Shownotes Searchcowboys on Webmasterradio - episode 20

Wed 6 January 2010 10:00, Bas van den Beld

Bas and Roy this week opened the new years with a special guest: Lisa Myers. They discussed several topics like the name SEO, which is not sufficient anymore, Pagerank and local maps hijacking issues.

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Shownotes Episode 20 - January 5th 2010

1st part:
Happy New Year!!

Google Nexus
Today Google announced the Nexus, it's not available in Europe yet, but will be, with Vodafone.

Links:
http://searchengineland.com/liveblogging-the-google-nexus-one-phone-launch-32853

2010 Predictions
Last week we discussed the predictions of the bloggers of Searchcowboys. Lisa only had one sentence: “SEO will still be valuable.” She explained a little more this time :).

The discussion went to the use of the name "SEO" it is more than just SEO.

Links:
http://www.searchcowboys.com/seo/1410
http://www.searchcowboys.com/seo/1411
http://www.searchcowboys.com/seo/1412

2nd part:

Pagerank update: dead or not?
Pagerank got updated again. What is the status of Pagerank? Should we care?

Links:
http://www.searchcowboys.com/google/1416

Google Local Business hijjacking

Lisa ran into some hijjacking issues this week. Their ad was hijacked and the web address was changed. She tells us how she fixed it and now we have to wait for Google to prevent it the next time.

3rd part:

Google doesn't like local SEO?
Google decided to not show a local pack for queries that are related to SEO or web design and include a local qualifier. Is that something which makes sense?

Links:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021439.html
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=1f506c6b4fd31f70&hl=en#all

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Comments (2)

- Lisa Myers
- [website]
Really enjoyed being on the show last night guys. Great conversation!

Wo 6 jan 2010, 11:28
- Lisa Myers
- [website]
Oh and with regards to the Google Local business listing hijacking issues, I wrote a blogpost on SEOChicks describing the problem and solution in full http://www.seo-chicks.com/1363/the-local-file-google-local-business-hijack...

Vr 8 jan 2010, 17:57

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