Google’s “Best Ever Medal” – A Precursor to Google Checkin?
By: Rob Scutti - Posted January 3rd, 2011
If you’re keeping up with the newest buzz on the local scene, you’re already aware and probably active with “Checkins” at the places you favor with social sites such as Gowalla, Foursquare, loopt, BriteKite or Yelp. It’s really no surprise that Google has been eying this for months. So just when we’re ready to see…
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Nearly three weeks ago, Google debuted its latest search feature titled Google Instant. Lovers of instant gratification (like myself) were pretty excited and were soon hooked. The SEO community, however, was split into two camps: The “SEO is dead” group and the “Wait and See” group. There was lots of talk, lots of predictions, and…
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Regardless of what you have probably read or heard recently, manual directory submission backlink strategy can still be a good way to lay some solid links into your site’s profile, but you have to be smart about which directories you go out and associate your site with. When we’re doing SEO in Kansas City for our…
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There are infinite possibilities for your new brand name – but the most important action you want to take when choosing a name is not to choose one that gets lost in the sea of similar names. A LOT is weight is carried on your name: your company’s uniqueness among competitors is very much linked…
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I’ve been using or being bugged by “The Next” search engine called Aardvark for about six months now and didn’t even know Google had acquired it until i started writing this post. In theory an engine based on person-2-person communications could work, but you’ll need some controls to remove scammers, schemers, con-artists, recruiters, head hunters…
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Closers. No matter where you go, they’re seemingly inescapable. Lawyers have closing arguments, baseball games have closers come in for one last inning, businesses have last-minute sales to make everyone go on a shopping bonanza and on and on the closer goes. And *surprisingly* enough, local search listings have calling cards inside their business description…
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Even though it’s pure speculation at this point, since Conan O’Brien fled from NBC’s The Tonight Show, some analysts such as Nick Bilton have suggested he move his act onto the web. Sure, websites such as Hulu have clips of his previous shows, but Bilton`s suggestion does make sense for how much social media and…
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With Thanksgiving gone and the holiday buying season having bashed us square in the face this past week, I started thinking about how best a DIY shop owner can prepare and position themselves for the carnage this time of year brings. Thing is, I quickly realized that in regards to SEO, it’s essentially already too late to ponder such a question.
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Who knew how easy and beneficial the simple act of claiming your listing on Google’s Local Business Center was? Well, I guess I did.
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For those who may find Twitter’s interface, shall we say, lacking, there’s a simple and free solution that can make tapping into this most popular of microblogging sites a breeze.
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