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...