I’ve had an active account with CitySearch.com to promote several of my sites for quite some time, and we’ve received a significant amount of targeted, high-converting local traffic over the years. I was quick to embrace local search marketing, as it’s a major factor in how customers find the products and services that we offer.
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With all of the recent infighting, bickering, and other seriousness in the SEO community, I thought it would be appropriate to share what I feel is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.

As someone that grew up watching Chuck Norris movies and every other movie related to martial arts (the Bruce Lee collection comes to mind), this site had me laughing out loud for a very, very, long time. Once I started reading I couldn’t stop and ended up reading all 100 of the top random facts about Chuck Norris. And yes, in case you’re wondering, I made sure that Chuck Norris isn’t upset about the random facts being made up about him before I posted this.

Some of my favorites are:
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With all of the recent talk about “linkbaiting” and this mention of several excellent ways to bring traffic and natural links to your site, I’m reminded of the old days (OK, it wasn’t that long ago) way back in 2000 when my first online business, Surreal Web Design, was in it’s prime.
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Earlier this month Jim Boykin and the We Build Pages team announced that their first-ever Link Ninjas training classes (January 18-19th) would actually be their last.
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I meant to write about this earlier, but I actually wanted to make sure I could include all of the news in one large post.

Continuing where things left off with my earlier post about Google’s Bigdaddy datacenter, Matt Cutts recently provided a plethora of great information in a very short period of time. The most important update was that in order to check out results from the new datacenter, you’ll need to hit this address instead of the address he previously posted. Many other hot topics were covered, including:
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When speaking with clients, I often find myself using the phrase “It’s no different online” to explain the similarities and common characteristics of traditional brick-and-mortar businesses with online business. The majority of my current clients have never developed a website nor run a successful online business (usually their first online endeavor) so it’s important for me to communicate online marketing information in ways that can be easily digested.
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Matt Cutts posted some information today about Google’s next incremental update and it’s availability on Google’s “Big Daddy” datacenter (I didn’t make that up).

He’s not quite ready for feedback from results just yet, so give it a few weeks so the engineers can do their magic before posting on Matt’s blog.
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The constant translation of internet marketing concepts into terms that clients easily understand can be challenging at times, especially with clients that have limited knowledge of computers, the internet, and search engines. While there are many SEO books and guides out there of varying importance and skill levels, I have finally found one I can recommend with confidence to clients and friends.
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