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GoDaddy brings down Brownbook for 2 days 14 Jul 2011 | 09:36 am
Apologies loyal users of Brownbook. We suffered a 2 day outage because GoDaddy (who host the DNS, not the site) removed our DNS therefore making the site inaccessible. There was no warning, totally ou...
Thanks for the recognition from Local Search expert Chris Silver Smith 17 Sep 2010 | 08:22 am
Always nice to get a little recognition: Sept 13, 2010 - Chris Silver Smith: Who Will Own Local Data? Search Engines, Yellow Pages, Aggregators Or Social Media? Thanks Chris, one day we MUST catch u...
Richer Business Profile Pages get more traffic and clicks [stats] 15 Sep 2010 | 06:04 am
We did a little analysis this week, intended for some internal purposes but the results are so interesting that I thought I’d share them with you. Business Pages with more content get more views and ...
Brownbook in top 100 startups 28 Aug 2010 | 10:48 am
We like this… Brownbook listed at position 34 in the Startups.co.uk top 100 startups: http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842908650112835/34-brownbook-startups-100.html Thank you Sara. Startups.co.uk is a...
The FOUR simple tricks to NOT screw up your shiny new SEO 17 Aug 2010 | 06:36 am
Good SEO does this Brownbook business listings give you great organic SEO, helping your business get found more on search engines. But DID YOU KNOW you can mess that up with a few well-meaning faux-p...
Brownbook’s decision not to use nofollow links is appreciated by search engine marketers 12 Jun 2010 | 01:39 am
In response to Andrew Shotland’s revealing post “SuperPages New Profile Pages Not Doing Advertisers Any SEO Favors” on Local SEO Guide (Local Search Engine Optimization & Marketing Made Simple), these...
Webmasters – please tell me what you think… 13 May 2010 | 09:24 am
(… and I will credit you with a link back in the resultant blog post!) – see my contact details at the end of this post An open invitation to webmasters and owners of the following types of websites:...
Brownbook SCRUM hit at ICMA conference 12 May 2010 | 11:47 pm
I spoke at the ICMA Conference (Classifieds EVOLVE or die) in Berlin last week. It all went very well and I was very pleased with the interaction, question and feedback, but when you speak, you never ...
Brownbook Optimization Report #4 – May 10, 2010 11 May 2010 | 06:30 am
Hi Brownbook gives you free resources to promote your business online and get found more in search results. Here are more top tips and simple tricks to optimise your Brownbook Business Page to get fo...
Brownbook hits 34million business listings [feature in Techcrunch] 19 Mar 2010 | 02:46 am
We’re pleased to announce that Brownbook now lists over 34 MILLION businesses in over 240 countries. Founder Marc Lyne was recently interviewed by global tech news powerhouse TechCrunch about the si...
