http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog In the trenches of local search Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:02:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This guide on creating a mobile version of your wordpress powered website is for sites that primarily use WP as a content management system (CMS) for static pages. If your WP powered site is mainly a blog then are plenty of plugins already available for displaying a mobile friendly version ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/building-mobile-page-tempaltes-in-wordpress/ This is part 2 of my guide on building a simple mobile version of a small business website. Part 1 covered that basic considerations you need to take into account before developing your mobile pages. Here we get into the specific of coding the pages. Part 3 will take this ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/coding-mobile-websites-in-xhtml-basic/ After building a few mobile versions of websites for some clients I though I would share some insights. I tend to work with small businesses that operate in local areas so this guide is catered primarily to simple ways to create a mobile version for those types of websites. This is ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/building-mobile-small-business-websites/ Google has finally added options for business owners to set their service areas, as reported a couple weeks ago by Matt McGee. Today it officially rolls out, again, along with a re-branding of the Local Business Center, now simply called Google Places. The service area is great for those businesses that ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/google-places-and-service-areas/ Some recent changes to the Local Search algo has led me to believe Google is trying to encourage us to enrichen the local web. Do that well and they will reward you with better rankings in Google Maps and that coveted 7 pack. What is the local web? Any location based ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/google-is-encouraging-us-to-build-the-local-web/ I just finished building this website for an auto detailing shop in Vancouver, BC and today am editing some stuff in their Google Maps profile when I spotted something new. Now you can post up to date events and specials about your business as seen in the screen shot below. You ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/google-maps-going-real-time/ Following my previous post where I recommended that Google should be allowing shared user access in the LBC I'm now thinking about best practices for transferring accounts. Basically how to pull it off with the minimum disruption to your listings current rankings. Maybe your web designer went ahead and created a ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/transferring-google-lbc-accounts/ Note to Google - this should be a priority for 2010 I  believe that business owners should own and control their online data. Or as much as is possible. Google generally feels the same way and recommends that business owners claim and verify their own listings in Maps.Too many small business ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/google-maps-lbc-should-allow-shared-users/ Google Maps is still in it's early stages of evolving and improving the ranking algorithm. Lots of easy, often spammy, methods for ranking are still working, but slowly many of these will be getting picked off by the G team. Are the current optimization methods you're using today going to ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/future-proof-google-maps-seo/ It's about time! I've been blogging over on my personal domain, stever.ca, but figured I should be running a blog here on this site. So only days before 2009 ends I decided to throw one up. :) I'll be keeping this blog focused towards local internet marketing. My random ramblings about ... http://www.geolocalseo.com/blog/hello-world/