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Entries from January 2007

Does your web designer “do” SEO?

January 28th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Lee Odden has an brought an interesting issue to light in one of his latest blog posts. The issue at hand is client/web designer/SEO relations and responsibilities. I wanted to expand on Lee’s topic for a moment and discuss a few of my recent relationships with clients and their web designers.
Client #1 - a local […]

Tags: seo · website design

eTail 2007: A conference where local SEO will probably be discussed

January 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Josh, a friend of mine works for the company that puts on the eTail conference series. eTail 2007 is arriving soon so I thought I would mention it here for anyone who is interested in attending. I can’t make it this year but do plan to attend next year(as a speaker right Josh?). The conference […]

Tags: local seo · local search

SEO Friendly Flash

January 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments

6 different web designers have asked me about making Flash SEO friendly in the last month, so I’ll post some tips here. Most SEOs would agree that Flash is not really SEO friendly(yet). This is because all the content(text) is inside the flash movie and the spiders can’t read it or at least usually choose […]

Tags: seo

Google to sell Billboard Space like Adwords?

January 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I read an article a while ago about a guy (I think in Austin) who invented dynamic billboards where you could purchase space online and upload your ad. It looks like Google is up to something similar or maybe they bought out that I guy I am thinking of. Either way this could be a […]

Tags: small business · online marketing

Link Bait for a Local Business - you can’t get much better than this

January 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Pizza Patron has got the right idea. The restaurant chain announced this week they will accept Mexican Pesos as currency in their restaurants. Now if that doesn’t earn some links I don’t know what will. It is almost the “Perfect Storm” of link bait for a local business if you consider the current immigration debate, […]

Tags: local seo · local search · link building

Looking for Local Blogs?

January 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Simon over at Search Engine Tigers, pointed out an interesting new site called PlaceBlogger. Basically this site which just launched a few days ago I think, is a blog directory by location. There were actually a few blogs in the Denver blogs section that I hadn’t seen before that were pretty cool. One of them […]

Tags: local seo · link building

Thank you readers: Voted Best Local Search Blog of 2006 by SEJ

January 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

It is official, this blog has been voted ‘Best Local Search Blog of 2006′ by the readers of Search Engine Journal! Thanks to everyone who voted for me, but mostly thanks to my fellow local SEO bloggers who lend the inspiration for each article. I hope I can continue to live up to and improve […]

Tags: local search

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