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Google Pulls Local Phone Numbers from Search Display - 3 days ago
Update, 11:45 am: After emailing Google to ask why the phone numbers have been removed, a Google spokesperson replied back saying it was a bug:“For a few hours this morning phone numbers were not displayed as part of local universal search results.. Topics: Google
New Google Local Listing Guidelines - 4 days ago
Google has published a new set of guidelines for local businesses using the Local Business Center — guidelines that continue to get more specific to counter the very specific ways small businesses spammers try to bend or completely get around the...
Walking the Local Search Walk - 6 days ago
My wife went on a kitchen cleaning binge yesterday. When I came home from some errand-running, three yellow pages books were sitting on my office desk. So I asked what’s up.“You’re the local SEO guy,” she said. “Do we even...
October ‘09: Best Search/Marketing Posts - 7 days ago
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during September and October. (I’m combining the two months because I spent much of September traveling.) If you’re new to this blog, this is a monthly feature that... Topics: 2009 Best Posts
Meeting the Press, Talking SEO - 12 days ago
That How to Get Started with SEO post that I published last week has a little backstory: It was inspired by a series of interviews I’ve done lately about SEO with members of the press. Each interview was about SEO and small businesses, and in each.. Topics: Interviews, SEO





































