I spoke at a local Chamber of Commerce (http://www NULL.tualatinchamber NULL.com/) here in the Portland area last week, giving a brief presentation on the fundamentals of SEO. Unlike a previous event (http://www NULL.davidmihm NULL.com/blog/smbiz/what-i-learned-about-web-on-friday/) I’d attended just three months ago in eastern Washington, about 75% of this audience had actually heard the term “SEO” before.
But after my brief synopsis on local search, I still received a couple of questions from the audience related to “claiming your listing” and what that was all about. It seems that even in incredibly savvy small business markets like the one I spoke in, the concept of a local search engine remains foggy for SMB’s… read more at SMB’s Need More “Local” Outreach (http://searchengineland NULL.com/smbs-need-more-local-outreach-16304).
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