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Andy McIlwain

Andy McIlwain

I’m a 20-some web geek, new media fanatic, social web evangelist, amateur cartoonist and raging gamer. I work with SEO and web marketing.
Blogging or Social Networking: Which is Better? | 10e20 - http://www.10e20.com/blog...
"Obviously, if you can handle running a blog and social networking, the easy answer is “both,” but there are situations where one is more suitable than the other." - Andy McIlwain
Five Tips To Avoid Getting Burned When Starting Social Media Campaigns - http://searchengineland.com/five-ti...
Search Engine Land: "If you’re not already tapping into social media, you should, as the channel offers brands tremendous opportunities to foster community and engagement. But many marketers jump into social media efforts with little more than a “cool” idea. This is a mistake." - Andy McIlwain
Why We Don't Do SEO For You - http://www.rustybrick.com/no-seo-...
Barry Schwartz: "Why don't we offer SEO services? I have been asked this question time and time again. It is not like I don't know a thing or two about the topic. Hint: Read my bio. So why don't we offer typical SEO services? A few reasons..." - Andy McIlwain
Thoughts On Web Developers, SEO & Reputation Problems - http://searchengineland.com/thought...
From Danny Sullivan: "Just as SEO does not equal spam, it also does not equal just making sure your web pages are search engine friendly. SEO these days also covers things like video search, local search and blog search." - Andy McIlwain
SEOmoz | What Makes a Link Worthy Post - Part 1 - http://www.seomoz.org/blog...
What Is A QR Code And Why Do You Need One? - http://searchengineland.com/what-is...
We all know that one of the keys to great SEO is making sure you keep your website updated, new and fresh. Weather you do this with a blog, or you change your homepage with new offers, coupons or new products, it serves to show Google that your site is ‘alive’. For many small businesses in particular, this is a real challenge. - Andy McIlwain
Searching For Small Businesses, Coming Up Frustrated - http://searchengineland.com/searchi...
Search is where the customers are. Surely every business owner, large or small, understands by now the importance of appearing before these customers in search. Surely. But as I’ve looked for local businesses to help with my needs after a recent move, I’ve had a personal reminder of just how far behind some companies remain. - Andy McIlwain
SEO FAQ That’s Not From The Land Of Unicorns - http://searchengineland.com/seo-faq...
Search engines, and SEO today, aren’t just about web pages. That’s why when Derek rants that SEO is just some web developer’s job, he exposes a real lack of knowledge of the current state of SEO itself. In turn, frankly, he’s not giving out good advice. - Andy McIlwain
3 Lessons Learned From Successful Corporate Blogging - http://searchengineland.com/3-lesso...
Now there is a way for local business owners to get a better understanding of how customers are finding their business. Did they search for "new car" or "test drive" to get to the listing for the showroom? What happens to traffic to the new showroom when your client starts advertising in the local paper? Do they drive miles for your client’s service? With this information, you'd be able to make better informed planning decisions on how to drive more traffic to your client’s listing and attract more customers. - Andy McIlwain
Marchex Releases Powerful SMB Reputation Management Tool With “Search Inside” - http://searchengineland.com/marchex...
Large corporations have had various “buzz tracking” tools at their disposal to monitor “brand chatter” but these have not been available for SMBs. Marchex has now created a comprehensive reputation management tool aimed at the SMB market that enables monitoring of virtually everything being said about them online via a single dashboard. - Andy McIlwain
Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists - http://powazek.com/posts/2090
Study: 54 Percent of Companies Ban Facebook, Twitter at Work | Epicenter | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/epicent...
According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say they’ve banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, while on the job. The study, released today, also found that 19 percent of companies allow social networking use only for business purposes, while 16 percent allow limited personal use. - Andy McIlwain
Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content. So Why Doesn't He Stop Them? - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.com - http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs...
Instead of stealing, I would call this something else: a free service that drives lots of readers to news Web sites that wouldn't get nearly as much traffic, if any at all, if Google didn't link to their sites for free. That may not be as pithy as crying "thief!" But it has the advantage of being true. - Andy McIlwain
Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You - Your Privacy Is An Illusion - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5378101...
Google takes pride in its ability to retain data; Sergey Brin has an op-ed in the New York Times today holding Google servers up as more durable than the ancient Library at Alexandria. Meanwhile, every police department and district attorney's office in the country knows they can extract valuable data from the company. - Andy McIlwain
Citibank Survey Reveals Small Businesses Not Joining Social Media Conversation - Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/news...
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Not Seen as Helpful to Build Small Businesses - Small Businesses Rely on Search Engines Over Social Media - Andy McIlwain
Twitter Search Tools: Five You Should Know - http://searchengineland.com/five-tw...
You’ll learn how to search the bios of other Twitter users, how to search deeper into Twitter’s archives, and how to find jobs advertised on Twitter. - Andy McIlwain
Google Custom Maps: A Goldmine For Local Businesses - http://searchengineland.com/google-...
If you’ve ever wished that you could engineer the Google Maps interface to highlight and display your local content, My Maps could be something of a dream-come-true. - Andy McIlwain
Google Custom Maps: A Goldmine For Local Businesses http://searchengineland.com/google-... (Happy to see this post. I love to see support for local business.)
Just blogged:: Ideas: Take note with Google Tasks! http://www.andymci.com/2009...
Ideas: Take note with Google Tasks! - http://www.andymci.com/2009...
Just blogged:: SEO: Strategic Thinking & Planning http://www.andymci.com/2009...
Listening to the latest episode of Search Engine (http://feeds.tvo.org/tvo...) and the CRTC interview. The ambiguity of the CRTC boggles my mind.
Listening to the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation (@mitchjoel). Cracking open the book as soon as I finish Crush It (@garyvee)
RT @limestonetweets: The next LNMG meetup in 2 wks. Mon. Nov. 15, 7:00 p.m. @coffeeco, Kingston Centre! Watch www.lnmg.ca for more details.
Using dual 21" LCD's at work. So much nicer than my dual 19" setup at home. Too bad I can't swap. What do you folks use?
RT @widgetbox: internet web addresses to now include non-Latin alphabets like Chinese, Arabic, and Russian characters http://www.switched.com/2009...
@sonnygill: "Ever write an entire post and then wonder if you should even publish it?" Happens all the time. You're definitely not alone.
RT @andybeal: WordPress 2 hits the iPhone App Store - http://www.macworld.com/article... (Nice! Downloading now.)
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