Couldn’t resist a little hashtag-jacking… This is one of those posts where I #humblebrag about having been too busy to post much this year. The demand for our services and the complexity of some of our engagements ha…er…must…stop…the…marketingspeak… What I’m really trying to say is two awesome people have joined the Local SEO Guide team and I’d like to formally announce it to the world via the miracle of WordPress. We are super pleased to welcome Ashley Berman Hale, our…
So Rand is “stepping away” from Moz… When I started trying to figure out SEO around 2003, I had no idea what I was doing. As I recall I stumbled onto a few voices that helped me start to make sense of things – some of the more memorable were Andy Beard, Aaron Wall and Rand Fishkin. Each of these guys in their own way provided me with a veritable lifeline as I started to understand that SEO was a key factor in…
I was just looking for info on a local restaurant to hit in Pleasanton tonight and noticed this obnoxious message from Wix: Even if Tri Valley Bistro has a free Wix site, is this any way to treat a customer? Do you think Tri Valley Bistro’s customers either would be interested in creating a Wix site or even care/know what Wix is?
The news that IAC’s Home Advisor is merging with Angie’s List to form a new public company is both surprising and not all that surprising. In InsiderPages’ early days, we considered Angie’s List one of our top competitors but we were always baffled why anyone would pay to get access to their members’ reviews, particularly when sites like ours and Yelp’s were giving the content away for free. Back then Angie had the last laugh, as InsiderPages got acquired by…
Gannett’s announcement yesterday that its ReachLocal division has acquired SweetIQ really pissed me off in that the day after Yext’s* IPO I had a great conversation with a Local vet where I predicted that the success of the IPO would set off a wave a M&A in the Local Marketing Tech sector and damned if I wasn’t going to write an all-knowing post asap so I could look like a genius when it happened. Thanks to my endless capacity for…
Now maybe these results looked a lot worse before the contest so I can't say for sure it wasn't partially successful as an ORM play. But if people still have problems/questions about their Wix website's SEO, they are going to keep Googling them and posting them which will likely bring back more undesired results. As with everything else SEO, the ultimate sustainable answer is "make it good for users". And the fact that Patrick Stox did not get some kind…
At this late date, if you are not taking care of your local listings on the Web when you move your business, congratulate yourself for being royally out of touch with how business works in 2017. Last week I headed over to my dentist, Home Page DDS, for a cleaning and on the way recalled when I was there in November he had mentioned he was moving locations. While driving, I asked both Apple Maps and Google Maps for his…
Warning: I am not a financial analyst, but I play one on this blog Yext* has updated its S-1 filing to include more detail on its revenue and other aspects of its business in the run-up to its pending IPO. Since we’re all interested, I figured I’d provide some summary info. Some of the key details from Yext’s Consolidated Statement of Operations, Balance Sheet and other docs: Yext’s Revenues for the fiscal year ending January 2017 were $124,261,000, a 38%…
As the news of Yext’s S-1 filing in advance of its IPO makes it way throughout the Search industry, I can’t help but think that it will be a seminal event in the annals of Local Search. I’ll leave it to others to pore through the S-1 and pick it apart, and it appears there is plenty to pick at, at least amongst my skeptical followers: Pretty big news for the Local Search industry: https://t.co/EXsTpO4nYj — ((Andrew Shotland)) (@localseoguide) March 13, 2017…
I have wasted a good portion of my life clicking past this useless page. Yeah, I know, use Shortcuts, but still. It has been years since this report was useful. Why is it still around? And why is it so prominent in the UI? Instead of spending time making the side nav bounce around so you have to constantly follow it with your cursor (oh the humanity), how about fix this? #NOTGOODFORUSERS
