Archive for December, 2009

Improve Google Local Listings through local SEO – local store marketing – part 2

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Recently we blogged about local SEO and local store marketing. There we talked about adding local listings to online service directories. In this installment, we’ll provide some specifics about improving the ranking of your Google local listing and visibility in map results for geographic searches. David Mihm has written an excellent report on local SEO. [...]

Google browser size and visibility tool

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Google Labs just rolled out a browser size tool to help you see how your website is seen by people with different screen sizes (more literally, browser winder sizes). This tool can tell you if an important elements of you page is showing up “above the fold” or if it remains hidden unless users scroll. [...]

Guest Article: Multilingual Marketing and the World Wide Web

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Multilingual Marketing and the World Wide Web A beginner’s guide to SEO and Localization Paul Sawers, Communications Executive, Lingo24 English may still be the dominant language in terms of content on the Web, but the majority of the world’s internet users’ first language isn’t English. And this disparity creates a rather lucrative opportunity for those seeking [...]

SEM bidding and traffic increase nonlinearity

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Even PPC campaigns that have an Impression Share (IS) of nearly 100% can get more traffic by increasing bids. What happens when you do so? Will doubling bids result in twice the traffic? No, and here’s why. If you increase your bids, your ads will show up higher and will get both more impressions and [...]

The end of Yelp?

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Over the last few months, Google has been rolling out new consumer services and features at an ever increasing rate. One of their latest additions, “Favorite Places on Google“, poses a direct threat to local business directory and review sites like Yelp. Yelp has grown exponentially since its launch in 2004 to become today’s titan [...]