Search Commander Blog - Scott Hendison

Local Search – Mistake or Cleverness?

Scott — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:32:17 +0000

Doing a little bit if research, I noticed what I thought was odd behavior in Google local, taking me to directories instead of to a business, so I immediately jumped to a conclusion (imagine that!) and Twittered about it, pinging @davidmihm and @chiropractic Michael looked into it… and David thought it was odd too, so [...]

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Local Search for Beginners – Feb 16th 2012

Scott — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:37:00 +0000

My next internet marketing session is geared towards local businesses, (sign up here) and is specifically focused on beginners who don’t have technical skills. Web designers who are not SEO’s are also welcome. I suppose if you are an long time SEO that has never delved into the changes in local search before, you’ll also [...]

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New Rules of SEO in 2012 – Meeting January 19th

Scott — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:07:22 +0000

I’m happy to announce that I’m running my own Meetup groups for 2012, and my first event has now been scheduled for January 19th, at the Convention Center Red Lion Inn. Why? Over the past few years, I’ve spoken on more panels and given more presentations than I can count. I’ve presented to multiple private [...]

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Download My WordPress SEO Settings

Scott — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:36:36 +0000

One of the things I like most about the WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast is that once you have the settings tweaked the way you want them, you can export, then import them elsewhere. At Pubcon last month, I gave my presentation on exactly how I like to use that plugin, and why I make [...]

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Three Sessions at Pubcon Vegas 2011

Scott — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:39:40 +0000

The oldest, largest, and arguably best internet marketing conference will take place in Las Vegas on November 8th, 9th and 10th, 2011, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The session grid is huge, with 9 sessions running concurrently at most times, and this year I’m proud to have been selected to appear in three sessions, [...]

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How to Get Fake Reviews

Scott — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:34:27 +0000

You MUST know that Google can instantly tell whether a certain Google user who just left a review is a “real” user or not, right? Google has access to everything a user does from their web browsing history to their Gmail habits, and they have for years. They even know where you live, so creating [...]

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WordPress Plugins That Don’t Exist – Yet

Scott — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:32:42 +0000

This post has been several years in the making, because since 2007, as fast as I’ve written things down in my notes, the WordPress plugins keep getting built. Sometimes we build them ourselves, as was the case with my desire to have a WordPress plugin that sets everything up with one click, or in other [...]

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Speaking at Bend WebCam 2011

Scott — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:22:30 +0000

It was an honor to be asked to speak this year at WebCam – Central Oregon’s web and creative marketing conference, coming up on September 29 and 30th. This will be the third annual conference, and it’s gotten rave reviews for the past two years. The agenda and list of speakers is pretty impressive, not [...]

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Google Boost Is Now AdWords Express

Scott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:15:49 +0000

It looks like Google Boost has undergone a name change to AdWords Express, but it appears everything else has remained the same. (update 7/26 – Google just announced the change) This morning while logging in to a client’s Google Places account, instead of seeing “create a Boost ad” or “See my Boost Dashboard” I’m seeing [...]

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Google Loves a Good Scrape

Scott — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:47:45 +0000

If you look at the Wikipedia definition of a scraper website, it says “A scraper site is a spam website that copies all of its content from other websites”. Well Google has a new project, that in my opinion, is basically just a well done Google scraper. Over the past dozen years or so, the [...]

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