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Local Search – Mistake or Cleverness?

Scott — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:32:17 +0000

Doing a little bit if research, I noticed what I thought was odd behavior in Google local, taking me to directories instead of to a business, so I immediately jumped to a conclusion (imagine that!) and Twittered about it, pinging @davidmihm and @chiropractic Michael looked into it… and David thought it was odd too, so [...]

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How to Get Fake Reviews

Scott — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:34:27 +0000

You MUST know that Google can instantly tell whether a certain Google user who just left a review is a “real” user or not, right? Google has access to everything a user does from their web browsing history to their Gmail habits, and they have for years. They even know where you live, so creating [...]

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Google Boost Is Now AdWords Express

Scott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:15:49 +0000

It looks like Google Boost has undergone a name change to AdWords Express, but it appears everything else has remained the same. (update 7/26 – Google just announced the change) This morning while logging in to a client’s Google Places account, instead of seeing “create a Boost ad” or “See my Boost Dashboard” I’m seeing [...]

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Google Loves a Good Scrape

Scott — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:47:45 +0000

If you look at the Wikipedia definition of a scraper website, it says “A scraper site is a spam website that copies all of its content from other websites”. Well Google has a new project, that in my opinion, is basically just a well done Google scraper. Over the past dozen years or so, the [...]

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Google Has Feet on the Street

Scott — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:08:48 +0000

I got a phone call today, that began “I’m with Google…” and of course I was highly skeptical. I take marketing calls for several clients, and this is the standard opening line for multiple unscrupulous SEO companies. After just a minute, I realized it was the real thing, and he said he was part of [...]

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Threatdown | Removal from Google Index

Scott — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:04:39 +0000

This morning I got an e-mail regarding a domain from Google Webmaster Tools, pointing out that “…some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines”. Wow! What the…? It went on to say that “pages from yourdomain.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 [...]

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Google Hotpot – Not So Hot?

Scott — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:53:16 +0000

I just tried to leave a review at Google, while I was logged in, and instead of being given the old review screen, I was asked to set up a new profile. Here, it’s easier to show you… (*update four months later the name “Hotpot has finally been dumped. What a dumb idea that was [...]

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Should User Ratings Show in SERPs?

Scott — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:20:55 +0000

Last night someone I ran into from my PCC internet marketing class told me about an article in the New York Times this Sunday, concerning a merchant who had seen an increase in his business since he started treating his customers poorly. The eight page story that came out over the weekend is definitely worth [...]

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5 Questions Matt Was Not Asked at Pubcon

Scott — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:12:51 +0000

Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s Webspam team, and each year in the past, he’s been a participant in the “search engine smackdown” at Pubcon. This year he had the stage all to himself, and I was in the second row for the session as he talked about the current state of Google, and [...]

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Google Merging Organic and Local?

Scott — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:51:09 +0000

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, Yahoo, Bing, etc. have all been aggressively separating [...]

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