Mike The Internet Guy’s Blog

I set up a FeedBurner account a while ago, but never got around to actively ‘burning’ my feed. Basically I will now be able to view more statistics about who is subscribing, which posts are popular etc. It was pretty easy to do. Feedburner itself was a breeze to set up and then I installed […]

As this year is coming to a close I thought I would recap what I thought were the best blog posts and articles on local search engine optimization in 2006. 2007, should be a big year for local SEO. The search engines and search engine optimizers are really ramping up to meet the demand of […]

Once again Mike Blumenthal has given business owners some food for thought in his latest quest to uncover hints for high rankings in Google Maps. In his latest research Mike has demonstrated that ‘links’ to “local websites” , don’t even really need a live link pointing to your business website to get some bang for […]

I am honored to have my blog on the ballot for “Best Local Search Blog of 2006″ at Search Engine Journal’s Best Search Blogs Poll. If you feel like, please click on over and cast your vote for the best search blogs in a variety of categories. I don’t expect to win this year as […]

So there is a game of ‘blog tag’ happening right now. I was tagged yesterday by my favorite Hawaii SEO, Dave. Anywho as I have now been tagged, I am obligated to share five things about myself, you may not know. So here it goes
5 Things you may not know about Mike Belasco

My grandfather while […]

Bill Slawski posted an excellent summary of a new patent application from Google which discusses how an SE ranks websites for a ‘local’ search. My lesson from this patent is that the center point method of calculating proximity in local search may now be obsolete. The new method which appears to be highly reliant […]