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Howard Owens has some great coverage of the currently running Drilling Down on Local Conference. Today he posted some notes from Hillary Schneider’s (Yahoo Local) presentation on local search efforts:

Local search on the web has grown 28 percent over the past year. For Yahoo!, local search intent has risen from 11 percent of all Yahoo! […]

Frank Fuchs just posted this fantastic resource page containing direct links to the submission pages of quite a few Internet Yellow Page directories. I wrote about Piggy Back SEO for the do-it-yourselfer yesterday on the First Page Fitness Blog and pointed out that for the query ‘gym in denver’ 7 out of the top 10 […]

Matt McGee launched an NCAA Tournament Contest over on Yahoo Sports. It is free to join, so head on over. Matt has the information posted on his blog here: seo march madness.
Good Luck to all, even though I will tear you a new one in this contest
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UPDATE CHRIS S. FROM LINKEDIN REPLIED THE LINKS ON THE PUBLIC PROFILE ARE NOT REDIRECTED. THE REDIRECTS ONLY HAPPEN WHEN VIEWING A PROFILE INTERNALLY AS A MEMBER. THANKS CHRIS
Up until recently anyone with a LinkedIn profile had an ability to create a few “free” anchor text rich links back to any websites of your choosing. […]

As far as buying links goes, $20 for a link for a ‘lifetime’ on a decent site in your ‘theme’ seems like a pretty good deal! Well that is exactly what the folks over at V7N’s contextual link program offer. I don’t typically buy links through brokers, but here is a quick list of what […]