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 [...]

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 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 suggestions with [...]

Like Greg Sterling already said, nothing practical here, just fun&joy.
It’s a nice service provided by the guys at wordle.

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 business center maps [...]

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 wrote [...]

Most of you in the Local SEO business have probably heard of KML, but consider it a buzzword, Chinese or something they don’t want to get their hands dirty on.
But what is KML and how can it help you in your local SEO strategy? Recently Eric Enge from StoneTemple consulting interviewed Google’s Director of product [...]

After reading the official Google blog today I can say that it has been confirmed (at least by my free interpretation ), Amit Singhal, in charge of the ranking team at Google stated:
Today, I would like to briefly share the philosophies behind Google ranking:
1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No [...]

David Mihm compiled an excellent article in collaboration with some SEO guys who are particularly interested in the local search optimization.
We see highlights of the most important ranking factors, and also those that might harm your rankings. Must read for small businesses and anyone doing local optimization.
Although this article is quite focussed on the US [...]

My blog about Local Search Optimization is about to kick off – this is the first post. No surprise there!
But anyway, here I will be writing about Local Search Optimization, Universal Search, mapping services, Local Business Ads and perhaps some more SEO or online marketing related items.
Please feel free to wander around this blog, [...]