Local Search
Learn the latest trends and tips that will help your local business grow using local search optimization, local marketing, and local advertising.
Local SEO Limitations to Acknowledge Now!
Local SEO is not just something that might help a business anymore, it will. In today’s business space it is absolutely vital for all business...
Google Now Showing Local Results for State Wide Searches
It is no news that Google is displaying local search results in the SERPS these days. If you are looking for anything from a dentist...
Yelp Securing Financing : Taking on Google & Yahoo Local
Yelp, the local business review community which made it to the cover of Inc Magazine this month AND turned down a Google acquisition in December,...
Your Business & Yelp In 2010
I want to get you thinking the way I am on this one, so bear with me for a moment. I want you to imagine...
Local PPC: Google AdWords GeoAttribution Is Inaccurate
We discovered in 2009 that AdWords inaccurately attributes the geolocation of your AdWords visitors. I previously wrote a blog post about AdWords geotargeting’s inadequacies in...
Google Ranks and Color Codes Businesses on Place Pages
Google has quietly rolled out a new feature for ranking and showing different aspects about businesses on Place Pages for Google Maps. The new feature...
The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List
Like James Morris once said, “There is no secret sauce in SEO“. Really, if you can allow the time for some studying, you are most...
Local Shopping Search Engine Milo.com Goes Mainstream
Although local shopping search engine Milo.com has been around for two years already, it is only now that the site is going full blast as...
Local SEO: Using Multiple URLs for Rankings
One tactic frequently implemented successfully with Local SEO is the use of multiple URLs, or micro-sites. To help you better understand how this functions, I’ve...
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 launch of the CSE, its...
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 site appeared on the web...
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 come out of the box...
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 to include access to...
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 called “Neighbors“, which allows members...
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 user of Google Maps. From...
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 of its LocalConnect Platform. These...
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 Tellme to deliver local, maps,...
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 a press release stating that...
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 of Switchboard.com and other local...
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 Yahoo Maps to come out...
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, Dex and Local.com? Idearc Media...
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, customizable drag-and-drop tool. The new...
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 integrates a number of new...
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 Sydney Morning Herald: Google will...
AOL Launches AOL Mobile Search with MovieFone, CityGuide & Mapquest Content
AOL has launched a beta version of their new AOL Mobile Search product which takes advantage of AOL properties such as Moviefone, MapQuest and AOL...
Exploring the Potential of the Google Maps API
For all the criticizing I do of Google, they’ve really hit upon a gold mine with Google Maps and in particular, their development of the...
Google Discontinues Google Maps Click to Call
Google has discontinued its Click-to-Call feature for Google Maps which the company says was a long running experiment. This feature was a long-running experiment, and...
5 Quick Ways To Optimize For Local Search
So you recently went to search for your local small business site and wondered why three other similar businesses came up before yours? The answer...
Google Plus Box Patent and Potential Issues
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the...
Yahoo Real Estate Improves HomeValues : Zillow & Yahoo Answers
Drawing partly on its relationship with Zillow, Yahoo! is launching an improved “HomeValues” section as part of Yahoo! Real Estate. It’s also integrating more community...