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 [...]
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Yelp coming to UK, rest of Europe next?
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 [...]
Local Search Citation Sources for Europe
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 [...]
Local Search will bring you in the year of 2009…
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 [...]
Changing Location
Communications Tower, Torre Telefónica, Barcelona, Spain Hola, all readers out there. Some of you already know that I moved back to the Netherlands but I wanted it to be official Barcelona is where I have spent the last 10 months of my life and it is actually the location where I decided to start this [...]
Slideshare as a citation source
Some of us might know Slideshare, the online platform where you can store your presentation slides to share with the rest of the world. It appears that this website is a valuable source for local citation building. The real value, or the amount of it that might affect your ranking could vary. If your presentation [...]
Google suggest fails on Google philosophy
Google just introduced their Google suggest feature on all search engines. Although I find this feature helpful and promising, it doesn’t follow their philosophy: 1) Best locally relevant results served globally. I tried some keyword searches and noticed how often Google suggest tries to give you local results. Almost each (local) search will give you [...]
martijnbeijk.com visualized
Like Greg Sterling already said, nothing practical here, just fun&joy. It’s a nice service provided by the guys at wordle.
Local SEO in Travel
Yesterday I was reading the Google Maps help groups for business owners, and a question was raised if it was Okay with Google to submit (self contained) accommodations to the Local Business Center. we’re an accommodation provider with over 150 self contained holiday listings. We’d like each of these properties to appear on the local [...]
The conference I missed..
The conference I missed was SMX Local / Mobile. Too bad I’m ‘stuck’ here down in Europe, because I would have liked to meet some fellow local search enthusiasts in person. Well, Maybe next year. Luckily, for me, and all of you that were not there, there is some good reading material online. David Mihm [...]
About Martijn
I'm Martijn Beijk, Digital Analytix Consultant with comScore. In my sparetime I specialize in Local Search.
My enthusiasm lays in Local & Mobile, including location-based services, context-awareness, semantic web and things as such.
Want to get in touch or hire me? contact me by mail or at Twitter: @martijnbeijk
