Small Business SEM (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Mike Blumenthal: Google Maps: Six reasons why your listing might “go South” & some tips to cope Chris Silver Smith/SEL: Google Custom Maps: A Goldmine For Local Businesses David Mihm/SEL: Be Wary Of Call Tracking Numbers In Local Search Mike Blumenthal: Google Answers Some Local Listing Ad Questions SEO Victor Murygun/10e20: 10 Simple (but Important) Things to Check Before Optimizing...
Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
One of the neat things about being a small business owner is how creative you can be in your marketing efforts. Earlier this week, local search expert Chris Silver Smith shared yet another long tail search opportunity for SMB owners using Google Custom Maps to try and attract new eyeballs. And it’s actually kind of fun! A few years ago, Google introduced My Maps , which allowed...
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
This morning Chris Silver Smith spins out a more elaborate discussion of a topic he presented at SMX East: how to use Google MyMaps for local SEO: There are all sorts of useful custom maps that one could provide about local areas. Companies which develop value-add information maps about local areas could easily reap the benefit [...]
Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
... , noted that the Google robots.txt shows a nofollow for Places: Disallow: /places/ . Technologist Chris Silver Smith though pointed out on Twitter that a no follow in the “robots.txt doesnt mean Google wont index a page- only that they wont crawl it. Link 2 profile = it’s indexed”. And indexed these pages are. If you search on the Burdick Chocolate Cafe Boston , an example that Google...
