Category Archive: Geo Location

Facebook Places – Implied Consent?

By Sam Crocker. Published August 19, 2010 in the Geo Location, Reputation Monitor category

Good morning! I Just wanted to update you all on the wonderful new feature over at Facebook- Facebook Places. Facebook Places clearly has potential- massive user base, loads of opportunity for geo-targeted specials (as has been masterfully created by Foursquare, Continue reading »

Google Local Research Data Released For Free

By Tom Critchlow. Published December 1, 2009 in the Geo Location, SEO category

Being a good SEO involves research. You need to be constantly pushing the envelope on the data that you gather, the insights that you gain and what recommendations you provide in terms of what works and what doesn’t. Google Local Continue reading »

Generic vs Local TLDs: Some data, some thoughts, and some pretty graphs

By Duncan Morris. Published November 9, 2009 in the Geo Location category

One of the most frequent questions we get asked, both at Distilled and SEOmoz Q&A, is how a business should set up their website(s) to target multiple countries or multiple languages. The majority of the questions boil down to whether Continue reading »

A letter to my 2007 self: assorted advice

By Will Critchlow. Published June 10, 2009 in the Distilled, Geo Location, PPC, SEO category

Rand recently wrote his 2007 self a letter and asked me and a bunch of other people to do the same. I was struck, reading Rand’s letter, by the degree to which his advice to himself is useful and actionable Continue reading »

New Adwords Plusbox Feature Being Tested

By Tom Critchlow. Published May 13, 2009 in the Geo Location, PPC category

In amongst all the kerfuffle of the searchology news I’ve noticed something else new being tested on adwords. I’m not sure if this is a permanent change for a select number of sites or if it’s the start of a Continue reading »

The Potential For Viral Marketing (or, How To Watch Videos At Work)

By Lucy Langdon. Published July 17, 2008 in the Geo Location, Reputation Monitor category

There’s little that’s more exciting online at the moment than the viral hype surrounding The Dark Knight. It was pure luck that when Emily stuck a post-it on my desk today that said ‘working??’ as I watched the trailer for Continue reading »

A Reader’s Response to Our Geo-Location Questions

By Tom Critchlow. Published April 15, 2008 in the Geo Location category

Following on from our recent post where we asked various SEOs from around the world questions on geo-location one of our readers Sean Carlos emailed me asking if it was alright to leave quite a lengthy comment which included a Continue reading »

Local SEO’s Share Geo Location Tips From Around The World

By Lucy Langdon. Published April 10, 2008 in the Geo Location, Interviews category

Geo location is becoming increasingly relevant to search engine optimisation. This interview aims to ask questions about some of the hottest issues out there. I spoke to 5 experts who are all active in the SEO world. The answers here Continue reading »

Local search? Who wants a bite of the apple?

By Lucy Langdon. Published March 10, 2008 in the Geo Location category

Users of google.co.uk will be familiar with the choice to trim results from ‘the web’ to ‘pages from the UK’ when searching. For those of you who aren’t, it’s just an option to refine your search from the google.co.uk page- Continue reading »

Video: Internationalisation or Internationalization – a tricky problem

By Will Critchlow. Published March 4, 2008 in the Geo Location category

To make up for not being in the newspapers on Sunday (after two weeks in a row), I had the great pleasure of appearing in an SEOmoz whiteboard ‘Friday’ (which wasn’t on Friday since they filmed loads at SMX last Continue reading »