Local - Places - Maps Categorized Posts

Google Merging Organic and Local?

by Scott | Oct 29, 2010 | Google, Local - Places - Maps

Serious “localization” of the search engine results has been going on for a couple of years now, but this week Google morphed the results again entirely. A lot has changed since I began learning about local search in 2007, and as you likely know by now,...

Google is All Over the Map

by Scott | Jan 6, 2010 | Google, Local - Places - Maps

Google is all over the map in the way it displays search results, but it looks like SEO, web-hosting, and web design are not! Well, technically they’re still “on the map” but the map is not showing up any more in Google searches. Yes, in case you...

Local Search Ranking Nuggets

by Scott | Sep 9, 2009 | Google, Local - Places - Maps, SEO

Last night my kids had football practice, and I had an 8pm commitment too, but I wanted to attend last nights monthly SEMpdx event, which was David Mihm’s presentation on local search. Recently, I’ve found myself working with some very small local...

Local Search Expert & SEM Hot Seat Combined

by Scott | Sep 5, 2008 | Education, Events, Google, Local - Places - Maps, Local news, Public Speaking

Next week’s SEMpdx presentation gets very specific regarding the local search ranking algorithm. SEMpdx is fortunate to have a new board member join us for 2009 who’s recently moved here from San Fransisco. His name is David Mihm, he’s an expert in...