Marty of Aimclear sent this screen shot of what, at first glance, appeared to be a spammy onebox for the Google search SEO Duluth and perhaps foreshadowed the return of SEO to the 7 Pack after their banishment:
Neither is the case. Apparently there is a Physicians Assistant in Duluth by the name of Kengo Seo. As is often the case with Medical Practioners the listing sites that Google referenced had the last name first and it was added to the index that way.
Now if the good Dr. Seo would name his first child, Aimclear, Marty would be sitting golden.
Haha, on the one hand, this is TOO funny.
I also wonder, though, if this means that businesses who are actually SEO companies should remove that category and simply include it in their business titles?
Comment by David Mihm (108 comments) — February 26, 2010 @ 10:12 am
@David
Great idea!
Comment by Mike (1253 comments) — February 26, 2010 @ 10:21 am
@david A very well known search engine is watching Mike’s blog like a hawk! now it will never work.
unless…
Comment by Nifty Mike (11 comments) — February 26, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
@nifty
There is nothing like empiricism to answer the question. I think you should go for “Nifty SEO” with a category of potato vendor and see what happens.
Comment by Mike (1253 comments) — February 26, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
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This is very interesting. I thought google wasn’t doing locals for internet services anymore.
Comment by erica jensen (2 comments) — March 6, 2010 @ 2:38 pm
@Erica
They aren’t. This listing was a Dr whose last name is SEO
Comment by Mike (1253 comments) — March 6, 2010 @ 5:04 pm
I am not even surprised!
Comment by Max (3 comments) — March 7, 2010 @ 6:21 pm
What are the chances there would be a Dr SEO? That had me laughing for quite a while.
It’s a shame though that he’s caught up in the ongoing war of search engine optimizers.
Comment by Josh (6 comments) — March 9, 2010 @ 7:20 pm
Dr. SEO would always be at the top.
Comment by John (19 comments) — March 10, 2010 @ 11:41 am
Thats google localisation going too far. I feel sorry for the Dr who has the last name “sex”, google has issues with that!!
Comment by John (19 comments) — March 11, 2010 @ 12:05 am
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