Local Search
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Local Carousel Rankings Are Out: The Verdict
The local carousel design has been in effect since June of this year, so it’s about that time when experts try to measure its success...
Google Hotel Finder & The War for Hotel SERP Listings
Have you tried searching for a hotel lately on Google? If you have, you noticed a plethora of new Google hotel related search results. This...
Native Rank’s George Avery talks about Local Online Visibility
George Avery is the owner of Native Rank and LocalSEO. He has over ten years in industry experience in digital media and performance marketing as...
150 Blog Posts in 50 Days: Why Were Marketers Mad?
Maybe you heard of our little content marketing experiment. We were unsatisfied with the results our SEO company was producing, so we decided to take...
The Truth about SEO and Call Tracking
There has been a great deal of discussion about SEO and call tracking lately. Several local marketers have written articles decrying call tracking, saying that...
Local Discovery Market Continues to Grow
As people begin to rely on services and apps to help them navigate the world around them, local discovery is going to get a lot...
A Deeper Look at Google Signals Map and Social Data Hub
If you’re anything like me, you stumbled across a Google Signals Map and had no idea it even existed. However, Google Signals has actually been...
How to Set Up Your Company in Bing Business Portal
If you run a business with a brick and mortar location, then you already know the importance of local SEO. While any good SEO can...
The 3 Pillars of Local Search Reviews
If Local Search was a building, it was look something like this… (photo from the Telegraph) There are new things being added, subtracted, re-arranged, re-named,...
5 Things Google is Doing Wrong with Local Search
These last two months have been quite interesting with the launch of the Google Places O-Pack. It seems like everyone and their dog finally decided...
The 3 Major Causes of Duplicate Listings in Local Search
Over the past 2 months I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of 99.3% of the phone calls I have received involve companies who are...
Yahoo! Search Suggestions Now Localized
Yahoo! recently announced that they are making search more intuitive by taking a users location into consideration when suggesting search queries. Yahoo! Search Assist helps...
Google Places Removes Yelp Reviews From Search Results
As of right now, Google has removed all Yelp reviews from its Places feature. Even though the local reviews website’s snippets will no longer be...
Google Places Police
Google has plans to dominate the search world but you are only welcome if you start paying for your local search traffic!
Foursquare – A Marketing Channel Not A Campaign
It was interesting to see this question (below) asked as a comment to a recent article on Foursquare that I was reading. “I need to...
Google I/O & SMX Advanced Lessons – Android & Don’t Beat Matt Cutts at Pool
Over the past month there have been 3 major conferences in the new search world: Google I/O, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, & SMX Advanced. I...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings
It really doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a sinner or a saint for you to benefit from some lessons I have had to learn...
Geo-Marketing As A New Business Marketing Tool
Geo-Marketing (or Geographic Marketing) is a new method of marketing a business and its website through web searches, mobile searches and social media. As you...
Local Search Recipe: Making KML Files and GEO Sitemaps Are a Piece of Cake.
Last month I shared one of my favorite recipes on tracking local search data with Google Analytics for wordpress. This month I figured that one...
Top Local Business Listing Questions Answered – Interview with Will Scott
I have had many opportunities to chat all things local with my good friend Will Scott, and just the other day we were at it...
8 Search Engine Related iPad Apps
Aside from Twitter and Social Networking apps, another interesting set of apps available right now on the iPad App Store are search-related. I scoured through...
Google Tests Hotel Price Listings on Google Maps
Google Maps is a pretty useful tool for conducting local search on business establishments, directions and yes route maps. It’s been getting wide usage and...
Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators
Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs. Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those...
Google Now Showing Local Results for State Wide Searches
It is no news that Google is displaying local search results in the SERPS these days. If you are looking for anything from a dentist...
Google Ranks and Color Codes Businesses on Place Pages
Google has quietly rolled out a new feature for ranking and showing different aspects about businesses on Place Pages for Google Maps. The new feature...
The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List
Like James Morris once said, “There is no secret sauce in SEO“. Really, if you can allow the time for some studying, you are most...
Local Shopping Search Engine Milo.com Goes Mainstream
Although local shopping search engine Milo.com has been around for two years already, it is only now that the site is going full blast as...
Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web...
Idearc Buys LocalSearch.com for $3.3 Million
Is it my imagination or is there a massive local search land grab in action between companies like Idearch, Marchex, Dex and Local.com? Idearc Media...
AOL Launches AOL Mobile Search with MovieFone, CityGuide & Mapquest Content
AOL has launched a beta version of their new AOL Mobile Search product which takes advantage of AOL properties such as Moviefone, MapQuest and AOL...