The Best Advanced Local Search Conference EVER

Ok. So I am a little biased. But that being said, last year’s spring Local  U Advanced was one of the most educational and fun events that I have ever participated in and we are bringing it back east. There was more of everything that I love about our industry: more great local content, more …

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Mining for Google Hummingbird Guano in So Cal

Google’s Hummingbird guano, like real guano, is fertile ground. Unfortunately, in the case of Google’s guano, it is fertile ground for spammers and spam and nothing as productive as farm crops. Southern California has always been a hot bed of Google local spam particularly in the legal industry. Yesterday I was exploring search results for …

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