If a business doesn’t have a storefront, is mobile, or provides a service to a large geographical area, it is logical that the business owner would want to be listed online in multiple cities. Service providers such as locksmiths, lawyers, accountants, and chains often get their business optimized for the many areas they service

Google yesterday announced that 244,237 out of 8,458,084 households (2.89 percent) want images of their homes to be blurred when Street View map imagery launches in Germany’s 20 biggest cities in a few weeks.

My first liveblog for SES Chicago didn’t happen until day three. The lucky topic? Advanced Keyword Research presented by Ron Jones CEO of Symetri Internet Marketing

Below is live coverage of the Maile Ohye, Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google from the SES Chicago conference. This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick .

Last week’s news that OneRiot had shuttered its search engine left something of a void in the real-time search space. Numerous developers and companies that had come to rely on OneRiot’s API were suddenly out in the cold

Many companies develop products and services relying on their networks and various types of “do it yourself” marketing to get the word out. As companies grow, especially in the software and tech business, subject matter expertise in technology can only go so far when it comes to building a brand, creating influence and inspiring the kind of word of mouth that boosts sales. While the founders might be great at developing their product and evangelizing it, they rarely have the experience or resources to amplify marketing beyond their first hand experience

Tackling the development of a new search and social media course is no mean feat – ask Aleksej Heinze, from Salford University’s Business School!  He’s been the driver behind a new academic-led, industry-supported search and social media course .

“ And you know, he’s the devil… He’s everything that I ain’t… Hiding intentions of evil, Under the smile of a saint”.…  Kris Kristofferson I was going through my email inbox looking for ideas to write about when I came across some stuff I sent out recently.  Somebody asked me to review a blog post and after reading it, I responded: “This post really doesn’t work for me.  Some of the grammatical constructs throughout the post are awkwardly done and I don’t feel that you’ve made any tangible connection between…” Fortunately, I still have a good relationship with this person :.) Here’s another one where I was evaluating someone’s website: …I’m reasonably sure the poor format going on here (a code issue) is screwing up your site indexing in Google.  The design of your site is a huge mess and before you even think about search marketing, you really need a total SEO Friendly web design in place (and you need professional copywriting as well). I then went off on offered my opinion about a few other things not related to SEO.  I’ve yet to hear back from him…really nice guy, hope I didn’t hurt his feelings :.) Quite a bit of communication passes through my email inbox…some of it is the typical volume of professional / social correspondence for somebody who is somewhat visible in the search marketing industry and some of it involves people contacting me for reasons that might include my professional services.

It is over five months since the Google May Day update docked and we still have many SEOs and webmasters talking about it. The last time we covered it was at the end of September, under the May Day Monster….

A common question I see asked in the SEO/SEM forums is why don’t the analytics in Google Webmaster Tools, where it says click throughs and the metrics in terms of traffic to your site in Google Analytics match up with…