Did you know that 73% of all online activity is related to local content? As a small business owner competing in your local market you should be aware that Google now determines the searchers location and provides the local search results regardless of their search query. This action has pushed business listing in Google prominently [...]
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Top 5 Ranking Factors for Local Search
August 17, 2009 – 10:24 am
Being a reasonably dedicated student of local search marketing I’m always on the look out for the straight skinny on search marketing and improving rankings at the local level. Over the weekend I had a chance to read David Mihm’s results from his 2009 Local Search Ranking Factors survey that was conducted in May 2009 [...]
Yahoo Local Listings
July 7, 2009 – 1:43 pm
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 [...]
