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In local SEO, if citations are the equivalent of links, how about doing the same thing? How about looking for your competitor’s citations and trying to get the same ones? That’s exactly what the Local Citation Finder does, a new tool that instantly becomes a must-have for local SEO Read More

This is the 3rd of a 5-part series I'm writing on SEO for (local) blogs. The ideas and tactics aren't specific to just local blogs, though. I talk about optimizing separate phrases in the article headline vs. the title tag, URL optimization, etc Read More

Few things grate on me more than hearing my fellow SEOs talk about how easy local SEO is. There’s less competition! The competition isn’t SEO savvy! Keyword choices are limited! It’s a piece of cake, they say. That’s about as accurate as me saying that traditional SEO is a piece of cake. Sweeping generalizations are often wrong, and this shows why local SEO isn’t as easy as many think it is. Read More

The New York Times published an article this week with several good examples of small businesses using Twitter. One is Humphry Slocombe, an ice cream shop in San Francisco. It seats 14 people, but has close to 300,000 followers. How Read More