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Dennis Yu: local online marketing, facebook advertising, internet guru Archives: December 2009

26 December 2009

I play video games for a living now– sorta

Well, perhaps not traditional video games, such as Pac Man or Space Invaders– I’m talking about how every website is now incorporating game dynamics. But if you consider how Facebook, LinkedIn, FourSquare, MerchantCircle, Twitter, Farmville, or other sites operate, according to…

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25 December 2009

Yodle CEO, Court Cunningham, talks to Borrell Associates about Local

It’s all about finding quality people—that’s what Court Cunningham says is the biggest challenge for Yodle, the local lead gen of which he’s CEO.  You need skilled people to both bring in new clients and set up campaigns—for them,…

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25 December 2009

Google’s fabulous Christmas Gift to BlitzLocal

Sure, people are complaining about how Google gave $20MM to charities on our behalf, instead of giving us trinkets this year– whether they be a photo viewer, Flip video, or whatever.  But Google gave us some stuff that

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21 December 2009

Google AdWords Bid Simulator– observations

 The new Bid Simulator, which you’ll see in the keywords tab, forecasts how many clicks and impressions you’ll see at different bid levels.  It only shows the simulator for some of the keywords– not sure what logic is used to…

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17 December 2009

Doing cosmetic surgery on a cosmetic surgeon– what we learned in 2009

Tonight, I had dinner with Dr. David Verebelyi, Chief of Laser Surgery for the Colorado Center for PhotoMedicine.  They do liposuction in Denver, laser hair removal, and…

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16 December 2009

This Facebook personalized ad nearly made me fall out of my chair

I look at ads all day– it’s part of my job. I even go out of my way to click on ads to see what competitors are doing.  So rarely am I surprised. But today I saw this:

  Yes, it’s…

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12 December 2009

Blogging is as Simple as Pulling your Head out of your Ass

This is a guest post by Keith Wilcox

 

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11 December 2009

Albertsons’ botched local listings– are you making this mistake, too?

I wanted to know whether Albertsons was still open, so I did a Google Search.  Here are the results:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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7 December 2009

One mistake in organic search you’re probably making

For the last year, Google has been showing personalized search results– did you know that if you are logged in versus not, you’ll often see different search results?  Thus, you may be thinking that you rank highly on a search…

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