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	<title>Mihmorandum: Local SEO + Web Design</title>
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	<description>David is a freelance designer who creates search-friendly websites for clients throughout the Western United States.  David has dabbled in web design since the late 1990's and has designed on a professional basis since January 2001.  Contact him at (503) 560-2755 or davidmihm@gmail.com.</description>
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		<title>Is Verizon a Data Supplier to Google Places?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, I've claimed my consulting business on most of the major search engines and data aggregators, and done my best to make sure that my NAP information (Name, Address, and Phone number, for those of you new to Local Search) is consistent everywhere.   Sure there are a few minor variations of my official DBA (David Mihm Web Design / Local SEO) due to various aggregators' limitations on length of business title.

But, I recently came across a crazy bug on my Google Place Page!  I couldn't believe it.  My phone number had all of a sudden changed from 503-560-2755 to 971-400-6360.  I had two questions--#1, of course, why had my phone number changed?  #2--and more importantly--where did that number come from?]]></description>
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		<title>[Infographic] A Brief History of Google Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOs tend to work themselves into a frenzy over every minor news announcement that comes out of Mountain View–and one could probably say Local SEOs lie on the extreme end of the spectrum. In some respects, it&#8217;s understandable. Our space is constantly evolving, and to ignore these announcements can put us at a significant disadvantage relative to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIA/Kelsey Group ILM West Day Three LiveBlog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back on Day Three &#8212; off to a bit of late start again :) Bo Fishback, Zaarly Zaarly is 10 months old, $1MM in seed funding, $14MM in Series A funding, and got Meg Whitman on the board.  They are doing peer-to-peer selling.  Say what you want, what you are willing to pay, and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIA / Kelsey ILM West 2011 LiveBlog Day Two</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/seo-industry/ilmwest-2011-day-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And we&#8217;re off! Recap of Day 1 from BIA Kelsey&#8217;s Jed Williams Companies are partnering even with traditional enemies these days (ClearChannel and Cumulus, for example). Your biggest competitors are coming from markets you can&#8217;t even see right now. Being &#8220;average&#8221; at a bunch of different things means you are doomed to fail in today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIA / Kelsey Group ILM West 2011 LiveBlog Thread</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/seo-industry/ilmwest-2011-liveblog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'll be blogging sessions on this thread throughout the next couple days.  Looking forward to the conversations in the comments and/or on the ol' Twitter.]]></description>
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		<title>See You in San Francisco Next Week?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/seo-industry/kelsey-ilm11-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quick note, readers, that I&#8217;ll be heading to BIA/Kelsey Group&#8217;s Interactive Local Media conference next week in San Francisco.  You may remember from previous years, this has been one of my absolute favorite events to attend&#8211;much different from a typical SEO show, action-packed (and often contentious) presentations, and extremely stimulating networking.  If you&#8217;re in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Search Articles of Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/recent-search-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links of Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, I know I&#8217;ve been incredibly lax in posting recently.  October was a very busy month.  Including the last week of September and the first week of November, I was busy putting on four Local University events with Mike Blumenthal, Mary Bowling, Matt McGee, Aaron Weiche (PS&#8211;Minnesotans looking for a web gig, Aaron is hiring), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Places Spam Filter: Still Not Perfect</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/google-places-spam-filter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/google-places-spam-filter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I don&#8217;t like to call out companies for spamming (I am happy to leave that to Professor Maps), but when it&#8217;s - this egregious - on this scale - hurting REAL Local SMB&#8217;s instead of one big corporation vs. another I feel compelled. It is about as blatant as business title spam gets.  See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yelp vs Google in Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/yelp-vs-google-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/yelp-vs-google-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you have probably heard that Google will go before the Senate Antitrust Committee in a couple hours.  One of the star &#8220;prosecution&#8221; witnesses is Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. Regular readers know that in general, I&#8217;d like to see more oversight of Google&#8217;s activities by somebody &#38; I&#8217;m hoping that these proceedings lead to exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Blumenthal Featured in New York Times; Google Responds Immediately</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/nyt-closed-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/nyt-closed-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a very pleasant surprise on NYTimes.com last night: this article on the ease of crowdsourcing business closures within Google Places.   &#8220;The Oracle of Olean,&#8221; Mike Blumenthal, features prominently in the second half of the article, as the Times found his experiment on closing Google&#8217;s Mountain View location particularly illustrative and amusing. [...]]]></description>
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