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		<title>Group Buying Promotion Closes The Butchers on Yonge Street…Temporarily</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetReader Kate Raynes-Goldie left this comment on my post The Butchers on Yonge Street: Group Buying Blowback?: The deal that broke north american records is now officially a scam: the butchers have closed their doors indefinitely, for &#8220;renovations&#8221;: http://www.thebutchersorganic.com/ As you can see from Kate&#8217;s comment and my post, a lot of vocal people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Places Cuts The Crap With A Hand Job…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Place Pages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetFrom Mike&#8217;s post today entitled Some Days Are Shittier Than Others: Someone uploaded pictures of poo on my business listing and I can’t get them off!!! Fortunately Google took notice and brought out the pooper scooper. Of course this probably only happened because Mike&#8217;s post brought it to GOOG&#8217;s attention which will likely leave a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotted in the Wild: Google Up/Down SERP Arrows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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Anyone else seeing these?  Kind of useless but nice.

       
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		<title>Milanoo Paid Links: Hey VCs, Need Some SEO Due Diligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ceo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Milanoo, a Sequoia-backed start-up, just got outed for using paid links to scam Google&#8217;s rankings.  I have done a fair amount of SEO work for venture-backed start-ups and this event has convinced me more than ever that smart VCs should be conducting SEO due diligence on potential portfolio companies both pre- and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebay’s Local Strategy</title>
		<link>http://thesamschwartz.com/609/ebay%e2%80%99s-local-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 21:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.localseoguide.com/?p=3891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leena Rao tries to make sense of Ebay&#8217;s recent acquisitions: t’s no secret that eBay has been heavily investing in a local commerce strategy. The central core of this is trying to capitalize on the $917 million online-to-offline buying market, which Forrester estimates will eventually reach $1.3 trillion (although this number seems low) and account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Places Rich Snippets Finally Working?</title>
		<link>http://thesamschwartz.com/636/google-places-rich-snippets-finally-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Place Pages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI have been hearing reports from a variety of sources that over the past few days more rich snippets have started to show up in Google Places. Using rich snippets on your site to get your content into Place Pages has been a hit-or-miss affair &#8211; mostly miss.  At SMXWest, Google&#8217;s Carter Maslan told me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Google Maps Getting Tighter Radii?</title>
		<link>http://thesamschwartz.com/669/are-google-maps-getting-tighter-radii/</link>
		<comments>http://thesamschwartz.com/669/are-google-maps-getting-tighter-radii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Browsers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blumenthal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Restaurants]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.localseoguide.com/?p=3962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI just wanted to use &#8220;radii&#8221; in a headline&#8230; Mike Blumenthal tweeted yesterdat that he thought the radii of the Google map for various local queries had gotten smaller. To me it seemed like the radii hadn&#8217;t changed much but the map pins had gotten bigger so I decided to compare the map that displayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Places MisPlaces New Review Feeds</title>
		<link>http://thesamschwartz.com/631/google-places-misplaces-new-review-feeds/</link>
		<comments>http://thesamschwartz.com/631/google-places-misplaces-new-review-feeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Maps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetMike Blumenthal has some concerns re Google Places&#8217; new user review feeds: When was the last time you heard a reviewer ask for an RSS feed of their reviews? Well maybe some reviewer some place did… but then I suggest you follow Google&#8217;s instructions and go find it. Instead of attaching it to the obvious place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Thoughts on Local Search Ranking Factors</title>
		<link>http://thesamschwartz.com/678/more-thoughts-on-local-search-ranking-factors/</link>
		<comments>http://thesamschwartz.com/678/more-thoughts-on-local-search-ranking-factors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNyagoslav Zhekov has been adding some thoughtful comments to the blog as of late and I thought this post on his take on the Local Search Ranking Factors was worth a read.

       
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		<title>Are You Putting Your Google Winnings in the Bank?</title>
		<link>http://thesamschwartz.com/676/are-you-putting-your-google-winnings-in-the-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://thesamschwartz.com/676/are-you-putting-your-google-winnings-in-the-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Shotland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetHad an interesting discussion last week with the CEO of a startup that was getting a lot of traffic from Google. His board had been encouraging him to invest in scaling up the business faster. His strategy had been to pursue slower growth so that he always had enough cash in the bank in case [...]]]></description>
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