It’s incredibly important to get your business involved in local SEO, but businesses should not stop at just one search engine or one local listing service. If you’re a business owner, creating a presence on all of the different local outlets including Yahoo Local, Bing Local Listings, Yelp, and Google+ Local will only help you …

Ever since the Venice update, local search started growing increasingly more complex. Today, borders between traditional and local search are completely blurred. Everything is a blend. Simple “10 packs” or “7 packs” are now a thing of the past. Location prominence stopped being all that it takes to win. Nobody knows how the local ecosystem will change …

  There have been many articles on the subject of local search optimization, but only few about the proper timing of optimization steps. In order to understand what timing and local SEO have in common, you first need to know that there are three types of local directories: Major data providers Search engines Local directories …

Wouldn’t it be game changing for businesses not receiving customer feedback, to do so? The June release of David Mihm’s local search ranking factors has further highlighted the importance of native Google reviews. In combination with Google’s social-local mash, reviews will become vital to keeping those business phones ringing. So often, physical businesses have trouble …

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, left unfinished, and stolen all the time in the industry. We have seen the rise of deals, check-ins, mainstream local results in SERP’s, review fights between the giants, and countless …