Search Engines, Directories

How To Dominate Page One of Google So Your Competitors Don’t Stand a Chance – Part I

Today and tomorrow we have a guest author -Tim Conley from LocalMarketingMastery.com (Thanks for the article Tim.) What if there was a way for you to get more than the average 50+% of visitors from a number one Google ranking? I don’t know about you, but I really dislike paying a lot of money to [...]

Some Product Updates

Got some info about a couple updates, that I wanted to pass on. 1. MerchantCircle launches: Neighbors “Neighbors enables consumers to “follow” local businesses for the latest promotions, coupons and announcements.  Business owners can use the Neighbors “feed” as an easy way to communicate directly with their customer base and share information on new products, [...]

Recommended Reading from Mike Belasco

About a month or so ago, my good friend Mike Belasco of seOverflow published a series of articles on Google Analytics for Local Search. These article are jam packed with excellent info for those wanting to know more about local search and analytics. Here are the links to those posts. Thanks Mike! Google Analytics For [...]

Web.com and MerchantCircle Expand Partnership

Got some info today from Kevin over a MerchantCircle. Web.com and MerchantCircle are expanding their partnership.  From the press release: In addition to MerchantCircle’s suite of easy-to-use online publishing services, MerchantCircle’s local business members will have access to Web.com-powered marketing products and services designed to help them successfully market their businesses online. Participating merchants will [...]

Local City-Specific Biz Coupons Through Twitter

Got a press release from Kevin Leu at MerchantCircle today about Merchant Circle now providing coupons via Twitter pages…very interesting. From the press release/blog: To further increase local business exposure online, MerchantCircle also announces the first-ever local city coupon Twitter feed. Merchant-built coupons are now automatically fed to city-specific Twitter feeds, so that local consumers [...]

YellowSpaces-a new local search engine

If you have spent anytime reading the search engine marketing blogs or tweets, you undoubtedly have heard of YellowSpaces- a new local search engine that recently went live. Greg Sterling had a nice post/interview on the site. Well, Constantin S. Manta, the man behind this site,  was gracious to give me some time for this [...]

Local Twitter Tools and Sites

With all of this talk about Twitter, what are some the sites or tools you can use for Twitter, specifically local related tweets?  (the descriptions come from the respective websites) TwitterHawk “TwitterHawk is a real time targeted marketing engine that will find people talking on twitter now by your chosen topic and location, allowing you [...]