Mike The Internet Guy’s Blog

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 […]

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 […]

Peter Krasilovsky has a great analysis on his blog about the current state of call tracking for internet marketing campaigns. One solution that I use for my clients currently is from Grand Central. Grand Central gives you a free local number and provides a wide array of call features and call tracking. Currently it is […]

Debra Mastaler of Alliance Link recently told me that adding an interactive map to your ‘local’ based website may be good idea since it is a big hint to the engine you are pulling from of where your business is located. Pretty important facts in a ‘local’ search optimization project. I did some research and […]

Rae Hoffman made a great post a few months back which outlines quite a few steps local businesses can take to market themselves on the internet. These are great instructions for the DIY local webmasters out there. On the otherhand if you want someone to do this for you, don’t forget to give Denver SEO […]

If you look at the results returned by Google on a query for ‘house cleaning in denver’ at the top of the ‘organic’ section you’ll see the Local Results. If you looks closely you can see they give a ‘distance number’ This distance is actually the business location’s distance from the center point of Denver. I am […]