How To Rank Higher In Google Local

Local search is a hot topic at the moment and now the focus is moving beyond just getting a local listing for your business. With major search engines like Google and Yahoo! displaying local listings in the main search results, the challenge for businesses is to get their local listing ranking above competitors. Below I look at some of the factors that can help your…

Google Gives JetBlue In-Flight Tracking

Google Maps this.  Google Maps that.  The service has been in the news again and again over the past few weeks, and it would be enough to make you sick - except that most of what’s happening is pretty cool.  The latest development - a partnership between Google Maps and JetBlue Airways - meets the same standard.

New AT&T Same As The Old AT&T

AT&T chief Ed Whitacre is out, retired, ready to sit back and enjoy his golden (and I mean golden) years. As of yesterday, he's replaced by SBC front-man Randall Stephenson, a 25-year company man, and a man after Whitacre's own heart.

SMX Day 1: Meet Satya Nadella Of Microsoft

Danny Sullivan introduced keynote speaker, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Corporate VP, Search & Advertising Platform Group, as a 15 year old. To which the calm man only smiled. Who would have thought the man would look more at ease as more questions fired his way.

SMX Day 1: Duplicate Content Summit

Moderated by event organizer Danny Sullivan he gave a brief introduction of the panelists (Vanessa Fox (Google), Amit Kumar (Yahoo! Search), and Peter Linsley (Ask.com), and Eytan Seidman (Microsoft), like the geeks in the room needed to be reminded.