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[...] Ash Nallawalla/Net Magellan: SEO ranking of US IYPs across 274 cities [...]

[...] Ash Nallawalla/Net Magellan: SEO ranking of US IYPs across 274 cities [...]

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Google Trends gives me a different result for the current date – it ranks Yelp, Yellowpages.com, Citysearch, Superpages and Insiderpages. But it’s just as unreliable as the others, as the trend line for visits to our site doesn’t resemble our own data (which includes direct and non-G traffic).

Fair point on the state abbreviation, but I was looking for just one consistent keyphrase across the country for my IBP evaluation. If this were a paid assignment, I’d partner with one of the US SEO companies that have some powerful black-ops ranking checkers distributed over dozens of IP ranges and a decent database. Then we could dig up some realistic keyphrases across the more lucrative headings.

It’s interesting when Yellowbook powers IAF but their rankings are not adjacent all the time.

I haven’t heard of IYPs selling the SEO sizzle as part of the offering – certainly would make me nervous if they did.