MapQuest Transfers Local Listings Management To Yext

Last October MapQuest started outsourcing local business listings management to Yext. The “claim your MapQuest listings” page is hosted by Yext (I believe) with a co-branded look and feel. Yesterday MapQuest notified business users that its local business center and basic local listings…

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Hiring: Writer Who Understands Local SEO & Local Search Marketing

A belated happy 2014 to you all. There’s been a bit to much going on at the Local SEO Guide workshop to post this year. I’ll get back to it eventually. In the meantime, I am looking for a freelance writer who understands Local SEO and Local Search Marketing to help with a project. THIS […]

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Google To Replace Smartphone User-Agent To Improve Smart Phone Indexing

Google announced they are replacing the old smartphone crawler user-agent with a new one in order to make it possible for Google to index more smartphone content. Zhijian He, a smartphone search engineer at Google said that the previous user-agent “made it impossible for Google to index…

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3 Surprising Benefits Of Retargeting

As retargeting becomes more widely used and better understood, its reputation is improving. Marketers are learning to avoid creeping people out through better targeting and less intrusive messaging. Early adopters now have a year or two (or more) of ex…

An Easy Way To Check What Referrer Data Google, Bing Or Yahoo Pass To Your Secure Site

With the three major search engines migrating their default searches to secure search, over SSL/HTTPS, marketers and webmasters want to know what referrer and analytics data will be passed to them and what won’t. The majority of Google is secure search, Yahoo yesterday defaulted all searches…

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Are PDFs Optimal For SEO? The Pros And Cons

I expect that most everyone working in SEO knows that PDFs are indexable by search engines. PDFs can also appear with an authorship-rich snippet in Google SERPs. But, just because a file format can be indexed doesn’t always mean that it’s the ideal approach. Today, I’d like to…

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