This is a guest post by Jerry McGovern, a content strategist for Acquisio, a company that develops PPC management software and advanced bid management tools. As more consumers go online and use major search engines to find local businesses, local merchants have to supplement their advertising strategy. While it used to be enough to take [...]
Category Archives: Local Search
Popular Searches Unique To U.S.
December 2, 2009 – 3:27 pm
Google recently released a bunch of data about search queries that were the most popular searches on Google in the U.S. in 2009. This is always some interesting data to mull over. The graph pictured above captures the fastest rising query for each quarter of 2009, visualized over the entire year. Google.com – Fastest Rising [...]
Local Search Results – The Lucky 7 Pack
October 10, 2009 – 11:43 am
Google is continually making changes to the algorithm to get local business listing to show up in a search. Last week saw yet another tweak. The 10-pack is now the 7-pack. Search using the city modifier: In my opinion the 10-pack took up to much space. it hogged the top of the page making it [...]
