Archive for July, 2007

Google Announces Search for Small Businesses

Google announced today that it is offering a search mechanism for small business websites. For $100 a year, Google will allow you to customize a search engine that displays only pages from your site. It had previously offered this service for free via its ‘Custom Search Engine’ product. But of course this [...]

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Marchex: Friend or Foe to Local Business?

Noted Local SEO analyst Greg Sterling recently detailed Marchex’s launch of 100,000 local search sites for Search Engine Land. (The official Marchex release is here.)
Marchex describes itself as “a leader in delivering vertical and local online traffic to merchants.” Awww, cute and cuddly as a teddy bear, right? Not so fast…note the careful [...]

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