{"id":235,"date":"2007-10-04T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/local-links-of-interest-12\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:06:12","slug":"local-links-of-interest-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/local-links-of-interest-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sterling has a good piece on the <a title=\"Permanent Link: The Debate Over User Reviews\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/04\/the-debate-over-user-reviews\/\">The Debate Over User Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt has a winner on <a title=\"Permanent Link: Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinesssem.com\/2007\/10\/03\/dear-small-business-owners-put-down-your-ranking-reports\/\">Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports<\/a> and it applies equally well to local search<\/p>\n<p>And Bill Slowski has an interesting patent review: <a title=\"Reading: Would You Rent Your Rooftop to Google To Show Ads Upon?\" rel=\"bookmark\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: default; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: #669900\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=847\">Would You Rent Your Rooftop to Google To Show Ads Upon?<\/a> (Too bizarre)<\/p>\n<p>And an older (but important) post from Ahmed at TechSoapbox on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsoapbox.com\/local-data-categories-tags-structure-and-taxonomy\/\">Local data &#8211; categories, tags, structure, and taxonomy.<\/a> I meant to reference earlier, but still well worth a read<\/p>\n<p>Google is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdafrica.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=3246&#038;Itemid=5822\">expanding Local info gathering<\/a> in East Africa as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sterling has a good piece on the The Debate Over User Reviews Matt has a winner on Dear Small Business Owners: Put Down Your Ranking Reports and it applies equally well to local search And Bill Slowski has an interesting patent review: Would You Rent Your Rooftop to Google To Show Ads Upon? (Too &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}