Google Local Business Center Dashboard Overview
The Google Lat Long Blog has announced their roll out of the Local Business Center dashboard containing local listing and...
Leveraging Small Business Customer Reviews and Testimonials Online
Referrals from happy customers have always been the best method for generating new customers. The next-best source is well-written, satisfied...
3 Keys To Success For Local Search SEO
Most web professionals are quite familiar with global search. Search marketing for global search can be boiled down to a...
How to Rank for Your Local Keywords in Google Maps
Today, I’m going to show you how to rank for your localized keywords in Google maps in 3 easy steps....
On-Demand Indexing by Google Custom Search Engine
Google has introduced a new system to work in conjunction with its already existing Custom Search Engine (CSE). Since the...
How to Optimize Local Business Profiles for Free Local Directories
In today’s ultra-competitive business environment, it is surprising that so many businesses still fail to take advantage of the free...
Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new...
Local Search Engine Grayboxx Finally Goes National
Online local search firm Grayboxx which was succeedingly rolled out in 5 major cities the past five months has finally...
Yahoo Expands Deal with NAVTEQ to Include More Country Data
At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show on Monday in Las Vegas, NAVTEQ announced that they had expanded their relationship with...
Yahoo Local Neighbors Launched to Bring Communities Together
Attempting to pull of what BackFence.com could never accomplish, Yahoo has begun testing on a new feature of Yahoo Local...
Google Maps Offers New Views & Collaboration Features
Working in a library where I am subjected to the random, erratic questions of library patrons, I’m a pretty avid...
Local.com’s Search Technology Gets a Patent
Local business finding search engine, Local.com gets to have its local search technology patented to several companies which are part...
Microsoft’s Live Search 411 : Voice Activated Search Results
This week Microsoft launched their voice activated local search service, Live Search 411, which harnesses the technology behind Microsoft acquisition...
Google & Immersive Media End StreetView Technology Relationship
Immersive Media, the company which developed the initial technology for the Google StreetView initiative for Google Maps, has sent out...
Idearc Acquires Switchboard.com from Infospace for $225 Million
The local search land grab continues as today Idearc, the parent company of Verizon and Superpages.com, has announced the purchase...
Yahoo to Launch HackDays’ MapMixer
Yahoo is launching a new feature of its Local Maps which lets users interpolate a non-Yahoo maps into an existing...
Idearc Buys LocalSearch.com for $3.3 Million
Is it my imagination or is there a massive local search land grab in action between companies like Idearch, Marchex,...
Superpages.com Adds Merchant Comparison Feature
Superpages.com today launched a compare merchant feature which allows users to compare up to eight business listings through a dynamic,...
3 Reasons Yahoo! Local Search Can Dominate Google
This week has been filled with news and commentary regarding Yahoo’s release of the new Yahoo! Local. The enhanced system...
Google to Offer Embedded Maps for Webmasters
A simplified way to “embed” Google Maps is apparently coming from Google next week, according to this story, in the...