Now this is just my observations. Feel free to correct me. Also, if you are in another part of the US (i.e. Mid-west, West Coast, etc) let me know your observations on how local search marketing is being used in your area(s). My thoughts are broken down like this: North …

On day we worked through Boston and saw the historical sites. We passed so many awesome looking restaurants, cafes, bars etc, but where did we end up for lunch? Across the street, (visible in the photo) is the famous Quincy Market.  So close, yet so far!  The kids had fun …

Well I am back from driving over 2000 miles total (GA to MA and back).  I was nice to get out of town but it always good to come back home. As I traveled around I did a lot of thinking and observing of local search marketing. Do you know …

I want to thank Stuart Livesey for this guest article. Stuart and Toni Livesey operate Copy Text Online a small web design and text business in Hervey Bay Queensland.  They also run Small Office, Home Office Information , a blog where they share their extensive experiences of the highs and …

Just to let everyone know-I am on vacation this week, so my posting will be light. As I travel, I am looking around at local search marketing. I will have some interesting insights  and comments when I get back home. I will have a guest article tomorrow. For those in …

The last component I want to talk about is linking. Link building is a critical component to any website promotional campaign. Years ago when I started online, linking was just beginning to get going. Now linking is a big business but there is also a lot more abuse in linking. …

Yesterday I spoke about your website and used Stoney’s ebook as a resource you can pick up to get all the specifics.  To summarize though-your website needs to be built to succeed. You need to plan or deal with such things as: domain name content types of pages to have …

A lot has changed in online marketing since I put together my first website, back in the mid 1990s. The days of simply putting up a webpage(s) online, getting some links, and submitting it to the search engines are long gone. It takes alot more for a website to be …

Just a quick note today. Check out this  great followup to my last post. It is by Greg Howlett at Marketing Pilgram, Four Things You Should Know About Collecting User Reviews. Greg reviews a presentation that was recently given about how online reviews have impacted sales at JC Whitney, the …

In a previous article, I talked about online reviews and a study that found the #1 thing folks did online monthly was reading customer ratings and reviews.  It is clear that social media, such as online reviews play a very important and influential part of today’s Web. A recent article …