one thing that separates us local bloggers from many other bloggers is that we absolutely must promote our local blogs offline in our local communities. if you expect to grow a local blog with nothing but online promotions i think youll be disappointed with your growth rate. in part five of my starting a hyperlocal blog series i mentioned that one of our failures was the local of......
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its actually been three weeks since ive done a blogging recap. lets see was sick two fridays ago and had company last friday. rather than recap three weeks ill stick with just the past seven days. west richland real estate blog yakima river flood warning issued sometimes i dont understand my neighbors kennewick real estate blog kennewick busines......
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in a blog post designed more to talk about finding a new cto the folks at outside.in also managed to share a couple stats about their growth our audience is up 400 year to date and growing. i assume aud ience822 1 means unique visitors or some similar metric. as ceo mark josephson says down below in the comments aud ience822 1 refers to unique user......
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nice to see a big juicy article about hyperlocal blogging on search engine land last week a business idea for joe the plumber hyperlocal blogging david mihm is the author and you may recognize him from his occasional appearances in the comments here on hyperlocal blogger. in his article david suggests local blogging as a good marketing strategy for the literal and figurative......
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i spent all day friday attending and speaking at a small business web marketing conference called learn about web . there were many things that stand out for me now 24 hours later but one is that smalllocal business owners appeared to be interested in learning about local blogging. the attendees were mostly small business ownersemployees and in terms of online marketing knowledge......
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everyblock is a very interesting player in the hyperlocal space and one that ill be watching in the future. if you blog locally about the cities that everyblock covers its also a site that you should submit your content to for possible distribution. more on that in a bit where many hyperlocal sites focus on townlevel or citylevel news everyblock focuses on what it......
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quick post to remind folks in the u.s. that right now offers a golden opportunity to get some great hyperlocal content on your blogs by interviewing the winning and maybe even the losing candidates from this weeks elections. catch the winners soon while theyre still basking in the glow of winning the election and anxious to pleasereach out to their constituent......
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this has been a lost week in so many ways. not a bad week just lost. one of those weeks where you dont get done anything you wanted to get done. on the bright side ive been discovering a bunch of new hyperlocaltargeted blogs some about blogging others just about the industry in general. im going to start posting the occasional recap of interesting thi......
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so my u2 book is now in stores in the uk and available on amazon uk. early reviews are superb. ive read stories about firsttime authors who get addicted to viewing their books sales page on amazon to see where it ranks on the sales charts. i always thought those people needed to get a life. and now im one of them its incredibly addicting and lets leave......
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quick post here im a big believer in learning from the successes and failures of others so eric blackwells recent post on the bloodhound real estate blog caught my eye. its about some creative things he and some friendsassociates are doing to develop their local blogs. ill let you read the blog post for the specific examples but heres th......
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peter krasilovsky has a fairly brief interview with topix ceo chris tolles about how the site has been remade over the years from a pure news aggregator into a local portal site. they talk about the addition of business listings from infousa and classifieds and tolles shares some interesting stats about the sites growth. heres one quote from tolles that jumps out ......
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hi hyperlocal blogger readers im curious to know how do you blog more often than not i use a text editor to write my blog posts and then cut and paste it into wordpress for publishing. do you use microsoft word to write your blog posts do you go straight to your wordpress new post screen and start writing or whatever blogging platform youre on ......
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as hyperlocal blogging grows we can expect more people to wonder can i do this am i cut out to be a good local blogger while i dont think theres a formula or recipe for local blogging success i do think there are some personality traits that will make you more likely to succeed. ill share those below along with a couple traits i think are unnecessary. and pleas......
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if youre a wordpress blogger and youre interested in having your blog content be customized for display on the iphone and ipod touch youll want to use this plugin wptouch wordpress on the iphone wptouch creates a custom theme for your blog thats only shown to iphone and ipod touch users. and the theme has a few tweaks you can make too. yes the iphone and ip......
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thats the question outside.in is trying to answer recently. theyve been doing a series of posts on the company blog called department of blogiology which takes one city at a time and features the best blogs and most active blogging neighborhoods in the city. its really terrific material and a great way to learn about some new local blogs in other parts of th......
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google made some pretty big news this week with the announcement of a new home page a new approach really for google blog search . in a nutshell google has added a bunch of categories in a leftside column and now blog posts are clustered together by subject. its very much like google news search and not unlike sites like techmeme that provide quick access to a va......
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one of the more enjoyable interviews ive ever done happened on friday when justin smith of searching solutions rang me up to talk about hyperlocal blogging. what made it fun for me is that justin is a good interviewer very conversational and relaxed. it was like we were two guys sitting at a table shooting the breeze. the fact that he and i have similar backgrounds in working with s......
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i was on the road for most of the week but managed to write a bunch before i left and then scheduled them for posting while i was gone. and even started on some new posts while on the airplanes too. u2diary.com book sample three days in february 2002 u2 blog edun teams up with cbs survivor hyperlocal blogger why its been so quiet around here small business search mark......
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click here to listen to this podcast i was very fortunate today to be able to speak with matt mcgee a seo industry expert that writes primarily about small business and local search marketing topics. matts most well known blog is the small business search marketing blog but he also writes on a blog called hyper local blogger that gives tips on marketing smaller niche blog......
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one because ive spent most of this week at the small business marketing unleashed conference in columbus where i gave three presentations over two days. one of my goals for 2009 is to successfully pitch one of the marketing conferences on the idea of doing a presentation about local blogging. cross your fingers for me. two because im going through some career changes. as......
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struggling to beat out your competitors on a national scale is tough to do taking them on locally aint so tough you just have to know what to do. optimizing your content but especially the markup of your page is crucial to succeeding in dominating your local search results. georss adding semantics to your page puts you leaps and bounds ahead of your competition in most c......
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it finally hit me that u2a diary is going to be released like really soon . so much of my free time this week was spent blogging about that and doing things to help promote the book. and theres going to be more of the same in the coming weeks. u2diary.com u2a diary featured in italy follow u2a diary on facebook where to buy u2 a diary we have a release date k......
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...up on open forum about small business blogging using his local hardware store as a case study.a if this is a topic of interest to you his post is a must read. a few days ago i stumbled across hyperlocal blogger.co m a blog about hyperlocal blogging very meta i know.a its written by matt mcgee who is using hyperlocal blogging to help his wifes real estate business.a matt has been writing ...
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lets continue the adding maps to your hyperlocal blog theme on hyperlocal blogger.co m which is almost all ive been writing about lately it seems. the latest entry into this arena is outside.in which today launched storymaps a widget that maps the locations youve been writing about recently on your local blog. to use storymaps youll obviously ......
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