Archive for August, 2009

 

SMB’s, Local SEO’s Lose Their Best Friend at Google Maps

One of the more important news items of the Local Search Summit in San Jose will actually happen Friday in Mountain View. It will be the last day at Google for Jen Chin, a.k.a. MapsGuideJen.  She’s leaving the smog and congestion of the South Bay for Graduate School in Environmental Management at a prestigious university on the [...]

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Google Details LBC “Whitelist” Bulk Upload at LSS Q&A Session

We’re going to go through the AMAZING day at Local Search Summit in reverse order; posts on other sessions will be forthcoming.  For those of you not in attendance, Steve Espinosa (moderating the session) just made fun of me for not liveblogging the session so here I am complying.  Because obviously fellow attendees haven’t made [...]

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Upcoming Local Search Events August – October

As those of you who follow me way too closely on Twitter probably know, I was at my 10-year high school reunion all of last week.  So, sorry the posting has been a little light. I’ve also been hard at work on SEVERAL presentations for the upcoming month, and looking forward to all the upcoming [...]

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