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	<title>Mihmorandum: Local SEO + Web Design</title>
	
	<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog</link>
	<description>David is a freelance designer who creates search-friendly websites for clients throughout the Western United States.  David has dabbled in web design since the late 1990's and has designed on a professional basis since January 2001.  Contact him at (503) 560-2755 or davidmihm@gmail.com.</description>
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		<title>More on the Possible Effects of Call-Tracking in Local Search</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/smbiz/more-call-tracking-local-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Small Biz Considerations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many readers probably know, Telmetrics president Bill Dinan responded to my original Search Engine Land column about call-tracking last week.  Greg Sterling was kind enough to let me post a response to Bill's response on his blog this week.

Please check it out &#038; let me know your thoughts either in the comments area on Greg's blog, or on this post.]]></description>
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		<title>Google Place Pages Show Prominent Snippets of Consumer Sentiment</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/google-places-pages-sentiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/google-places-pages-sentiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps appears to have introduced another innovation to their interface recently: Zagat-like review snippets on Place Pages for individual businesses.  ]]></description>
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		<title>My Thoughts on Google Local Listing Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/google-local-listing-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/google-local-listing-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s SMX East recap, Google announced a new ad format&#8211;Local Listing Ads&#8211;on Monday afternoon.  Both Greg Sterling and Mike Blumenthal have written fairly in-depth summaries of what the ads entail but I&#8217;ll try to lay out the highlights below:

Only businesses with claimed LBC listings are eligible to participate.
The landing page MUST [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMX East Local Items of Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/uncategorized/smx-east-2009-local-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/uncategorized/smx-east-2009-local-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What this post lacks in coherence it will make up for in speed :)  Below are some of the items I found most interesting during my three days in New York this week:
Ranking Tactics for Local Search
It was truly an honor to be on a panel with Mike Blumenthal, Mary Bowling, Will Scott, and Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New TMP (15miles) / Comscore Study on Local Search</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/tmp-comscore-local-search-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/tmp-comscore-local-search-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TMP &#38; Comscore&#8217;s annual study of the Local Business space was published this morning, and hot off the presses, Gregg Stewart, the President of TMP&#8217;s new Interactive wing called 15miles, shared the initial results with those of us in attendance at SMX East.  There wasn&#8217;t really anything earth-shattering, but some interesting data came out nonetheless.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy the Limited Edition SMX East 2009 T-Shirt</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/for-fun/smx-east-t-shirt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/for-fun/smx-east-t-shirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[For Fun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The always-enterprising Mike Blumenthal has started a campaign (of which I had no prior knowledge and am more than a little embarrassed by) to raise money for a Google Maps customer service team.
Of course, in the more-than-likely event that Google eschews our generosity, all funds will be donated to a very worthy cause: a mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links of Local Interest, Volume 9B</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/vol-9b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/vol-9b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Links of Local Interest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A continuation of some of the most important stories in the Local Search world from August and September.]]></description>
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		<title>Links of Local Interest, Volume 9A</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/vol-9a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seo/vol-9a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Links of Local Interest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Local SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been quite a while since I posted anything of real value to readers (unless you somehow derived value from my last post on random vanity searching), so I hope to rectify that situation this week with some more content-based posts.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Local SEO Vanity Search</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/for-fun/ultimate-vanity-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/for-fun/ultimate-vanity-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[For Fun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Andrew Shotland, whose great writing and insightful tips (along with a keyword-rich domain name) have earned him not only a #1 ranking for all kinds of Local-related searches including this one&#8230;I believe that what I am about to share with you is more impressive than even his dominance of search engine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMB’s, Local SEO’s Lose Their Best Friend at Google Maps</title>
		<link>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/mapsguidejen-leaves-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/mapsguidejen-leaves-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mihm</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more important news items of the Local Search Summit in San Jose will actually happen Friday in Mountain View.
It will be the last day at Google for Jen Chin, a.k.a. MapsGuideJen.  She&#8217;s leaving the smog and congestion of the South Bay for Graduate School in Environmental Management at a prestigious university on the East [...]]]></description>
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