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 [...]

If you’ve worked with Google in the past you’ll know just how hard it is to rank for Google Places for many searches. It’s also apparent how important Google Places have become – they often take up the top parts of the page for a search term. So even if you rank first for a [...]

Local business owners know that they have to be very thorough when it comes to their marketing strategies. Fact is, you will never know how or where you will be able to find new customers. For this reason, small businesses need to exhaust all possible avenues even if that means utilizing marketing platforms which one [...]

For the last year or so, I have done some very simple optimization for a local electrician with the goal in mind that he could get a couple more leads in this tough economic time.  This client never had a website and was the typical “yellow page” advertising tradesman.    One day when discussing the economy [...]

We all know how important title tags are when it comes to SEO. Not only for ranking but it will also be the first piece of information a searcher will see about your site. I like to think of a title tag as a first date. You want to look better than you really are, [...]

Tnooz THack initiative promotes innovation, momentum, and maybe the “edge” the next great travel giant wants. Tnooz Co-founder Kevin May explores what’s next. Technology touches every area of our lives these days and nowhere more significantly than in the travel and mobility spaces. Online travel business is rapidly outdistancing traditional travel, and nowhere in the [...]

Back in July of 2009, Google announced a Maps projects that would allow users to search for the details of local property. This included the location, cost, images, and descriptions of rental and purchase properties in the U.S., UK, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. Now, however, the feature is being cast into the heaping stack [...]

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 that  Google Local is going to be a huge theme for the big “G” moving forward, and a lot more businesses are focusing on it. Here is a chart showing [...]