Mary Bowling - seOverflow

Dear Web Designer, I Want New Customers to Call Me, Please

May 18th, 2011

Phone calls are the life blood of many types of local businesses. Are you designing websites that help make those phones ring? If not, you should be. Why? Read on.

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What We Learned from the Google Tags Experiment

April 18th, 2011

Through several iterations, Google used Tags to raise ad dollars from small businesses. In May 2011, Google Tags will be discontinued. Agencies and Google learned a few things from this experiment in trying to make advertising easy for local businesses. Read more about it here.

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SMX West 2011 Local Search Insights

March 14th, 2011

SMX West 2011 was one of the best conferences I’ve been to in quite a while because of all the local and mobile sessions that were on the schedule. Here are a few of the shiny nuggets of Local Search info I gleaned from those sessions: QR codes (Quick Reader) offer extraordinary opportunities for aligning

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