My friends Rand Fishkin and Adam Audette recently wrote a couple of nice posts highlighting where they’ll be over the next couple of months…and while I don’t put myself in their league, I did feel a similar post was in order for my upcoming schedule, as there are a couple of noteworthy events I’d like [...]

Many of you are likely aware already, thanks to Matt McGee’s gracious article on Search Engine Land and Miriam Ellis’ follow-up on Search Engine Guide…but for those who haven’t heard yet…

Yesterday I launched a new website with my friend & business partner, Patrick Sexton, called GetListed.org. The site features a tool that helps small businesses see how the major Local search engines (Google Maps, Yahoo Local, Best of the Web Local, and Live Search Local) have them indexed, and notifies them if they’ve claimed their listings on those engines.

My news-reading habits may not be as extensive as, say, Sarah Palin’s, but most days, part of my morning routine is to read the New York Times online, and The Oregonian 2-3 days a week.
I particularly love the Times’ Op-Ed section–my favorites are Tom Friedman and David Brooks, as I may have mentioned before somewhere [...]

This post is the first in a series on non-U.S. sources for Local search engine citations. It is written by Martijn Beijk, a Dutch Local SEO / Mobile enthusiast, currently living in Barcelona. He focuses on research and optimization at Onetomarket, a leading online marketing agency covering most of European markets.

Over the past nine months, the importance of citations for Local SEO has become more and more apparent to me. And although I’m very focused on sourcing and acquiring citations for my own clients, all of whom are based in the United States, I realize there’s a whole wide world out there that I and other Local Search bloggers rarely pay attention to. So on that note, I decided to draw on the expertise of readers and colleagues around the world to develop what I think is the first “Guide to International Citations.”