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WordCamp New Orleans – Speaking on WordPress SEO
I spent the last 2 days at a fantastic conference — the kind we need more of around here — WordCamp NOLA. Day 1 was a bit of a Social Media day, more introduction than implementation. Day 2 was, if I do say so myself, much more full of actionable …
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1000 Locksmiths in New York City
My friend Matt McGee sent an email last night in which he discovered a new feature of Google Maps. This makes for some very interesting results: Restaurants New Orleans David Mihm The Lazarus Project psp ‘s favorite: Locksmiths in New York City The Mission rip Notorious psp Must be a …
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NOMMUG Learns The Dark Secrets of SEO Voodoo
I have been meeting a bunch of great local people thanks to my association with our local Net Squared group Net2NO . (update: in town? come out tomorrow night: http://netsquared.meetup.com/27/) And one of them, David Robinson , who heads the local Adobe Multimedia Users Group asked me to speak to …
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Is Your Competition Winning in The Customer Engagement Cycle?
Holy cow it’s taken me a long time to write this! But that’s good news because I’ve been adding to my own understanding in the meantime. I have been intending to post on this since before my friend Chris Schultz wrote his “10 Tips for Launching Your Startup” in which …
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Barnacle SEO Hits The Big Time
I’m proud to announce that I have been asked to take part in a new Local Search News site http://www.localsearchnews.net/ (note: Local Search News is dead and we’ve moved the Barnacle SEO post to the Search Influence blog. And, my first post is live! In this post I argue that with …
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Will Scott Featured in Mike Blumenthal’s Loci 2008
I’ve been so busy with the turn of the year that I forgot to mention that I had a rare opportunity to contribute to Mike Blumenthal’s Loci 2008. For those of you who don’t know, Mike is THE authority on Google Maps and Local. I’m very proud to have been …
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YPA Blog – File Under D
The Yellow Pages Association has launched a blog . I added it to my feed reader under Local Search. I put it there because I don’t have a category for Dinosaur or Dead Trees or Dying industry 🙂 I kid — I think the Yellow Pages has 5-10 years of …
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Authority, Trust and Yellow Pages Advertising
Trust: to have confidence or faith in Authority: the power or right to give orders or make decisions Yellow Pages: a telephone directory listing businesses by category Often as Search Marketers we use words which have been redefined by our industry without thinking about how they’ll be understood by customers. …
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Online PR – Making A Positive Contribution
My friend, and a very smart local entrepreneur, Chris Schultz wrote an interesting piece entitled 10 Tips for Launching Your Startup in which he makes a pretty bold statement relative to PR (that’s public relations, not PageRank, for you search geeks). There are a ton of other great posts on …
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Revised Website Design Thanks To All Your Input
Updated after another day of marathon editing by Aimee: Wow! Talk about some great feedback! Thanks to everyone’s input we already have an updated theme incorporating all that feedback. Please feel free to reference the original (and of course the comments). I’m feeling pretty good about the current design. I …
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