{"id":2081,"date":"2009-01-07T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2009-01-07T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T16:48:14","slug":"loci-2008-the-year-in-local-from-michael-jensens-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/loci-2008-the-year-in-local-from-michael-jensens-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Loci 2008: The year in Local from Michael Jensen’s Point of view"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Jensen<\/a>– @mdjensen on Twitter, is co-founder of SoloSEO.com, an SEO toolset and project management platform. <\/p>\n

Michael has a strong interest in local and mobile search, and blogs about Local Search and Local SEO. Michael is also behind LeaveFeedback.org<\/a>, a free service for local businesses to help improve online customer feedback, customer reviews, and local search rankings.<\/p>\n

One of Michael’s hobbies is developing Twitter tools such as LiveTwitting.com, TweetMarks.com, and TweetBeep.com. TweetBeep.com is like Google alerts for Twitter, and is a free service used by thousands of users for tracking conversations about you, your interests, your websites, your products, and your company. Since developing TweetBeep.com, Michael has consulted for both large and small companies in using search marketing and social media for online reputation management. <\/p>\n

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How to Create Effective Local Business Landing Pages<\/a>
\nby Dev Basu (@devbasu on Twitter)
\nBest practices for landing pages for local.<\/p>\n

Some Yellow Pages Usage Data: Print v. IYP<\/a>
\nby Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide on Twitter)<\/p>\n

Bulk Update Your Yellow Pages Data or Pay Someone Else To Do It?<\/a>
\nby Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide on Twitter)<\/p>\n

IYP Reach in the US (according to Google)<\/a>
\nVery awesome numbers that show who the big players are (City Search, YP, SuperPages, Yelp, Local and who’s not.<\/p>\n

Search Engine Optimization Means Business<\/a>
\nAbout a local DUI specialty practice employing online tactics to bring in tons of clients.<\/p>\n

Local Search – How to Totally Own in Google (Notes and Slides)<\/a>
\nA great list of things to do if you’re going to do local.<\/p>\n

The “BCS” for Local Search Engine Optimization<\/a>
\nby David Mihm (@davidmihm on Twitter)
\nDavid rocks, period. Another home run (or should I say touchdown).<\/p>\n

3 Things Your Local Business Can Offer That the Internet Can’t<\/a>
\nby Miriam at Solas Web Design
\nThorough discussion on local businesses’ edge over Internet only stuff<\/p>\n

How to Use Yahoo Local to Rank in Google Local and Vice-Versa<\/a>
\nby Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide on Twitter)<\/p>\n

Local SEO (Local Search) at Small Business Marketing Unleashed (Conference notes)<\/a>
\nby Will Scott (@w2scott on Twitter)
\nGreat notes, and everyone loves Will. Everyone should know Will.<\/p>\n

Why Local Is Different (Notes from SES NY 2008)<\/a>
\nby Lisa Barone (@lisabarone on Twitter)
\nA great read with some good nuggets in there. Pre-Webuildpages days for Lisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Jensen– @mdjensen on Twitter, is co-founder of SoloSEO.com, an SEO toolset and project management platform. Michael has a strong interest in local and mobile search, and blogs about Local Search and Local SEO. Michael is also behind LeaveFeedback.org, a free service for local businesses to help improve online customer feedback, customer reviews, and local …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-local-mobil","category-uncategorized","category-loci-significant-articles-local-search"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}