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Tip: If You’re Asking for Yelp Reviews on Twitter, Don’t Tweet @Yelp 23 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to ask for reviews on Yelp. No ifs, ands, or buts. Do. Not. Do it. Yelp doesn’t want you saying or doing anything more than telling customers, “We’re on Yelp....
Google & Bing Are Handling My New Website Soooo Differently 14 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
Some of you may know that I recently launched a new hobby blog/website. It’s called Glass Almanac, and it’s all about Google Glass. The site launched back on July 6th, but in stealth mode. Then I did...
4 Things That Tend To Trigger Yelp’s Review Filter 31 Jul 2013 | 08:16 pm
Yesterday on Marketing Land, I wrote about a recent study of Yelp’s review filter and the things that tend to impact whether a review gets filtered or not. The results, I think, tend to confirm — or ...
Here’s a Great SEO Quote (from @TheGrok) 15 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
From Bryan Eisenberg in a recent post: In the near future, companies that will get great rankings won’t think of their websites and digital content as the center of the universe. They will think abou...
Local U Advanced: The Promo Video! 12 Jul 2013 | 08:59 pm
I’m really proud of this. The whole Local U team is really proud of this. With the great help of Spokane’s Mojo Labs, we now have a professional, four-minute promo video that introduces the Local U c...
SBSM Mailbag: How Best to Charge Small Businesses for SEO Services? 9 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
Kris recently sent in a good question about providing SEO services for small businesses; more specifically, about the business model and billing: I usually work on a monthly retainer-syle basis with ...
Local Search & Facebook: A Few Changes 9 Jul 2013 | 12:08 pm
An update to my previous post on what local search looks like in Facebook’s Graph Search: Facebook has started rolling out Graph Search fully to US users, and over the last six months, there’ve been ...
SMX East: Local, Content & SEO Diversity Sessions (What I’m Looking For) 4 Jul 2013 | 06:02 am
SMX East is coming up in a couple months (October 1-3 in NYC), but we’re already well underway with the planning. I’ll be moderating three sessions this time around, and since we’re accepting speakin...
I Wish I’d Written This Post 1 Jul 2013 | 10:50 pm
If you’re blogging and/or just producing content to market your business (and I certainly hope you are!), this post by Andy Sernovitz perfectly sums up what you want to be doing and why: Everything y...
Twilert (Twitter Alert Tool) Relaunches, But It’s Not Free Anymore 1 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
I mentioned a tool called Twilert a few months ago in a post I wrote about using Twitter as a listening station. It’s a great service that lets you setup Twitter alerts based on keywords, Twitter user...
