{"id":73,"date":"2006-12-23T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2006-12-23T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T19:52:57","slug":"73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/23\/73\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Local Standings via Relevancy (my hat is off to Bill Slawski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\">Understanding Google Maps<\/a> has been nominated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/?p=4161\">Search Engine Journal<\/a> in the category of <strong>Best Local Search Blog<\/strong>. It is an honor that I really appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>However, more importantly, it demonstrates <a title=\"SEO by The SEA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seo\">Bill Slawski<\/a>&#8216;s idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=70#comments\">gaining prominence through providing relevancy<\/a> in your local search marketing. While I am writing this blog to others in the Search Engine field there is every reason to use this nomination as an opportunity to achieve some local news coverage and &#8220;street cred&#8221; with my local clients. So while I won&#8217;t shamelessly ask for your vote in the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/?p=4161\">Search Engine Journal<\/a> Election, I <strong>will<\/strong> shamelessly flog the information to my local news media and my client base.\n<\/p>\n<p>The next step will be to parlay my writings and findings into a bang up seminar to evangelize more local businesses on these ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Understanding Google Maps has been nominated by the Search Engine Journal in the category of Best Local Search Blog. It is an honor that I really appreciate. However, more importantly, it demonstrates Bill Slawski&#8216;s idea of gaining prominence through providing relevancy in your local search marketing. While I am writing this blog &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}