Category Archives: Local Search

Yahoo Local Listings

Although most people are using Google for local search a lot of people do use Yahoo to find local business in their area. Yahoo does a fairly decent job of integrating local listing into the regular search results but it’s not as fluid as Google and there are differences on how the 2 search engines [...]

SEO Tactics For Local Search

SEO for local search is something you see talked about a lot on the internet these days but finding reliable information through all the noise can be a challenge. There is an incredible amount of bad info about search optimization that can do your business much more harm than good. Did you know a companies [...]

Google Maps Fights Back Against Spam

On the 1st of June 2009 Google Maps update their quality guidelines for business listing.  This is yet another move by Google to keep their search results clean and spam free. I haven’t noticed much of any spam in our local listing but I’ve seen examples of local business listing spam posted by others. Here [...]