{"id":775,"date":"2008-09-05T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:23:44","slug":"local-search-expert-sem-hot-seat-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/local-news\/local-search-expert-sem-hot-seat-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Search Expert &#038; SEM Hot Seat Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week&#8217;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&#8217;s recently moved here from San Fransisco.<\/p>\n<p>His name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmihm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Mihm<\/a>, he&#8217;s an expert in local search, and he&#8217;s agreed to give a similar presentation to the one he gave at SMX West in California couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re with a local business and want to know some specific things you can do to rank your business better when your city name is used in the query, then this is one presentation you don&#8217;t want to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Also at this event, I&#8217;m going to be on the 4 person panel for a mini &#8211; SEM Hot Seat event, along with David,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/Events\/Sponsor_Bios\/Todd_Mintz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Mintz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/Events\/Sponsor_Bios\/lisa-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Williams<\/a> and we&#8217;ll be critiquing three websites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sempdx.org\/Events\/?launch_pg=EventPage&amp;launch_sel=1000156&amp;launch_pg_sp=true&amp;title=September+2008+Hot+Seat+%2B+David+Mihm+%26amp%3B+Ranking+in+Local+Search+Algorithms\" target=\"_blank\">Check out more info here<\/a>, and if you come, please do take the time to introduce yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week&#8217;s SEMpdx presentation gets very specific regarding the local search ranking algorithm. 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