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Dear Web Designer, I Want New Customers to Call Me, Please
May 18th, 2011Phone 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.
Read MoreTracking Local Search – SMX Toronto 2011
April 29th, 2011Thank you to all who attended my presentation on Tracking Local Search at SMX Toronto 2011. Whether you attended or not, I hope you’ll enjoy my slide deck embedded below. Below the slide deck you’ll find a quick list of links I mentioned in the presentation. Feel free to get in touch with questions in
Read MoreGoogle Places Reporting Tool
April 29th, 2011Anyone managing more than a few locations in a Google Places account, understands the pain of gathering data from Google Places (impressions, clicks, actions, etc.) to include in their client reports. We are happy to provide you a new tool (kinda free) to help save you hours of your or your intern’s time. Behold the
Read MoreCall Tracking is Not Cloaking, Vanessa Fox Confirms
April 28th, 2011During the SMX Toronto conference I asked former Googler Vanessa Fox and technical SEO Jonathan Hochman about a recent point made by my good buddy Chris Silver Smith regarding the issue that phone call tracking on a website maybe considered cloaking. The unanimous response was that since we are showing the same content to a
Read MoreWhat We Learned from the Google Tags Experiment
April 18th, 2011Through 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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