This morning I received a blog post from Wordstream in my email. Wordstream is a search marketing company that provides Pay Per Click account management services and the information they provide, for the most part is very useful reading in a very noisy internet marketing world. By no means is this post to single them [...]
October 18, 2012 7 Comments
October 10, 2012 Leave a Comment
SEOmoz Discount from Mighty Deals – Expires Oct 17-2012
Anyone who is interested in search engine optimization and tracking your website’s stats for rankings and social media should check out SEOmoz. They’re currently running a deal over at MightyDeals.com that includes 3 months of basic service for $99.00. This is a 50% off deal and is a great way to get started and gives you enough [...]
October 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
The Death of SEO: Why SEO Will Never Die [INFOGRAPHIC]
I came across this infographic today and like it so much, that I thought I’d share it. The reason I like it so much is that I’ve actually met every person on this list, and can be blamed for actually being the people on this list at one or more times during my career. Enjoy! [...]
September 13, 2012 Leave a Comment
GoDaddy System Outage Apology #FAIL
On Monday, GoDaddy, whom we’ve all heard of had a serious outage of their service that took out millions of websites, including this blog and some other properties that I manage and host as a reseller for GoDaddy’s domains, hosting and other stuff. The outage didn’t really make me all that up-tight. In fact I [...]
September 4, 2012 5 Comments
Email Spam Tactics and What to Look For to Protect Yourself
This is not related at all to local SEO, but I received a spam email the other day from a fairly clever email spammer that I thought I’d write about. For the few minutes to write this post, I hope I can help at least a few people in the war against spam. Here’s a [...]
August 29, 2012 8 Comments
5 Minute Blog Post Optimization for Local SEO
One of my favourite follows for both local and non-local SEO is Matt McGee from the popular Small Business Search Marketing blog. Over the past couple of weeks, Matt has been writing a series of blogs related to SEO for small business blogs. The third instalment in the series is a very tightly written blog [...]
August 4, 2012 4 Comments
Continued Frustration with the Google+ Business / Local Places Merge and Lost Places Listing
It’s been almost 3 months since my wife’s flower shop listing in Google Places disappeared and we slowly but surely eliminated completely from existence in Google’s databases. During this time, the listing has gone through many different states including, pending review and we do not currently support that location. If you try to find the [...]
July 31, 2012 1 Comment
Two Webinars Today About SEO for E-Commerce
It seems to be a big day today for e-commerce and search engine optimization! There’s two webinars going on today from some trusted sources that anyone who is running an e-commerce website should probably have a look at. SEOmoz (Pro Members Only – Everett Sizemore, Director of SEO Strategy at seOverflow): E-Commerce SEO: Fix and [...]
July 25, 2012 1 Comment
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Google Search Quality Updates Affecting Local Search – May 2012
In May, Google announced 39 changes to their algorithm to improve search quality. Here’s my take on those that affect local search. Factors Affecting Local Search: Precise location option on tablet – Adds the personalized results based on location to tablets as an option. Improvements to local search on tablet – Easier to expand the [...]
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