SEO Radio (Local Search)

Anne started the hangout discussing a Local SEO campaign including a Facebook app which Terry added that he had done it in the past and wished her luck! Bill Slawski went on to discuss an upcoming post on Google Ranking Factors which Bill has since written and it is the best post I've seen on this topic. Bill, Terry and Steve discussed some of these factors in detail. Next, the group discussed Machine Learning, AI and analytics and how these terms are used improperly calling analytics machine learning and vice versa. Doc discussed his new site Mentors on Tap followed by Steve Bonin who talked about the joys of changing themes in WordPress. Steve discussed some local SEO he was doing that had many issues. Tim Colling also discussed a Local SEO project and asked Steve how he was handling reviews. Steve went over several actions and techniques for getting reviews. Terry Suggested SEMrush for actionable data. Terry continued the discussion talking about the new site coming from the SEO Training Dojo Community. SEO Dojo Radio has over 240 shows some are just audio (pre Google+) audio and or videos. Next Terry discussed implementing Event schema and how there is some confusion about the difference between the Event and Events schemas.

• Anne Kelley suggested this Platform for reviews https://www.podium.com/ Steve:Reviews.com
• Google Local pack business categories dynamically change based on query
• Schema Email group Bill suggested
• Bill suggested this for validating Schema:linter.structured-data.org
• The new Dojo Site Terry mentioned is: SEO Dojo Radio

The Hosts

• Terry Van Horne

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Google Local 2014

On the show this week we have Darren Shaw (from Whitespark) and Eduard de Boer who is a Google photographer. He's going to be giving us some insight into the workings of Google Business view while Darren is going to get into some issues related to listings and rankings on Google Local itself.

We have the full episode, as well as 4 smaller clips from the show.

Enjoy

Full Episode 

Local SEO Links From the Video

• Darren's Slideshow on auditing and fixing citations for local search gains
• Citation audit and cleanup service
• How to identify quality citation sources
• Submit contact form for entry: http://factual.com and factual.com Places
• Google maps too easy to spam
• Free software for tagging images: Darren and Eduard for Mac
• Link to Google Places support

Eduard (It's in Dutch)

• Google Maps Business View shoots
• Dutch (local) SEO services with the weekly Dutch podcast

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• Wil Reynold's Post
• Get Listed University Edmonton May 1st

Darren Shaw:

• Company: Whitespark
• Darren on Twitter

Garrett French:

• Company: Citation Labs, LLC
• Garrett on Twitter

• Search Return
• Disa on Twitter

If there was one area of SEO that was getting a lot of buzz going into the new year, it's local. After last weeks (innagural) show with Danny Sullivan, we really had to come up with something to follow that... and we did.

This week on the show we're having a local SEO panel discussion with a few of our favourite voices in the space. Joining us are; Mike Blumenthal, Andrew Shotland (Local SEO Guide) and Darren Shaw (local citation finder). I am quite trilled to not only have these great minds on, but to be talking about such an important topic.

Show Notes

• How to get around Google's local 7 pack
• Loci 2010; David Mihm
• Dead fingers walking

Tools Mentioned;

• Local search toolkit
• Rich Snippets
• H-card creator
• Geo site map generator
• Zip Map
• Local citation finder

Guests Sites;

• Mike's Local SEO blog
• Andrew's Local SEO Guide (blog)
• Darren's web design and SEO company

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Hey there, what's shakin'? It's time again for this week's edition of SEO Dojo Radio! Yes, I know, you've been just dying for it right? This week it will just be the regulators (Terry, Steve, Justin and myself) talking smack for the next hour or so. Among the many things we're hoping to cover, we have;

• From the (Dojo) Boards; is SEO getting too hard?
• On SNC; Search user behaviour study
• Comment spam WTF?
• Shopping @ Google heats up
• Google; my signals are bigger than yours
• Business.com closes; are directories dead?
• Matt Cutts speaks

We've no guest this week, so you're stuck with us. We were hoping to have Barry Schwartz on, but he's feeling under the weather, so we will have him back on next week with us. We've a LOT of goodies to yak about this week, so it won't be a problem.

Show Notes;

• Search User Behaviour on SNC
• Comment spam for links. REALLY? 83 tweets? REALLY?
• Raven plays with comment spammers
• Local Heatmaps = More to Think About with New Google SERPs
• Two Weeks Later: Changes in Google Local Traffic – tempest in a tea pot as usual?
• Key Takeaways From Google’s Matt Cutts Talk At PubCon
• Dear Bing, We Have 10,000 Ranking Signals To Your 1,000. Love, Google
• Business.com Closing: Directory Links A Thing Of Past?
• Google's new fashion portal – a sign of verticals to come?
• Improvements to Google Product search

Show Hosts;

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Justin Parks
• Dave Harry

Dojo Radio on iTunes;

Yes, it's that time again.. WE'RE BACK! While there was plenty going on over the last week, it seems we shall be spending most of the time in the first half of the show talking about the shake up in Google local via the places changes. It's certainly got a lot of folks up in arms, but is it really something they should be bitching about? Or is it a tempest in a tea pot? We're going to find out. Topics on hand include;

• Google Local SERP shake-up

• Google employees heading to Facebook

• RDFa support for ecommerce

Life and times of Virginia Nussey

In the second part of the show this week we have Virginia Nussey in house. Best known as a prominent blogger for Bruce Clay and host of SEM Synergy, she's now out on her own. We'll talk to her about what she's doing with herself now and her take on the world of copy writing and where she see's SEO headed.

Show notes;

• Local Search SERP shakeup spooks SEOs
• Google's official post on new Places changes
• Google local; Do you deserve to be there? Mike Wilton's post
• Brother Bill's post
• AdMob post; where startups go to die
• We have the RDFa Ecommerce snippets
• Who moved my cheese

• Virginia Nussey on Twitter
• Virginia's Blog