While reviewing Google’s Rich Snippets for Local Search page, I stumbled upon the link “Tell us about your content.” This page offers a form that local content aggregators can submit to Google. Owners or managers of a business or chain of businesses should still claim and edit their listings via Google Places. Information such as …
UniversalBusinessListing.org is a site that provides home-based and micro businesses with the service of having their business profiles distributed to major search outlets, social networks, directory assistance, navigation services, and online yellow pages. Name Dynamics, the parent company of UBL, knows the difficulties that business owners can face when it comes to making their online …
Many businesses have gone down the path of claiming their local business listing, but we have seen two distinct problems. The first is that while the local business listings have been claimed, they are only claimed at Google. That doesn’t necessarily benefit the overall marketing process on the web, which we will discuss further. The …
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 seeing double-vision when it comes to their Google Places listings. Not to shut my phone line down or anything, but I can honestly say that I hate duplicates with the …
Does your business standout to local consumers through local business listings? Is your business dependent upon the local geography for your revenue? If you’re not using local business listings as an additional marketing tool to reach consumers then you are missing out on a significant local marketing tool. Considering that local business listings show up …
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 you find what you need with fewer keystrokes by taking into account the location from which you’re searching. This isn’t exactly ground breaking news as all the other major search …
Okay, so you’ve decided to launch fully localized, multilingual versions of your company’s website – that’s great news. And you’ve even painstakingly researched all the correct keywords to properly optimize each website for its target audience – even better. The key thing to remember with any website is that it should be regularly updated with …
In June Google started beta testing it’s Local Shopping inventory feature which allows merchants to submit a list of products that they currently have in stock so that users can easily locate these goods when performing a search. They have since received a lot of positive feedback from searchers and have an influx of retailers …
Yahoo Search blog announced today that it is introducing a new Search Assist that is enhanced with the ability to provide users with geographically-closer suggestions as you are typing. This new feature is suppose to help searchers save a little time while typing their query because Search Assist will take into account the location you …
Apparently food carts are a very big deal in Portland, Oregon. So big in fact that Microsoft has developed a new mapping layer that allows searchers to locate these carts in the Bing Maps service. This new layer is joining the ranks of other food cart finders including a maps layer from FoodCartsPortland.com on Google …
