Recent content by localsearchguy

Looks like Yahoo's dormancy in the local space may have been leading up to outsourcing it to Yext.

I've found the key to not getting distorted is to use a square image. If you don't have a square image you can mask a background to make it square. Here's an easy web app to help. Square Image Generator As far as size goes, as long as it's square, and in the 256x256 to 1024x1024 range you...

I have been tracking impressions and actions for several thousand listings and am seeing this trend across them all. Here is a sample of data since October 2012. This global drop in impressions is hard to explain. Considering the actions are relatively consistent, my theory is that SERPs...

I've seen some strange things like "canada" appearing as a top query. After looking into it I found that Google is only storing the incremental search when a user refines a search. For example if I search for "car insurance" then append "canada" to my search and on the second search my...

I've used them on a pretty large scale with minimal success. I did find that uploading the images to Flickr with a Business Name City State name was almost immediately effective for image search. Make sure you verify the geo-coding works on each site you send the photo to, from my experience...

Exactly what I was trying to say with ~20 slide, but in 3 sentences...

I used reveal.js to make the presentation - reveal.js - The HTML Presentation Framework But I also do use A brand new approach to screenshot software |?Clarify-it for screenshots, good sleuthing... I'm not convinced that Google 'trusts' paid listings. They're just too easy to manipulate with...

I'm voting for paid citations not counting, or at least not counting as much as organic. Paid Local Listings As Citations?

Curious to hear opinions here. Does Google consider 'sponsored listings' or 'paid listings' as a citation? Are they treated differently, less trusted, more trusted, ignored? Here are a few examples of the types of 'sponsored' or 'paid' results I'm talking about. YP.com Whitepages.com...

I know that yellowpages.com, yp.ca and the big 3 (google yahoo bing) will limit based on IP. However, most sites aren't sophisticated enough to limit based on IP, especially if you are actually doing this manually. BUT... proxies are so cheap, so when in doubt, proxy it up.