Welcome SearchFest Attendees
If you’re reading this while at the SearchFest conference, a big welcome to you. Thanks for visiting HyperlocalBlogger.com. In my presentation, I mention the four real estate blogs that my wife and I co-author, but I don’t provide the URLs. If you’re looking for those and want to check them out after the session, here are the links:
Richland Real Estate Blog
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Pasco Real Estate Blog
West Richland Real Estate Blog
The individual blog posts I referenced in the presentation are these (in order):
Richland Circuit City = A Zoo
Leann Rimes coming to TRAC
George Prout Pool Closing Soon for the Summer
Richland Concert Series at John Dam Park
If you have any questions or feedback about my presentation or the session in general, feel free to leave a comment below. There’s also a Contact button at the top of the page. I’d love to hear from you!
Welcome SMX West attendees
If you’re reading this at the SMX West conference, a big welcome to you. Thanks for visiting HyperlocalBlogger.com. In my presentation, I mention the four real estate blogs that my wife and I co-author, but I don’t provide the URLs. If you’re looking for those and want to check them out after the session, here are the links:
Richland Real Estate Blog
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Pasco Real Estate Blog
West Richland Real Estate Blog
The individual blog posts I referenced in the presentation are these (in order):
Richland Circuit City = A Zoo
Leann Rimes coming to TRAC
George Prout Pool Closing Soon for the Summer
Richland Concert Series at John Dam Park
If you have any questions or feedback about my presentation or the session in general, there’s a Contact button at the top of the page. I’d love to hear from you!
What Would You Say About Hyperlocal Blogging?
This is cool: In addition to coordinating and moderating three sessions at next month’s SMX West conference, I’m going to present on the Local Search Marketing Tactics panel … about hyperlocal blogging.
To my knowledge, this will be the first time anyone’s given a presentation on local blogging at a major search marketing conference. (I’ve certainly never heard it talked about at the ones I’ve been to since 2006.)
That panel is listed as an expert-level session, but I suspect that hyperlocal blogging as a concept will be new to most of the attendees, maybe all of them. So, my question to you is this:
What would you say about hyperlocal blogging in an educational setting like that?
The comments are open, and your ideas will be appreciated. 
Top 5 Hyperlocal Blogger Posts of 2008
I was just working on year-in-review post over at my primary blog, Small Business Search Marketing, and decided to take a quick look at what Google Analytics says are the most popular posts here on Hyperlocal Blogger since the August 10, 2008, launch date. If you’re curious, here are the top five:
1.) MapQuest Wants Your Local Content
2.) Planning A Hyperlocal Blog Strategy
3.) Starting a Hyperlocal Blog: The Series
4.) 8 Wordpress Plugins for Hyperlocal Bloggers
5.) Setting Up a Hyperlocal Blog (or Four)
Can’t say I’m surprised that three of the five posts are from the 5-part “starting a hyperlocal blog” series; they have the benefit of age and a lot of promotion on my part to get some eyeballs when the blog was new.
Feel free to share your most popular blog posts in the comments, or if you have a similar post on your blog, just link to it so we can check it out.
An Invite to Guest Bloggers
I was just reading and replying to a couple greeat comments that were left today (from Scott Hastings and Steve Sherron), and a light bulb came off over my head:
It’s time to invite other local bloggers to write posts here on Hyperlocal Blogger.
I’ve said all along that I’m here to learn from others as much as to share what I’ve learned, so it makes sense to open the door to guest bloggers. I’d be interested in publishing just about anything that falls under the tagline/motto of this blog: “Tips and discussion for local bloggers.” As I said in my reply to Steve, a guest post could be about “your experiences starting a local blog, successes, failures, tips, you name it.”
If you’re interested in writing a guest post for this blog, please use the brand new Contact Me page, just created today for this purpose.
Happy New Year to all local bloggers!
Talking Local Blogs with Justin Smith
One of the more enjoyable interviews I’ve ever done happened on Friday when Justin Smith of Searching Solutions rang me up to talk about hyperlocal blogging. What made it fun for me is that Justin is a good interviewer — very conversational and relaxed. It was like we were two guys sitting at a table shooting the breeze. The fact that he and I have similar backgrounds in working with small businesses, helping people setup and launch blogs, even working with real estate clients — that made it all the better.
Here’s the link: Podcast: Matt McGee From Small Business Search Marketing
It runs about 20 minutes (I’m Irish, what can I say? We like to talk.) and you can either listen right from the web page or look for the DOWNLOAD link and grab it that way.
If you’ve been reading HyperlocalBlogger.com all along, I’m not sure you’ll gain much from it, but I’m hopeful that Justin’s readers and listeners — who might be new to the idea of local blogging — will come away with something to think about.
Great thanks to Justin for the enjoyable conversation!
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