Following Mike’s example of Google still showing oneboxes on SEO related terms (which they banished some time ago ) I found another example where google decides to put up the onebox. Considering the Guidelines for inclusion in Google Maps you might find this example particularly funny.
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. [...]
One of the most important things after you have registered your business is to know how much traffic this will get to your website. I’ve put up a very thorough tutorial on Mike Blumenthal’s blog and I suggest you all check it out.
I’ll put up a part here in this post to give you guys [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Spain is now the second country in Europe to have StreetView available, in 4 cities, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville. This was the announcement made yesterday on the Google LatLong blog. The first country to have StreetView available was France, soon after the Tour de France took place.
So now you will be able to view [...]
Google just released one of their most popular products, Google Earth, with over 400 million downloads for the iPhone! It’s a free download from the iTunes App store and it also features the My Location feature. Local Search information with Google Earth right on your iPhone! The iPhone seems to be a perfect device for [...]
