Mike The Internet Guy’s Blog

My good friends over at eLocal Listing announced yesterday they will be offering video inside in their local business profile product. The “custom” videos will also be submitted to various video sites such as YouTube, Yahoo Video, etc. You can see the various business profiles eLocal creates on their site eLocalProfiles.com
Due to the somewhat recent […]

Many new SEOs will learn at the beginning that keyword research is the corner stone of every SEO project. I of course would not argue with this fact. In addition most new SEOs go on to learn that keyword research means depending on and using major keyword databases such as Keyword Discovery and Wordtracker. Again […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]