42 posts tagged geo search

Rating: God Save the Queen to all arrivals at Heathrow????? According to a piece on the Dialaphone blog Sony Ericsson have patented a system entitled Location Dependant Music Search. The patent says the following: A portable device may perform a location dependent music search.

The BrandVerity Blog noticed that Yahoo started displaying the business’s location under the search ads. For example, a search on lawyers in Yahoo returns several ads that display New York under them. Why New York? Because I am based in New York. If you are located in California, you might see California labeled under the ads.

If your site targets users in a particular geographic location, you can use our geographic target tool to provide us with information that will help us determine how your site appears in our country-specific search results, and also improve our search results for geographic queries.

Approximately 1.3 billion cellphone users will embrace local search by 2013.  Juniper Research states that this is 30% of the subscriber base.  We will continue to see additional reports from other industry experts validating the future growth of local search in the months to come.  There are many

This is a pretty amazing tool that Yahoo! has recently added to its local search platform.  Check out the video to see it in action on the link porvided.  Geo domains would greatly benefit with a platform like this on their site.  Consumers are always looking for the best tools to find what they need locally.

This is a question that we hear often at our SEO and website training seminars. A static website is a site that was not created to be updated. These sites suffer in the search rankings because they have nothing new to offer the search engines. You see, search engines like fresh content.

We’ve all been to our neighborhood Chinese restaurant where the proprietor welcomed us warmly and handed us the menu wishing us an enjoyable meal. Imagine her greeting you in Chinese and handing you a Chinese-only menu. Then when you inquire about the English menu, they respond to you in Chinese.

Moderator: Ian White, CEO, Urban Mapping Speakers: Gib Olander, Director of Business Development, Localeze Benu Aggarwal, Founder & President, Milestone Internet Marketing Chad Schott, Vice President, Business Development, Marchex, Inc. Vik Advani, Co-founder & CTO, UpNext.com Chad Schott: The role of local is the next great mega trend.

Moderator: Ian White, CEO, Urban Mapping Speakers: Gib Olander, Director of Business Development, Localeze Benu Aggarwal, Founder & President, Milestone Internet Marketing Chad Schott, Vice President, Business Development, Marchex, Inc. Vik Advani, Co-founder & CTO, UpNext.com Chad Schott: The role of local is the next great mega trend.

Marchex: Local Online Ads Continue to Rise Look for more of the same in 2008. That, according to a new report from local online advertising solution Marchex, which predicts that local online advertising will continue to rise, national advertisers will move into local advertising and that advertisers will increase their use of geographical targeting.