Okay, I’m back and all caught up from a quick 2 day trip down to Ellicottville, NY for the GetListed Local University workshops – and I’m pumped full of new information, eh!

Yes, I was at another LocalU event last year in Cleveland…but learning never stops…so I signed up for this one as soon as Read More
This post features links to some great online resources full of useful tips and advice aimed at helping small businesses make the most of the heaviest shopping season of the year. Read More
A basic rule: always and only mail-out to whoever wishes to receive it. Everything else is spam. So how does one obtain the necessary mailing-out permission? Here's a few tricks... Read More
Since the start of this week (i.e. in the course of the past 5 days) I’ve had 8 people (5 emails, 1 phone call, 1 LinkedIn message, and 1 blog comment) ask me to help them with affiliate advice. It just seems like a “perfect storm” situation, if you know what I mean… a perfect confluence of request Read More
Bidding on your competitors' names may seem like a great idea, but there are a number of issues that need careful consideration first. Read More
Hopefully, if you've recently gotten a web site designed and developed, you've also thought about search engine ranking and made sure that your web site will be easily indexed by search engine spiders. Read More
Consumers Spend More Time Online with Content (+ 24% since 2003) than Community and Communications and its importance for getting found online should be given priority and with the emergence and growth of Social Media from nowhere 6 years ago and the continuing growth and importance of Search (+ 67 Read More
There are hundreds of websites where you can go to learn about improving your search engine optimisation, but a topic that can be just as important are things your website may contain that are harming your rankings. Read More
Open Site Explorer is the best SEO tool for measuring your website's SEO performance, growth over time and competitive analysis. Read More
If you've seen summaries (like this one, for example) of Matt Cutts' yesterday's video on cloaking, you may have read that cloaking is always in violation of Google's quality guidelines and there is "no such thing as white hat cloaking". Yes, he actually did say that no "white hat cloaking" exists, Read More
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