Local Search Tips: Hack Your Way to the Top
Ok, maybe “hack” is a bit strong, but small businesses can dramatically improve their ability to be found in their local area by doing a couple simple things.
Sign Up for Local Business Directories
There are a wide variety of local business directories that offer SMBs the opportunity to list their companies for free. Of course, the [...]
Phillies in World Series: Yankees Scared
As many may know, Dinkum Interactive is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, home of the World Series bound Phillies.
With tonight being Game # 1 of the World Series (baseball for our international readers) we couldn’t help but poke fun at our Northeastern neighbors.
Are the Yankees scared?
Who knows.
Let’s hope for some great baseball.
GO PHILLIES!
Bill Rowland
Twitter Geocoding: How Will It Help Your Business?
I’ve always been enamored with the use of location-aware services, like GPS. In my opinion, they will be a game-changer for small business. That’s why I was really interested to hear that Twitter will be adding geo-code information to Tweets.
What does this mean? Conceivably, businesses will now be able to focus on Twitter users in [...]
Google, Your ISP, and Search Implications
Recently, Google has placed more importance on your local IP address when producing natural search results for certain broad search terms. Google is showing a map and the top 10 local listings within the organic search results. You don’t have to add a city name or zip code to find local listings as before. Here’s [...]
Local Business Listings: Good for SEO, Good for Business
One of the best things about the internet is the ability to generate a big return on a modest investment. While there are many tools and services that can help smaller businesses compete with the big boys, one of the most impactful is registering a location-based business in local business directories like Google Local, Yahoo [...]
Yearning for Local Search
One of the biggest movers in search this past month was CitySquares.com which indicates that people really want more from local search which is getting pretty interesting. With so many of our clients strictly targeting the local marketplace, many have been having problems gaining traction online and services like Superpages.com and Yellowpages.com don’t come cheap…having [...]
Philadelphia or Phila online marketing
I was a speaker last week at the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce for 2 1/2 hours talking about Internet marketing as an overview. Most of you know I could talk 2 1/2 hours on most anything but this was challenging to cover at least on the surface many facets of a full Internet marketing [...]
Local Search growing pains, pains me.
I’m not sure if that’s the correct title or not, I ask myself whether or not “growing” should be included. I’m going to expand on a previous post on this blog that looked at Local Search and want to shed some light from both a user and an advertisers perspective.
I’ve been delving a little deeper [...]
Local Internet Search – The pages don’t get it YET!
Many blogs are written talking about more and more features being offered by the online pages – as I call them – SuperPages, YellowPages, etc… Like this fine blog today
They can offer all the features they want but I contend they are still missing the boat – by a mile. Most of the databases are [...]
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