About 2 weeks ago Matt McGee at SmallBusinessSEM posted, The No. 1 Local Search Query is He found that in 11 cities, where he did some local search keyword analysis, Craigslist kept popping up. For example: New York new york hotels (34,349) craigslist new york (28,927) new york car insurance …

Having a marketing plan no matter where you are doing it (either on-line or off-line) is important. You simply just can “wing it” these days.  Hopefully through my posts here, you have gotten this message. If not, I found two articles that summarize it nicely. Kevin Stirtz, wrote a nice …

Sorry for the lack of posting this week. We went out of town for a family gathering and there was no Internet available to me. After I returned, I found a program I could to use to make my cellphone a modem for my laptop. Pretty cool, so I will …

When you have a website, you want to build and optimize it to rank as well as it can in the major search engines. Everyone wants to be on the first page. Whether is it global or local search, there are many techniques a webmaster can employee to accomplish this. …

The other day, I wrote about local directories here in Augusta, Ga  and in general on -line. One particular directory I mentioned was AugustaBiz. This is a local directory, created by local company that really knows what it is doing (design-wise, content-wise, marketing-wise, etc.) Well I am happy to announce, …

Link building is one of those things that needs to be on every webmaster’s to do list. It is a critical component to any online promotion campaign. The search engines love them and your visitors do too. Most non technical business owners agree with me when I explain linking and …

Many of my posts so far have come under the “social” category.  I am not surprised, but when I saw this article, Local and Social Media Are Joined at the Hip, by Greg Sterling, it just made sense. Greg really sums it up nicely and to be honest, I am …

One of the comments made about local search regularly is, “fragmented.”  In general I would agree. There seems to be a lot of competing programs, directories, theories, etc out there, but as time goes on and the market develops more, much of this should go away. (hopefully) One of the …

Sorry for the delay in writing this week-have been swamped with work. 🙂 Just wanted to bring to your attention a new article by Brian Wool The iPhone and Local Search . The iPhone represents how technology is changing how people do things and businesses need to be aware of …

Found a nice posting by Jennifer Laycock at Search Engine Guide, But What If They Say Something Bad?. I thought this was a nice followup on my posting: Thoughts regarding online reviews from June 22. Jennifer was asked that question and she responded “They’re going to say something bad about …