I have been talking on WMR about KML and Sitemaps. The show is mainly about using KML for Local SEO and citations.
OK – it has been almost two weeks ago, but I wanted to share this for the people who missed out. I got the opportunity to talk in the radio show SEO 1on1 on [...]
Yes! Finally, almost half of the Netherlands is now covered in Street View, including some parts of the city where I live, Zwolle. This is what the LatLong blog reported yesterday. More Street View cities have become available in the Netherlands and Spain. Apart from that Google also announced that Street View imagery is now [...]
For those of you that are interested, or have been listening to the show on Webmaster Radio SEO 101. I’ve included the presentation:
Smx Stockholm Local Search Boat Company Lovers – Martijn Beijk & Jaap Dijkstra
This year I will be attending and speaking at SMX Stockholm. There you will find me presenting a Local Search business case with one of our clients; Boat Company Lovers. My fellow speaker will be Jaap Dijkstra, Business Developer at Boat company Lovers – one of the leading companies organizing Canal Cruises in Amsterdam. Some of [...]
David Mihm has been showing off his whiteboard skills over at SEOmoz whiteboard friday. I really want to share these 2 video’s with my readers.
The first video is about Local Search Inclusion:
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Local Search Inclusion with David Mihm
The second video is about SEO for Local Search
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – SEO for [...]
This must be one of the biggest pieces for Local Search to read on this year (like last year). David Mihm published its Volume 2 of the Local Search Ranking Factors.
The general idea of the Local Search Ranking Factors is to give business owners a chance in understanding the things that matter to Local SEO. [...]
Blogger now supports Geotagging.
Wanted to share this one as it is an approach to make everything more local and apply some metadata to information on the web, trying to structure it. One of the important things of the semantic web; structured information.
They even made it easy for you; enter your location or browse the map, [...]
Yelp, one of the biggest review sites in US is coming to the UK. Hopefully rest of Europe will be next, but will they be able to gain ground? Qype, touchlocal and some other more local oriented players already have quite a strong user base so will Yelp be able to set foot into this [...]
David Mihm, already wrote about citation sources for Local SEO. These citations can help you in your efforts to get better rankings in the SERPS. David contacted me about the guide to international citations he planned to publish and I was happy to do some research in this issue. With a special focus on the [...]
The following!
With each new year, people start creating lists. Things to do, things not to do. Well, here is mine for the year of 2009.
more collaborated research
more in-depth local SEO tactics
A new template design
Wordpress Plugin(s)
Update(s) to my tutorial: KML for Local SEO
Street View Europe
Local Citation Sources Europe
Store Locators
Targeting mobile
more….
Luckily, the thing about lists is [...]


