Understanding Google My Business & Local Search

Mike Blumenthal in Google Places (Maps & Local), Local Search, Loci - Important Articles for the Year January 26, 2010

Loci2009: Lisa Barone – Articles from 2009 that Caused Pause for Though

Here are some of the links that made me think this year:

* If I Were Launching a New Small Biz Website Today – Matt McGee
* Why Local SEO Is Important to Non-Local SEO – Patrick Sexton
* Google Place Pages SEO = Yellow Pages SOS & SOL? – Local SEO Guide
* How to Launch That Small Business Website – Outspoken Media
* Do-It-Yourself SEO Advice For SMBs – David Mihm
* Twitter Buys Into Geolocation – ITNews
* Google Local Research Data – Released – Distiled

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Mike Blumenthal

Comments

4 Comments

Jom Adastico (1 comments)

January 26, 2010 at 12:36 pm

Hey, checked each link. A great collection. Thanks for sharing your hard work.

Jim Rudnick (178 comments)

January 27, 2010 at 10:43 am

for a look at Lisa VS Scoble, her post on that todo was a great read too, tho perhaps not as SEO oriented as the above….

http://outspokenmedia.com/small-business-marketing/ignore-the-silly-man-seo-still-matters-for-smbs/

thanks Mike…great list too, eh!

🙂

Jim

Tom (19 comments)

January 28, 2010 at 6:33 am

Hey Mike,

Thanks for the link! Some great articles on there as well..

Thanks
Tom

jennifer t1 (6 comments)

October 1, 2010 at 5:39 pm

The article on Google local search was particularly interesting. I did a search on keywords surrounding my business, but none of the searches triggered a map, not even for competitors. I wonder why?