For every 20-30 emails we get at iBegin asking that we fix an issue, 1 of them always has the veiled threat of a lawsuit. “Fix my # or I will sue you!” “We have moved – fix it or I will have my lawyer deal with this!” etc etc. Of those threats, 1 out […]
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So as we continue to do quite a few verification phone calls every day, people tend to mess up. Human nature. Recently I have gotten to thinking – Google has you enter a four digit PIN, and for whatever reason that popped in our head, we all agreed that a four digit PIN was good. […]
So I find out that YellowPages.com has purchased YP.com (formerly operated by LiveDeal). But – what the hell are they doing with its SEO? They have essentially duplicated yellowpages.com on yp.com – creating a duplicate content nightmare. On top of it, all of their previous links are now dead and go straight back to YP.com […]
Yesterday I attended a little meetup comprised of NYC local/mobile based startups. There was a big discussion in the middle of it, and I played my usual part of devil’s advocate. But beyond that – I’m actually starting to feel old I started dabbling in local in early 2003, and early 2009 is almost upon […]
Tomorrow heralds the launch of the newest version of iBegin.com. Nothing changes superficially – but internally it pushes live 8 months of complete re-write from the ground-up. We’ve learned a lot in the 2+ years before the re-write started, and the new base will allow us to do more. A lot more masters of the […]
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So a few people have asked me … we ‘released’ iBegin Labs over 4 months ago, yet outside of this blog and the iBegin Blog we have never mentioned it. The thing is that we have a lot of stuff that we are working, testing, and experimenting with. As I alluded to in my earlier […]
Was talking to Mike about Google’s stats for websites, and we thought it would be cool to see the reach for the biggest YP sites in the USA. Cut-off was 0.1% reach: Site Unique Visitors Reach City Search 7.4 M 3.2% YellowPages.com 6.8 M 3% SuperPages.com 6.2 M 2.7% Yelp 4.6 M 2% Local.com 3.2 […]
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