HyperlocalSEO.com Launches Today – Want to Write A Guest Blog Post?

I wanted to do a quick announcement concerning the "soft launch" of HyperlocalSEO.com. I had been contemplating launching a separate blog focused more on local seo and local search in general but wanted to make sure that I could put in the time necessary.

Well, the great news is thanks to George Pickering from LocalExperts.com I have a solid partner in this new blog who will be doing posts as well. George is a true success story in the development of geo targeted niche sites that generate real business for his customers.

Between the two of us plus a some articles some of my team will be doing I expect this blog to do quite well and provide valuable information to small businesses looking to grow their business online and take advantage of local search growth and the trend towards more hyperlocal content.

One of the problems with launching my initial blog on BruceMarler.com is I could not really have multiple writers on the site, with the launch of HyperlocalSEO.com I envision overtime having a group of contributors that all benefit from the successful site and I will just be one small piece of it.

There may not be much up there right now but look for tons more coming soon.

If you have interest in the local seo or geo targeted search market and would like to do a guest blog post or be an author on the site shoot me a message.

Hyperlocal Online Media Acquisitions Heat Up

With the hyperlocal/community based approach to news that we have built on Missouri.me we have already started to witness the community involvment we had hoped for start to happen in various towns across the state. In those towns that either community leaders or community networkers have started to post we get additional content plus the goodwill that comes with the citizens no longer having to fight the battle to get their story out.

As many people have seen this push for hyperlocal news has caused a bit of a stir in the legacy media world as well as sites that focus on online media as they fight to determine the proper business model to approach this type of news model. As much as we love our citizen journalists on Missouri.me we also know that it does take time get these people involved on a community by community basis and as such we have not focused purely on them as our news source. And I think overall the model in the industry will be a mix of local people reporting what they consider news alongside legacy media writers doing true research journalism for indepth stories.

All that said, there have been some great stories come out this past week and month about this, here are a few stories you in the Geo domain space, or online media space in general may find interesting or useful.

I normally try not to do posts filled with links to tons of other stories but these were interesting so decided to loosen up for the day.

Hyperlocal News a $100 billion dollar market - FastCompany.com This is a great read, if you have any interest in localized/geo domains read this.

Everyblock.com Acquired by MSNBC.com - TechCrunch.com

Jeff Jarvis Creates Spreadsheet to Save Local News - TechCrunch.com

Local Yokels - Hyperlocal News Sites

AOL Buys Two Hyperlocal News Sites - AllthingsD.com

And one story about print media continuing to fall on its face (to put it bluntly): Readers Digest Goes Bankrupt