Mike The Internet Guy’s Blog

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 […]

While at the SES Local conference Dick Larkin introduced me to Gary Remy. Gary offers a great service called ListAndFound which for lets you manage and submit your local business listing to a ton of local directories and Internet Yellow Pages. Some of the directories included are Google Local, Yahoo Local, Superpages, Insider Pages, and […]

VFlyer.com launched publicy Monday a new service that enables individuals and small businesses to create and post  ’virtual flyers’ for typical classified ad material such as autos, vacation homes, rental property and more. I tried it out for our vacation rental condo in Breckenridge, and I really liked some of the features vFlyer supports. For […]

This session was more of an update on what each of the “local” search engines represent are up to currently. Participating search engines include Yahoo, Google, Windows Live, Local.com, and True Local. Below is a brief synopsis of what each engine had to say as well as some ‘takeaways’. As usual Chris Sherman was an […]

This session had highs and lows. As usually Google didn’t really reveal any ground breaking information rather they showed the latest features in the Google Local product such as coupons and the ability to add logos and icons to local listings. Windows Live discussed the some of the new abilities Local Advertisers have in Windows […]

This was a very good session. Greg Sterling was a fantastic moderator, Justin Sanger from local launch explained the high level opportunites, challenges and risks involved with local search. Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance dove deeper into tactics and helpful hints for local SEO and Paid search. Gib Olander from Localeze professed there are two types of local search: […]