Comments on: Our Four Hyperlocal Blogs

By: Explain This: One-Word Searches Up 17% in 2009

Explain This: One-Word Searches Up 17% in 2009 — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:08:32 +0000

[...] the search boxes on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The evidence I’ve seen in the analytics for the four hyperlocal blogs that my wife and I write support that: On our Richland Real Estate blog, for example, seven of the [...]

By: Pros & Cons: Big City Blogging vs. Small Town Blogging : HyperlocalBlogger

Pros & Cons: Big City Blogging vs. Small Town Blogging : HyperlocalBlogger — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:39:51 +0000

[...] One thing we’ve learned with our four local blogs, is that we can almost pick any term we want to rank for, write about it, and get search traffic [...]

By: How to Create a Local Newswire for your Blog : HyperlocalBlogger

How to Create a Local Newswire for your Blog : HyperlocalBlogger — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:57:20 +0000

[...] just this past week we added what I’ve called a “local newswire” to each of our four local blogs. Here’s a screenshot from the newswire on our Richland real estate [...]

By: Google Profile Business Cards Have Arrived | Matt McGee

Google Profile Business Cards Have Arrived | Matt McGee — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:45:37 +0000

[...] Google profile page. Plus, I already have biz cards for Small Business Search Marketing, the four local blogs that Cari and I write, and even @U2. It’s not like I’m desperate for more business [...]

By: 5 Types of Hyperlocal Bloggers

5 Types of Hyperlocal Bloggers — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:24:06 +0000

[...] blogger is using his/her blog to attract leads and/or customers. This is why my wife and I started four local blogs earlier this year. I suspect many local bloggers in this category are in the real estate industry, [...]

By: 8 Directory Submission Red Flags

8 Directory Submission Red Flags — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:41:06 +0000

[...] submission land lately, looking for quality directories where I can submit my wife’s and my four local blogs, which are new and in need of some basic [...]

By: 8 Wordpress Plugins for Hyperlocal Bloggers

8 Wordpress Plugins for Hyperlocal Bloggers — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:39:01 +0000

[...] I said above, I’ve been using Google Maps for Wordpress on a couple of our local blogs. The functionality is pretty simple: Into any post, you can insert a map from Google Maps showing [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:05:43 +0000

Thx Miriam — that one was Cari’s doing. She’s enjoying taking out the camera and doing the occasional photo gallery-type post.

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:43:56 +0000

Nice photos on the Art in the Park post, Matt. There’s a great visual appeal across all four of the blogs. Amazing what a little camera can do!
Miriam

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:55:13 +0000

Sigh … tell me about it. Actually, there’s a Pasco County in Florida, and an agent there owns the domain. Only I haven’t been able to buy the domain from him (yet). Someday.