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Because there are fewer competitors, local search engine optimization is not nearly as challenging as broader categories -- but it still has its challenges. Many of the same core SEO rules still apply, but thanks in part to improvements...
Local search advertising revenues will increase from $5.1 billion in 2010 to $8.2 billion by 2015, according to local media analyst BIA/Kelsey. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent that’s driven by the continuing...
Local search is currently one of the fiercest battlegrounds on the Web, which means we can expect nothing less from Google than its best shot. That’s exactly what it fired this week with the unveiling of Place Search, the new...
Three ways to optimize your Internet presence for local search queries :: by John Faris, Red Door Interactive :: Former U.S. Congressman Tip O’Neill famously coined the phrase, “All politics is local.” In much the...
Yahoo! and Dex One announced an expanded partnership where businesses advertising on dexknows.com will now be able to have their online listings appear in Yahoo! Local search results. The expanded partnership doubles the geographic...
An upgraded Web application from Localeze, the largest business listings directory provider for local search, is designed for businesses to better manage their local listings while delivering more accurate data to local search engines...
A great way to improve your rankings on the 3 major local search engines is by getting listed on the top Internet Yellow pages sites. The key to when submitting to the Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs) is to make sure all of the information...
Twitter has added a new trending topic functionality, this time with a local tilt. On the right side of your Twitter home page, you will see a notification of trending topics that you can change (at right). Click the arrow and then...
Local search provider DexKnows.com announced it will be using Maponics map data to offer neighborhood-level search for its individual city pages. One of the issues that has held back local search was its inability to bring context...
Krillion , a search engine for local shopping now works with Toshiba’s laptop division. Customers can search for Toshiba laptops and find out prices and availability of online and offline merchants. The announcement comes just...
About 20 percent of online searches have a local intent, where users are looking for businesses, organizations, events, and other information in a specific geographic area. Yahoo! has taken some pages from the Bing and Google search...
As a small business in a lackluster economy, making the most of your marketing dollars is critical to your bottom line. Using a local search engine, you can target customers in a particular region while maximizing your marketing investment...
AT&T Interactive and Yahoo yesterday announced an agreement under which AT&T’s 5,000 strong sales force will sell Yahoo! display inventory across the United States. The companies have existing relationships across a variety...
If you operate a local, brick-and-mortar business, you will want to check out Google's Local Business Center (LBC). No doubt, consumers have learned about your business through a Google search, or found directions to your location...
There has been a surge of annual growth for local search, according to a study conducted by comScore released today by the Yellow Pages Association. Local search grew 58 percent in 2008, reaching an annual total of 15.7 billion searches...
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