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Local Internet Search MarketingLocal Internet Search MarketingLocal Biz Bits provides relevant info on local search and related Internet marketing techniques and shows small businesses how they can take advantage of them, in plain, simple terms. Articles
SanGabe.biz - Local Business Center
2008-06-04 01:02:00 Today we have a nice interview with Dan Vigil of San Gabriel Valley Newsgroup. Q. Tell the readers a little about yourself and your background. A. Most of my experience has been in advertising sales and small business development. I’ve helped start several companies here in the Southern California area over the past 20 years. I’ve also ... More About: Business , Interviews , Small Business , Local , Center
New Local Search Service From Brick Marketing
2008-05-22 04:06:00 Just got done talking with my good friend Nick Stamoulis over at Brick Marketing about a new service his company has set up–Local Search Engine Marketing Submission Service . I have worked with Nick; he and his company do fine work. In addition to Brick Marketing, Nick runs a number of informative marketing blogs (see below). As I ... More About: Interviews
Local Search Basics
2008-05-09 03:52:00 Wanted to bring your attention to a few articles that I have had sitting on my stack of stuff. The Ten Commandments of Online Marketing for Small & Local Businesses by David Mihm is a great piece on what small business need to do with their website. Some of what he covers is: research keywords create good content build website simply link ... More About: Search , Basics
Understanding Online Marketing
2008-05-06 04:54:00 I think the biggest issue facing small business owners, who are not very Internet savy, is what Internet marketing is all about. Educating my clients and potential clients is done on a daily basis. I do not mind explaining things to folks but it can be frustrating. Unrealistic expectations is the #1 problem I have ... More About: Marketing , Online Marketing , Small Business , Online , Understanding
When can?t you do local search?
2008-05-03 05:59:00 Well…when you are at a hotel for a week and you need to pay for Internet access. I was in St Louis this week and if I wanted to use the Internet in my room, I had to pay for it. Now I could get free Internet in the lobby. I am not a world traveler but I ... More About: Search , Local
Yokld.com Announces their Beta Launch
2008-04-23 04:38:00 Yokl’d is a “Best Of” local business ranking social platform that is 100% compiled and commented on by users. The idea behind Yokl’d is simple, the more times a business gets voted for, or against, the higher or lower in the Yokl’d rankings it will be listed. Below are a few of the features that Yokl’d provides ... More About: Search Engines , Beta , Directories , Launch
Internet Marketing Quandary
2008-04-21 03:59:00 The other day I was speaking with a client (I helped her finish a web site). She wanted to do some SEO for her new business web site. She knew she needed to market on-line and that the search engines were important. [Hooray!] Her question to me was “who to use?” She had spoken to a ... More About: Marketing , Internet , Internet Marketing , General
Time To Celebrate!
2008-04-17 02:56:00 Today begins LocalBizBits second year! Man time flies. As I look over the first year, I must say blogging has been a lot of fun (and a lot of work). I have meet a lot of neat folks and learned quite a bit myself about local search marketing. So today, I just want to take a minute ... More About: Time , Celebrate
Lets Finish Thinking Local
2008-04-12 04:47:00 Q. Where do you get your listings from, what database/sources? A. We obtain our listings from several different sources. The bulk of our listings have come from Acxiom, but we do have several other sources from which we obtain listing information. The fact that we are powered by Network Solutions also provides us access to a ... More About: Search Engines , Interviews , Local , Directories , Thinking
Think, Think, Think
2008-04-11 03:52:00 Today we are happy to have Julia Dalton Manager, Marketplace & Directory Services from ThinkLocal.com Q.Tell us a little about yourself. A. I began my experience in the internet industry working for MonsterCommerce, an Ecommerce company that is now part of Network Solutions. My background is focused mainly in online marketing and product development, particularly with search ... More About: Search Engines , Interviews , Directories
Finding a Parking Place
2008-04-03 05:29:00 Got an email a while back from a new website/local search, Parking Hunter.com. The purpose of the website is to help folks find places to park their cars. From their press release: ParkingHunter.com has created a marketplace for monthly parking spaces and currently has 2500+ parking spots available. The goal is to connect car-less home owners ... More About: General , Place
Small Business Stuff (Part 2)
2008-03-31 04:16:00 Email marketing can be a very effective means of communicating on-line but one needs to be careful. With all the spam out there, it can be difficult. I recently sat down with the CEO of mobileStorm ? email and mobile marketing, Jared Reitzin and picked his brain. Q. Tell us a little about your site and ... More About: Business , Interviews , Small Business , Stuff , Small
Linking Advice
2008-03-19 03:39:00 Another quick post on a few articles on link building that I thought deserved your attention: Link Building Secrets Revealed by Top Linking Experts put together by Pole Position Marketing. You can even download a pdf file. No Recession For Link Building by Eric Ward How Social Media Becomes Link Fertilizer, by Eric Ward More About: Advice
Defending Your Reputation On-line
2008-03-19 03:29:00 There have been a number of informative posts on the subject over the last few months, so I decided to share those I liked. It is getting more important these days to have some idea of what is being said about you and your company. More and more business are now offering reputation management services. Happy ... More About: Social , On-line , Line , On Line , Reputation
I dream of Genie..Local
2008-03-13 02:08:00 Today I have the privilage of speaking with John A.Manning, SVP Business Development of GenieKnows. Q. Can you tell us a little about yourself? A. My background is in Clinical Therapy and Educational Psychology which I practced as a private practioner until 2004.I am one of the founding partners of Genieknows.com which we started in 1999. At ... More About: Search Engines , Interviews , Local , Directories , Dream
Local.com - the Quiet Local Search Giant?
2008-03-06 05:18:00 When everyone is speaking /writing about local search engines, usually they mean Google and Yahoo, but what about Local .com? They seemed to be in the news every other week last year, (check out their press releases) and just recently this year - Local.com Wins Hitwise U.S. Top Ten Award. I get my clients listed there and from ... More About: Search Engines , Search , Directories , Giant
Linking Locally
2008-02-28 05:45:00 I read a great article today over at Convert Offline, It?s No Secret? Link Building In Local Search Is Different. Tim talks about link building for the local business. I have talked about this subject a while back at Building small business websites for today. In that post I link to a couple of articles I wrote ... More About: Linking
Local Search Insights
2008-02-26 15:43:00 I am always interested in hearing what others have to say about local search. I have been following a number of very good interviews with those in local search marketing that I wanted to share with you. SEO Igloo has been running a series. So far there has been: Andrew Shotland - Local SEO Interview 5 Will Scott - ... More About: Search , Insights
Getting no respect
2008-02-20 05:02:00 Brian Wool put it quite well in his article, Local Search: The Rodney Dangerfield of Online Marketing “Local search receives very few mentions and little analysis from the mainstream media or analysts relative to the dollars it generates and its potential growth. So why does local search get so little respect?” In his article, Brian goes through and ... More About: Respect
A Call to Bats!
2008-02-17 03:20:00 “Baseball been bery, bery good to me!” Well pitchers and catchers are reporting, the rest of the team will be in camp soon…it is time for baseball once again! All is well in the universe. I thought it would be fun to run a fantasy baseball league this year. No, I have never done one before but ... More About: Bats , Call
Some Interesting Local Search Marketing Ideas
2008-02-06 02:32:00 Found a couple of interesting articles on building local traffic and interacting with potential local customers a while back. Both of these had crossed my mind before but these guys wrote about them first so…. Going Local in StumbleUpon by Jake Matthews StumbleUpon is a cool social marketing tool. I have been using it for a number of months and LocalBizBits has ... More About: Marketing , Ideas , Interesting , Search
The bigger they are?.
2008-02-05 02:27:00 I am still numb! The New York Giants are Super Bowl XLII champions! AMAZING. What an incredible game, what an incredible season and post season! Eli and company came and beat up Tom and the Patriots. As a football fan, I know how incredible a perfect season would have been but as a New York ...
Are You Ready For Some Football?!
2008-01-31 04:36:00 Need to take a break from business and root on my New Yorks Giants this weekend! I have to congratulate the Patriots on going undefeated this season, which is very impressive but I have to pat my Giants on the back too. Who would have thought they would have made it to the SuperBowl? I ... More About: Football , Ready
Local Search Perfection?
2008-01-31 04:13:00 Last year, I wrote, “Local Search Ain’t Perfect, So What” and I still agree that “you got to live with what you have.” Yes local search is not perfect but it is growing and developing. Since that post, there have been a few articles on the subject that I want to pull together here. [I ... More About: Perfection
Federated Local Search-Zvents
2008-01-29 03:58:00 Paul O’Brien sent me a note, letting me know about some exciting news at Zvents: “Zvents is releasing today (Jan 28, 2008) Federated Local Search . The blended experience will combine all facets of local content into one SERP: business listings, movies, restaurants, events, sales, performers/celebrities (in town), sports, etc.” From what I have read and seen, it ... More About: Search Engines , Directories
Local Search - Canadian Style
2008-01-23 05:52:00 Today I am catching up with Darby Sieben, of Darby Sieben - Internet Marketing and YellowPages.ca. In the past, I wrote about local search over in Europe and Poland, so I thought we would see what is happening in Canada. Q. Darby, can you our readeers a little about yourself? A. I am a 14-year veteran in the Internet ... More About: Interviews , Search , Style , Canadian , Local
Local Search Do-it-Yourself Resources
2008-01-17 03:29:00 The Internet is a wonderful resource tool for small business, but it is a dynamic one. What is said today, might not apply next week. Through my web surfing, I have found a number of nice resources for those who wanted to do some local search marketing themselves. As with the “normal” search engines, there are ... More About: Resources , Search , Local
Thank You for Your Support, again
2008-01-13 06:47:00 Just found out that LocalBizBits has a post (Local Search on Facebook) nominated for the SEMMYs Local Search category. You can see all those nominated here. Once the finalists are chosen, public voting will begin. Keep your fingers crossed. More About: Support
Yokld and the Small Business
2008-01-12 03:33:00 The conclusion of our interview with Jay Mallinckrodt of Yokld.com Q. How are businesses added to the system? via individuals? via on-line databases? A. Any business can be added by any member of the Yokld user community at any time. At this point we have opted not to purchase a local database since we want the content ... More About: Business , Search Engines , Interviews , Small Business , Small
Yokld - New Local Business Ranking Social Platform
More articles from this author:2008-01-11 05:25:00 Today I am speaking with Jay Mallinckrodt from Yokld.com. Q. What is Yokld.com? A. Yokld is a “Best Of” local business ranking social platform that is 100% compiled and commented on by users. The idea is simple - the more times a business gets “Yokl’d” (voted for) the higher in the rankings it will be listed. Q. How ... More About: Business , Social , Search Engines , Interviews , Local 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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