Mike The Internet Guy’s Blog

Last year it was SES Local, this time it is the SMX Local and Mobile conference. Denver has gotten lucky again for being able to host a local search conference. This one will be programmed by Chris Sherman and Greg Sterling who both participated in last years SES Local conference. I went to SES local […]

So everyone and their mother is now giving out local SEO advice about getting listed in the local search engines/internet yellow pages. Recently articles were published on Entrepreneur.com and MSNBC which both of course suggested getting listed in these local directories including Google Maps. Sound advice indeed.
So finally when I have time to start […]

Most local SEO tips are written about what you “should” do to your website to optimize it for local search. This post is about one thing that you should not to do. Most SEOs would take this advice for granted, but I have run into two “local” businesses in the last month who have bought […]

Over the next 5 days Graywolf will be conducting 20 local search related interviews. When looking at the list of folks to be interviewed, this is a must read series for people interested in local search. The first four interviews have already been posted and include some SEO Celebrities such as Aaron Wall. It was […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]