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Internet Marketing Blog Posts by Will Scott 
Will Scott has been working online since 1994. From a time when most people hadn't even heard of the internet, Will was putting it to work for business. As a former Vice-President of Local Matters a decade ago Will Scott was at the forefront of Online Directories. From Directories to Small Businesses to White Label services for Directories, Will has been getting top of page rankings for clients since the turn of the century. Search Influence, Will Scott's current initiative is a scalable production house for Search Engine Optimization, Local SEO and Social Media for small and midsize businesses. Whether direct or through their white-label partners, Search Influence compete successfully and profitably online. Nothing gives Scott more joy than watching his team members grow into top-notch online marketers.
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2009 Local Search Ranking Factors
Local SEO consultant and Portland, OR web designer David Mihm has just published his second annual Local Search Ranking Factors Survey and for the second year running, Search Influence has been chosen to participate. This is the definitive document on Local Search Ranking. The study asked participants to rate 49 …
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Social Media Club of New Orleans 1st Meeting
I’ve posted pictures online of the first meeting of the Social Media Club, New Orleans. It was a good time and I’m hopeful to see it evolve into something worth doing. More from the Social Media Club of New Orleans: Social Media Club New Orleans | Facebook Official Blog of New Orleans …
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Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
I was reminded of this quote at least twice this week. Once by my CPA and once by my friend and Local Search Engine Optimization Expert, David Mihm
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delicious Links from Today 5/12/09
I have come to love >delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us which I liked more. For those of you not already familiar, delicious.com allows you to store all your bookmarks in one place organized by date with tags for secondary management. I was very fortunate in my reading today, thanks mostly to my …
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Twitter is a 1978 Fax Machine – Metcalfe’s Law and The Twitter Nielsen Data
First things first: this post is a bit of inside baseball – it may be conceptually interesting but it likely won’t help you market your business. What’s interesting to me about the recent Nielsen data regarding “Twitter Quitters” is that it makes a prediction based on current data without looking …
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WordCamp New Orleans – Speaking on WordPress SEO
I spent the last 2 days at a fantastic conference — the kind we need more of around here — WordCamp NOLA. Day 1 was a bit of a Social Media day, more introduction than implementation. Day 2 was, if I do say so myself, much more full of actionable …
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1000 Locksmiths in New York City
My friend Matt McGee sent an email last night in which he discovered a new feature of Google Maps. This makes for some very interesting results: Restaurants New Orleans David Mihm The Lazarus Project psp ‘s favorite: Locksmiths in New York City The Mission rip Notorious psp Must be a …
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NOMMUG Learns The Dark Secrets of SEO Voodoo
I have been meeting a bunch of great local people thanks to my association with our local Net Squared group Net2NO . (update: in town? come out tomorrow night: http://netsquared.meetup.com/27/) And one of them, David Robinson , who heads the local Adobe Multimedia Users Group asked me to speak to …
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Is Your Competition Winning in The Customer Engagement Cycle?
Holy cow it’s taken me a long time to write this! But that’s good news because I’ve been adding to my own understanding in the meantime. I have been intending to post on this since before my friend Chris Schultz wrote his “10 Tips for Launching Your Startup” in which …
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Barnacle SEO Hits The Big Time
I’m proud to announce that I have been asked to take part in a new Local Search News site http://www.localsearchnews.net/ (note: Local Search News is dead and we’ve moved the Barnacle SEO post to the Search Influence blog. And, my first post is live! In this post I argue that with …
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