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Today I am catching up with Darby Sieben, of Darby Sieben - Internet Marketing and YellowPages.ca. In the past, I wrote about local search over in Europe and Poland, so I thought we would see what is happening in Canada.
Q. Darby, can you our readeers a little about yourself?
A. I am a 14-year veteran in the Internet [...]
The conclusion of our interview with Jay Mallinckrodt of Yokld.com
Q. How are businesses added to the system? via individuals? via on-line databases?
A. Any business can be added by any member of the Yokld user community at any time. At this point we have opted not to purchase a local database since we want the content [...]
Today I am speaking with Jay Mallinckrodt from Yokld.com.
Q. What is Yokld.com?
A. Yokld is a “Best Of” local business ranking social platform that is 100% compiled and commented on by users. The idea is simple - the more times a business gets “Yokl’d” (voted for) the higher in the rankings it will be listed.
Q. How [...]
Now for the exciting conclusion of my interview with Paul O’Brien of Zvents.
Q. The Zvents website also mentions that one can add Zvents to their website - can you explain this?
A. Certainly. One could consider using the Media Platform though that is really the right solution for major publishers. Smaller websites and blogs can add everything from [...]
Local SEO with Event Promotion by Paul O’Brien is a very interesting articles talking about how local busines can use local events to promote and advertise their own business. This is not a new concept but Zvents, now gives the local small business a way to do it on-line.
“Zvents is the local search engine for discovering [...]
ShowMeLocal.com Interview (continued)
Q. Tell me about your Facebook and your other applications.
A. This week we have released the Business Space application that allows business owners to integrate their blogs, coupons, specials and job posts with local Facebook Pages. Business owners will be able to control what type of information to put on the page and have [...]
ShowMeLocal.com is one of the better websites/directories where local business can create an online profile and promote themselves. I came across the site when I did my post of local search in Facebook. They had a local search application, so I clicked over their website, did some review, and then contacted them about doing this interview.
ShowMeLocal [...]
