{"id":383,"date":"2008-01-15T14:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/nominees-in-local-search-category-2008-semmy-awards\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:25:16","slug":"nominees-in-local-search-category-2008-semmy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/nominees-in-local-search-category-2008-semmy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominees in Local Search category: 2008 SEMMY Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.semmys.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.semmys.org\/dm\/badges\/lg_orange_nominee.gif\" alt=\"2008 SEMMY Nominee\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The following are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semmys.org\/category\/local-search\/\">nominees in the <strong>Local Search<\/strong> category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards<\/a>. The judge(s) will narrow this group down to 5-6 finalists. Congratulations to all nominees! Thanks for the recognition!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolf-howl.com\/local-search\/local-search-interviews-information-and-resources\/\">Local Search Interviews, Information, and Resources<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Michael Gray, Graywolf | 2\/5\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=470\">Location Prominence and Differences in Local OneBox and Google Maps<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 2\/8\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/googles-forced-choice-for-the-authoritative-website\/\">Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forced choice for the Authoritative Web Site<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Mike Blumenthal, Understanding Google Maps\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 | 2\/12\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/01\/local-numbers-setting-the-record-straighter\/\">Local Numbers: Setting the Record Straighter<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Greg Sterling, Screenwerk | 3\/1\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=510\">Google Local Search Glossary<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 3\/4\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/searchenginetigers.com\/2007\/03\/latest-local-search-facts-and-figures.html\">The Latest Local Search facts and figures<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Simon Heseltine, Search Engine Tigers | 3\/7\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/floristblogs.com\/blogs\/avant_gardens\/archive\/2007\/03\/27\/local-search-users-first.aspx\">Local Search: Users First?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Cathy Hillen-Rulloda, Avante Gardens | 3\/27\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=573\">Google Reviews: Reputation + Quality + Snippets + Clustering<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 4\/6\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=630\">Yahoo tackles Geographic Challenges of Web Search Results<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 5\/20\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=776\">Girl Scouts with Guns: Geographic Coding in Google Location Searches<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 8\/5\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=781\">When Might Google Show Local Search Information in Web Search Results?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea | 8\/12\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/070911-073029.php\">Yahoo Local Now Features &#8220;User Denigrated Content&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Mike Blumenthal, Search Engine Land | 9\/11\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tropicalseo.com\/2007\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-fro-fake-review-optimization\/\">Everything You Need to Know About FRO (Fake Review Optimization)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Andy Hagans, Tropical SEO | 9\/20\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing2.com\/2007\/09\/26\/five-reasons-why-the-mobile-web-sucks\/\">Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0 | 9\/26\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/give_local_sear.html\">Give Local Search Marketing a Shout Out with PlaceShout<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Lisa Barone, Bruce Clay Blog | 10\/11\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localbizbits.com\/2007\/10\/11\/local-search-on-facebook\/\">Local Search on Facebook<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Larry Sullivan, Local Biz Bits | 10\/11\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localseoguide.com\/geotargeting-location-by-ip-address-seo-death\/\">Geotargeting Location by IP Address = SEO Death<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Andrew Shotland, Local SEO Guide | 10\/14\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmihm.com\/blog\/google\/real-problem-with-local-search\/\">The REAL Problem with Local Search<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>David Mihm, Mihmorandum | 10\/25\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/how-many-google-coupons-are-there\/\">How many Google Coupons are there?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Mike Blumenthal, Understanding Google Maps\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 | 11\/3\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/071217-081815.php\">Anatomy &amp; Optimization Of A Local Business Profile<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Chris Silver Smith, Search Engine Land | 12\/17\/07<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solaswebdesign.net\/wordpress\/?p=152\">Google Reviews Review<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Miriam Ellis, SEO igloo | 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are the nominees in the Local Search category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards. The judge(s) will narrow this group down to 5-6 finalists. Congratulations to all nominees! Thanks for the recognition! Local Search Interviews, Information, and Resources Michael Gray, Graywolf | 2\/5\/07 Location Prominence and Differences in Local OneBox and Google Maps Bill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-uncategorized","category-yahoo-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}