Yelp SEO Analysis: Part Two

Here’s Part II from last week’s SEO analysis of Yelp. Sorry it took so long. In this week’s episode we are going to analyze the following pages on Yelp: 1. Category Landing Page 2. Category Search Results Page 3. Member Profile Page

Yelp SEO Analysis: Part One

A few months ago I noticed that Yelp, one of the media darlings of local search, had hired Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz to update their SEO strategy. As a former Yelp competitor I had spent a fair amount of time studying their local SEO tactics and I thought it might be helpful for my readers to provide an overview of how their strategy has changed and what the results have been. Apologies to any SEO newbies as this might be…

Take Back Your Reputation From The Online Yellow Pages: Just Say No to NoFollow!

Here’s part II of what I’ll be talking about at SMX Local in a few minutes. So you’re a business and you have a local website or websites you like (or don’t like but have been successful at not dealing with that issue). Your business info is listed all over the Web. You’re on a lot of the Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs) sites. They even link to your website from their page about you (I call it the Business Profile…