2016 IndieCommerce Institute Local Search PresentationMax Thomas
Presentation I gave discussing local search optimization for local bookshops. I was was the guest speaker at the American Booksellers Association's IndieCommerce Institute in Chicago on May 10th 2016. For more information on IndieCommerce for bookshops, please visit bookweb.org
SEO for Startups from #SecretSauce 2016 at HackneyMax Thomas
Here's my presentation on SEO basics for startups that I recently gave at #SecretSauce 2016 at Hackney as part of London Technology Week. A great time and an amazing group of entrepreneurial and inspiring people.
Presented at the Austin SEM Meetup by Laura and Adam Alter. www.seo.meetup.com/107
References:
http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/
http://blog.kelseygroup.com/
http://www.localseoguide.com/
http://www.localpoint.com/
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/
http://blumenthals.com/blog
http://stephenespinosa.com/
http://gesterling.wordpress.com/
http://www.convertoffline.com/
For many small business owners, local SEO can be a confusing and overwhelming challenge on your website. In this edition Portent's monthly webinar series, you'll learn how to maximize your success as a small business against the competition in your area and industry.
Portent's Director of SEO, Josh Patrice, will walk through the role local directories play, how to use social media to your advantage, the on-site factors to pay attention to, and much more. Whether you run a brick-and-mortar shop or do business through an ecommerce website, this webinar is for you.
To watch the video and find other Portent webinars, visit the blog: http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/smb-seo-tips-video.htm
Presentation to small local businesses in and around Etchingham on the topic of social,local,mobile marketing all facilitated by the growth in cloud services.
Google Local Listing Simplified - Ron Edrote (SEO Local Lister | SEO Cagayan ...Ron Edrote
This Presentation is How to list your business in Google places that visible from google search engine ang mobile geo application. Hello I am Ron Edrote a SEO Local Lister Cebu City. I learn SEO in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. Any comments or suggestion i appreciate it.
Up Close With Google Place Pages - Do Directories Really Matter For Local Sea...Max Thomas
My presentation from SMX West 2011 in which some detailed research appears to reveal that directories may not have as direct an impact on map rankings as might seem. Inbound links and anchor text seem to carry a lot of weight in regard to rankings. Please note that this presentation and data are from March 2011. Google Places has been updating its algorithm noticeably over the past year. Be sure to stay on top of the latest changes.
2016 IndieCommerce Institute Local Search PresentationMax Thomas
Presentation I gave discussing local search optimization for local bookshops. I was was the guest speaker at the American Booksellers Association's IndieCommerce Institute in Chicago on May 10th 2016. For more information on IndieCommerce for bookshops, please visit bookweb.org
SEO for Startups from #SecretSauce 2016 at HackneyMax Thomas
Here's my presentation on SEO basics for startups that I recently gave at #SecretSauce 2016 at Hackney as part of London Technology Week. A great time and an amazing group of entrepreneurial and inspiring people.
Presented at the Austin SEM Meetup by Laura and Adam Alter. www.seo.meetup.com/107
References:
http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/
http://blog.kelseygroup.com/
http://www.localseoguide.com/
http://www.localpoint.com/
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/
http://blumenthals.com/blog
http://stephenespinosa.com/
http://gesterling.wordpress.com/
http://www.convertoffline.com/
For many small business owners, local SEO can be a confusing and overwhelming challenge on your website. In this edition Portent's monthly webinar series, you'll learn how to maximize your success as a small business against the competition in your area and industry.
Portent's Director of SEO, Josh Patrice, will walk through the role local directories play, how to use social media to your advantage, the on-site factors to pay attention to, and much more. Whether you run a brick-and-mortar shop or do business through an ecommerce website, this webinar is for you.
To watch the video and find other Portent webinars, visit the blog: http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/smb-seo-tips-video.htm
Presentation to small local businesses in and around Etchingham on the topic of social,local,mobile marketing all facilitated by the growth in cloud services.
Google Local Listing Simplified - Ron Edrote (SEO Local Lister | SEO Cagayan ...Ron Edrote
This Presentation is How to list your business in Google places that visible from google search engine ang mobile geo application. Hello I am Ron Edrote a SEO Local Lister Cebu City. I learn SEO in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. Any comments or suggestion i appreciate it.
Up Close With Google Place Pages - Do Directories Really Matter For Local Sea...Max Thomas
My presentation from SMX West 2011 in which some detailed research appears to reveal that directories may not have as direct an impact on map rankings as might seem. Inbound links and anchor text seem to carry a lot of weight in regard to rankings. Please note that this presentation and data are from March 2011. Google Places has been updating its algorithm noticeably over the past year. Be sure to stay on top of the latest changes.
Learn about the steps that accountants, CPAs and accounting marketers can take to develop their local SEO including free assessment tools to see where to get started.
What PPC Can Steal from SEO - given at State of Search 2013, through DFWSEM, Dallas, TX. November 18, 2013
Learn some tips and tricks that paid search can borrow from the SEO industry tools.
Local SEO presentation at Pubcon Austin 2018. In this presentation we examine the current status of Local Search and the Local Search as well as take a peak at what the future might hold.
Topic: Catch The Pigeon – Local SEO in 2015
- What was the Pigeon update and what has changed
- How to make sure you have optimised for Local SEO
- The importance of Google My Business and how to create a good profile
- Essential local tactics that you can no longer ignore
- Making sure you don’t miss your Mobile audience
Optimizing for Local Search for RV DealersTimothy Resnik
With increased competition squeezing traditional market areas, it is becoming increasingly important for dealers to maximize their digital visibility. In his presentation, Tim will share how to scale local search engine marketing best practices in order to drive prospects to your lot.
How to gain traction in Local Search with Google Places/Maps. 10 strategies to help you get more foot traffic to your business. Also, how to get customer reviews from your happy customers!
SEO, Linking & Authorship for Small BusinessesLoren Baker
Integrate tactics such as linking, blogging, publishing, authorship markup and technical SEO into your overall online marketing mix; whether a small business or an enterprise.
Multi-location brands can configure Facebook location pages for each of its locations. This presentation explains what Facebook Place Pages are, why they exist, why you need to take control of them and who should do so.
Learn about the steps that accountants, CPAs and accounting marketers can take to develop their local SEO including free assessment tools to see where to get started.
What PPC Can Steal from SEO - given at State of Search 2013, through DFWSEM, Dallas, TX. November 18, 2013
Learn some tips and tricks that paid search can borrow from the SEO industry tools.
Local SEO presentation at Pubcon Austin 2018. In this presentation we examine the current status of Local Search and the Local Search as well as take a peak at what the future might hold.
Topic: Catch The Pigeon – Local SEO in 2015
- What was the Pigeon update and what has changed
- How to make sure you have optimised for Local SEO
- The importance of Google My Business and how to create a good profile
- Essential local tactics that you can no longer ignore
- Making sure you don’t miss your Mobile audience
Optimizing for Local Search for RV DealersTimothy Resnik
With increased competition squeezing traditional market areas, it is becoming increasingly important for dealers to maximize their digital visibility. In his presentation, Tim will share how to scale local search engine marketing best practices in order to drive prospects to your lot.
How to gain traction in Local Search with Google Places/Maps. 10 strategies to help you get more foot traffic to your business. Also, how to get customer reviews from your happy customers!
SEO, Linking & Authorship for Small BusinessesLoren Baker
Integrate tactics such as linking, blogging, publishing, authorship markup and technical SEO into your overall online marketing mix; whether a small business or an enterprise.
Multi-location brands can configure Facebook location pages for each of its locations. This presentation explains what Facebook Place Pages are, why they exist, why you need to take control of them and who should do so.
Google Places listings are becoming more and more important as they gain valuable real estate in Search Engine Results. This presentation discusses how to get started with Google Places, including how to claim your Google Places listings, how to optimize your Google Places listing, and some FAQs around Google Places.
From Schipul - The Web Marketing Company
Check us out at http://thesemblog.com
Lab: Local Content Marketing - How to Increase Your Local Visibility in Search and Social Media
Kevin Gibbons will explain how to make an impact on a local level by using social media to build a targeted local community around your brand. This will show case study examples of how BlueGlass have boosted the local presence of various clients in different sectors.
Instructor:
Kevin Gibbons, Managing Director UK, BlueGlass Interactive, Inc
Let’s face it, you’ve been cranking content out for years and the majority of it isn’t successful. Learn how The Motley Fool’s Alli Berry has been applying the principles of the popular KonMari Method™ to allow their best web pages to flourish by pruning unsuccessful content. In this session, you will learn a systematic way to uncover and improve your best performing content, find “too similar” pages that are cannibalizing your efforts, and develop a redirect strategy that will lead to organic growth.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
4. WHY IS LOCAL SEO IMPORTANT?
Who uses the Yellow
Pages anymore?
Where are your
customers located?
Google is continually
shifting towards ‘local’
40% of mobile queries
are related to location
Fight large competitors
– with a local address!
5. KEY FACTORS IN GETTING FOUND LOCALLY
1. Having a local
business
2. Citations
3. Categories
4. Claiming your listing
with Google
5. Keywords in your
business title
6. CITATIONS CONSISTENCY IS KEY
Building up evidence Business Name
that your business is Address
real (and local) Website
Not just the number of
Phone
citations but the
Email
strength of them
Correct Category
Not just web links
Losing anonymity
though!
7. CITATIONS
Craigslist Infoserve
Gumtree Brown book
Yelp We Love Local
Yell Tipped
East Lothian Council Bview
Food & Drink EL Trusted Places
East Lothian Buzz Up My Street
Trip Advisor Thomson Local
SmileLocal Local Data Search
Ufindus Qype
Scoot Hotfrog
Touch Local Chamber of Commerce
Netmums Search your high ranking
competitors and find out which
sites they are listed on
16. LOCAL SEO TOP 10 TAKEAWAYS
1. Be consistent with 6. Add location to your
your details web site title tags
2. Search your 7. Ensure you mention
competitors – who’s location in your
listing them? website content too
3. Build up your listings 8. Show your physical
slowly but regularly address on each
4. Get onto Google page
Places 9. Monitor your listings
5. Ask for 10. Get involved on local
recommendations sites
