2009 Local Search Ranking Factors
Local SEO consultant and Portland, OR web designer David Mihm has just published his second annual Local Search Ranking Factors Survey and for the second year running, Search Influence has been chosen to participate.
This is the definitive document on Local Search Ranking.
The study asked participants to rate 49 factors on their impact on Google and Yahoo Local’s universal search algorithms, calculating their positive or negative impact on ranking as well as the level of agreement the participants had on each issue. The following are some of the highlights of the survey:
Posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Social Media Club of New Orleans 1st Meeting
I’ve posted pictures online of the first meeting of the Social Media Club, New Orleans.
It was a good time and I’m hopeful to see it evolve into something worth doing.
More from the Social Media Club of New Orleans:
- Social Media Club New Orleans | Facebook
- Official Blog of New Orleans Social Media Club
- Social Media Club, New Orleans, on Twitter (in development apparently)
Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
I was reminded of this quote at least twice this week. Once by my CPA and once by my friend and Local Search Engine Optimization Expert, David Mihm
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr – http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/6696
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
delicious Links from Today 5/12/09
I have come to love delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us which I liked more.
For those of you not already familiar, delicious.com allows you to store all your bookmarks in one place organized by date with tags for secondary management.
I was very fortunate in my reading today, thanks mostly to my friends on twitter .
- Best Fits for Social Media in the Sales Cycle | chrisbrogan.com
- How To Optimize For Conversion In Organic Search Results
- 27 Twitter Applications Your Small Business Can Use Today | SMALL BUSINESS CEO
Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Twitter is a 1978 Fax Machine - Metcalfe's Law and The Twitter Nielsen Data
First things first: this post is a bit of inside baseball – it may be conceptually interesting but it likely won’t help you market your business.
Metcalfe's Law And The Network Effect
What’s interesting to me about the recent Nielsen data regarding “Twitter Quitters” is that it makes a prediction based on current data without looking at how this technology is like others before it. Surely Nielsen
doesn’t have data on adoption of all technologies since the beginning of time, but if they thought a little harder they might find some similarities. Or perhaps they just want the attention of controversy.
Posted on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
