cooler
I've been getting some really nice feedback on the portrait I drew last night using my exciting new copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3. I thought the Sphinners might like to take a look at it for some weekend fun. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Google SEO
Finding your web design firm being outranked locally by a florist, a bus driver and a construction company can be a strange but amusing experience. This article is just for a little laugh at Google's algo. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Google
The numbers don't add up. Google ignoring own reviews in the stats it's presenting to users. Read article to see images of this peculiar discrepancy. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Local & Maps
A top ranked local hotel listed in Google Maps burned down a year ago. Slow-pouring syrup is great, but lagging local results represent a real communication problem between local businesses and Google. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Water Cooler
Do you see what I see? Features linked examples of 9 common design mistakes and will be useful as an outside reference in explaining these prevalent errors to clients. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 241 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Water Cooler
For 60's, 70's and 80's kids, this is an inspirational post about eliciting the 'oh wow!!!' response you want from the public. Includes very cool video! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Water Cooler
Just for Friday fun, I wrote this post from under a heap of Vermont Country Store catalogs. What do Sphinners think of this company's print marketing plan? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 266 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Greetings, Sphinners,

I have watched, with interest, the use of the down vote on Sphinn comments on submissions like this:

http://sphinn.com/story/11830

In the above, user, Corey, says his comment was downvoted so much it disappeared. This read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Google
A summary of recent TBPR events for small business owners, and encouragement to follow the big guys' PR coverage, even if it doesn't appear to directly affect the small business today. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 282 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Google AdSense
Is it pointless to run Adsense on a green blog? The results indicate the answer to this is yes. Your suggestions and input requested on this weird dilemma. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 290 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Google Other
I was disheartened to read a news story about a 54 year old Google Manager being fired and suing Google for age discrimination. According to the story, ex-Googler Brian Reid was told that his ideas were “obsolete and too old to matter.” read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 304 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Hi Everybody.First, let me say, 'duh' for myself for never noticing until just now that I have an inbox on Sphinn. I suddenly noticed it, opened it and saw I had 2 messages from another Sphinner.  When I attempted to respond to these messa read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 313 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The world of SEO went all smiling a few days ago with 97th Floor publishing their Social Media for Firefox extension. I think it’s a great idea; Chris thinks so too, and SEOMoz are terribly excited by it. But it’s spying on us. Let me explain. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 314 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Greetings Sphinners,
I registered with Sphinn when it launched, and excitement in the forums I belong to led to myself and the folks I know in these forums stalking and befriending one another here at Sphinn. In the beginning, I 'knew' all of my fr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Water Cooler
Just as it grieves SEOs to see themselves lumped in with charlatans who submit sites to 5000 search engines, it grieves web designers when folks assume we're clueless about SEO and Usability and think Flash is king. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MiriamEllis 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.solaswebdesign.net)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I'm buzzing with excitement tonight from seeing my work featured in an off-line magazine. We take online publishing as a matter of course these days, but I'm happy as a clam to be seeing my efforts on a printed, glossy page! read more »
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