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• Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?

  
  The NMS Blog — Authority: 146
  Source:Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?Share and Enjoy: Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?
  10 hours ago

• Dave Ingram Pushes Back on RT Local Search

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  At the recent Local Social Summit in London I moderated a panel about Real-Time Local Search. It featured Dave Ingram of BrownBook, Seb Provencher of Praized, Andrew Hunter of Qype and Sokratis Papafloratos of Trusted Places. The discussion was excellent and interesting because definitions and concepts were elusive ...
  1 day ago

• Directory Publishers: Key Success Factors for User Reviews Deployment

  
  The Praized Blog — Authority: 414
  In my dual role as industry blogger and co-founder of a company that provides social media technologies to local media companies ( including ratings/reviews ), I’m often asked about deployment of user ratings/reviews in the context of a directory publisher. Here are my current thoughts (in no particular ...
  1 day ago

• JustDial: Call in your search query

  
  Devils Workshop — Authority: 432
  Most people who use search engines often use it for looking up local information. Google Search is quite handy to look up phone numbers for restaurants, hospitals and other important details you might require. But what if I did not have access to the internet. Well I can always call up a friend and request him ...
  1 day ago

• Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid

  
  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Authority: 747
  I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the hype that positions it as some amazing new essence that businesses and consumers must embrace… sorry.I acknowledge that it’s useful to have a label to refer to this concept, but is ...
  2 days ago

• Bruce Clay Debunks Local Search Myths

  
  WebProNews Videos — Authority: 574
  There are certain myths associated with local search that many businesses unfortunately, get wrapped up in. Bruce Clay , the President and CEO of Bruce Clay, Inc. , talks with WebProNews and explains why these theories are false. First of all, small businesses do not always realize that they are competing with ...
  2 days ago

• Coupons.com and RetailMeNot in Reciprocal Deal

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  Coupons.com and RetailMeNot have announced that they’re going to be distributing the other’s coupons in an exclusive reciprocal deal. The press release, which goes out later this morning says: Shoppers visiting Coupons.com can now browse and use RetailMeNot.com’s 400,000 online coupon codes that, when entered ...
  2 days ago

• Google Improves Movie Listings

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  Google has done a few things to beef up its presentation of movie listings. The Google Blog explains the catalog of the new features: Comprehensive movie pages . . . Our new detailed layout brings together all the basic information you need with a plot synopsis, trailer, reviews and photos in the same page. ...
  2 days ago

• KML and Sitemaps on SEO 101- WebmasterRadio.FM

  
  Local Search Optimization - Martijn Beijk — Authority: 108
  I have been talking on WMR about KML and Sitemaps . The show is mainly about using KML for Local SEO and citations. OK – it has been almost two weeks ago, but I wanted to share this for the people who missed out. I got the opportunity to talk in the radio show SEO 1on1 on WebmasterRadio.FM on short notice. ...
  2 days ago

• More Street View in more Countries

  
  Local Search Optimization - Martijn Beijk — Authority: 108
  Yes! Finally, almost half of the Netherlands is now covered in Street View, including some parts of the city where I live, Zwolle. This is what the LatLong blog reported yesterday. More Street View cities have become available in the Netherlands and Spain. Apart from that Google also announced that Street View ...
  3 days ago

• Google Includes Place Pages Ad Info on Placement Performance Reports

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 149
  In September, Google launched Place Pages, which aggregate content to give a fuller listing for local content in Google Maps. Ads appear on those Place Pages and now AdWords users can see if their ads are appearing on them. The data is included on Placement Performance reports. You can’t currently bid for an ad to ...
  3 days ago

• Real Time Search Coming to Mobile

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 149
  Real time and local mobile search are two of the major hot spots in search today. and now they’re coming together. We’ve heard more and more about OneRiot now that their rumored deal with Yahoo has been confirmed in testing—and OneRiot is bring real time (and social) to mobile, this time through a partnership ...
  3 days ago

• Future of Local-Mobile: Your Questions

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  On Thursday at 1 ET/10 Pacific I’m doing a webinar with MobilePeople called “ The Future of Location on Mobile Devices: LBS, Apps & Monetization .” We could talk for eight hours about this cluster of topics but I want to be responsive to where the interest resides. Tell me what questions and areas you’d ...
  4 days ago

• Yahoo Mail Goes All Social On Me

  
  Local SEO Guide — Authority: 409
  I just sent an email out to a bunch of local seo types and saw this on the “message sent” confirmation screen: For now the data looks relevant only to Yahoo social activities, but you could imagine a future where Yahoo (or Google via GMail) would understand the text of the outgoing mail and shown social ...
  4 days ago

• HelpHive Shifts: SMBs Must Opt-In to Have HelpHive Number

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 468
  HelpHive , the new Seattle-based leads provider for service SMBs, had made some changes after running into real PR problems last week from Evan Conkllin, an angry (and persistent) plumber. He was irate that the company was taking SMB phone numbers and trademark info, and funneling them through their own system so ...
  4 days ago

• Microsoft & Yellowpages.com on Maps, Mobile

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  I wrote this morning at Search Engine Land about some upgrades and changes on Google Street View and Bing Maps and I stumbled across a Bing Community post about Yellowpages.com’s use of Bing Maps in mobile. Yellowpages provides the paid ads for local results on Bing Maps on the PC and in mobile. One thing ...
  4 days ago

• Twitter & Local: How Good Will It Get?

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  There are several ways to add location to Tweets: # tags, Praized offers a browser plug-in and Twitter has a geo-location API : A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location ...
  4 days ago

• Google Local Listing Ads Update

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  Mike Blumenthal has a nice update on Local Listing Ads (LLAs). He points out that there’s an extensive help/FAQs area now, with questions such as: Why does Local Listing Ads offer a free trial? What’s the catch? Who qualifies for Local Listing Ads? What’s the difference between Local Listing Ads and ...
  4 days ago

• HelpHive Seeks to ‘Set Record Straight’

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 585
  In response to a lot of controversy over HelpHive’s approach to delivering calls/leads to local businesses, the company has made some changes and is seeking to clarify policies to correct what it says are “false information and half truths that are being purported in the business community.” I won’t ...
  4 days ago

• Google Updates, Re-Updates Quality Guidelines

  
  WhoInnovated.com — Authority: 154
  Google got all the local search experts talking last week with the release of an updated (and then re-updated) set of Business Listing Guidelines . See the original post here: Google Updates, Re-Updates Quality Guidelines
  4 days ago

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