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City-Name TLD and Local SEO 21 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
A few days ago ICANN approved 95 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Among these were the first ever city-name TLDs – .hamburg and .cologne. I initially read about this in an article by Dennis Tipp...
What Actually Happens When One Cancels Yext 12 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
A few weeks ago I wrote about the difference between manual citation building and an automated service, such as Yext. The article sparked a discussion specifically around one of the main comparison po...
Small But Important Clarifications to the Google Local Quality Guidelines 11 Aug 2013 | 11:04 am
Google just made some small, but important clarifications to their Quality Guidelines for local listings. The clarifications are related to some situations that weren’t previously covered, or were cov...
Comparison Between Manual Citation Building and Yext 25 Jul 2013 | 06:58 pm
One of the most frequent questions I get (especially after this review on Yext) is how a manual citation building services, such as ours, compares with an automated listings distribution service, such...
Yahoo! Local’s Ridiculous Time Frames and Other Issues 22 Jul 2013 | 12:17 pm
When Marissa Mayer was named CEO of Yahoo, many people (including me) believed that she might put serious effort into resurrecting the rather forgiven by the previous management(s) Yahoo! Local. And w...
How to Understand If a Listing is Claimed or Not (Part 1) 22 May 2013 | 05:34 pm
In my daily citation building work I encounter a lot of different cases. Sometimes, the business I work with has absolutely no online presence other than a 1-page website. In other cases, the business...
Google Places Email Support in Other Languages 16 May 2013 | 10:46 am
As previously noted by Mike Blumenthal, Google effectively closed their Places support forums in all languages other than English. Obviously this situation is not perfect for users around the world, s...
Why I Am So Inactive Recently 13 May 2013 | 01:21 pm
Probably most of the regular readers of my blog have noticed that I am unusually inactive recently. With only 1 post since 27 February, this is by far the worst period for me in terms of writing produ...
How Google’s Local Search Results Will Look in Europe 26 Apr 2013 | 04:09 pm
Google has been the subject of antitrust investigations in Europe for some time now. The reason has been allegations from competitors about some anti-competitive practices of Google, especially relate...
Citation Building Guide – Why You Should Get It 27 Feb 2013 | 06:42 pm
Since I wrote my first (and only, up to now) e-book (Citation Building Guide) about 3 months ago I’ve been having a lot of requests for additions and I’ve been receiving questions related to topics th...
