Responsive Design & Mobile SEO: Best Practices for 2013

We’re shifting into a world in which smartphones and tablets are beginning to rule the roost in terms of connectivity....
Google+ Local Reviews: 5 Tips for Serving Up Customers

Wouldn’t it be game changing for businesses not receiving customer feedback, to do so? The June release of David Mihm’s...
New Conversion Conundrum: Solved for High Commissions

At a recent exhibition TRI Hospitality presented some new findings, one of which was quite alarming, if not so surprising....
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....
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...
Top 7 Tricks to Rank in Google Places

If you’ve worked with Google in the past you’ll know just how hard it is to rank for Google Places...
Three Things You Need to Know about the Yellow Pages

Local business owners know that they have to be very thorough when it comes to their marketing strategies. Fact is,...
Organic Search Traffic Brings Qualified Traffic! A Local Story

For the last year or so, I have done some very simple optimization for a local electrician with the goal...
Monitor Your Local Search Engine Positions with Local Search Rank Tracker

Local Search Rank Checker is a nice web-based tool that lets you check and track your local search engine positions...
Local Search O-Pack and the Art of Title Tags

We all know how important title tags are when it comes to SEO. Not only for ranking but it will...
Travel Technology Europe & THack – Instigating Creativity

Tnooz THack initiative promotes innovation, momentum, and maybe the “edge” the next great travel giant wants. Tnooz Co-founder Kevin May...
10 Local Search Tools I Simply Can’t Live Without

If you were to ask me what the biggest let down in the local search industry was a year ago,...
Google Maps Shuts the Doors on Real Estate Search

Back in July of 2009, Google announced a Maps projects that would allow users to search for the details of...
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...
How Google Hotpot Is Different from Places

While initial versions of Hotpot were released in mid-November, Google’s heir to Places is only now starting to see a...
TripAdvisor Blocks Google’s Review Streaming

Both Google Maps and Google Places aim to help consumers find the right business for their needs, and do so...
Local Search Tips Whitepaper from Location3 Media

Location3 Media has shared with us their Local Search Tips whitepaper that covers big picture strategies and small hints to...
PPC – Geographic Targeting

Adwords lets you geographically target specific locations. You can target a continent, a country, a province/state, a city, a certain...
A Cornucopia Full of Local Search O-Pack Advice

Yes. Not only did I tie in the word cornucopia into a local search post, but I managed to spell...
Think Local. Act Global. How Google Places Fails the Tourism Industry

For location-based businesses, ranking highly in Google Places can be a boon to sales. This is not only true on...