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• Google Product Search: Nearby Stores

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 569
  There was a fairly major upgrade to Google Product Search , some of it long overdue and some of it probably motivated by Bing. But one of the new features is “nearby stores”: This is based on store locations and not product inventory data. Originally Google was taking data from ShopLocal and StepUp (now ...
  16 hours ago

• Delegates gain insights into key global markets at the International Search Summit

  
  Fast Press Releaser — Authority: 137
  p>There is huge online potential for marketers in Asia and Latin America, as long as they understand each target market and tailor their campaigns for both local search engines and users, was a key message to come out of the International Search Summit SEO in London last week.The Chinese, Japanese and the key Latin ...
  16 hours ago

• Milo Raises $4 Million for Local Shopping

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 569
  Milo is seeking to do what nobody has really done successfully so far: create a true online-offline shopping destination. There are several companies out there aggregating and distributing inventory data (e.g., Krillion), but no one has created a successful consumer destination. ShopLocal has largely abandoned its ...
  16 hours ago

• Google Maps Launches Navigation for Android 1.6

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 150
  Recently, Google Maps launched Navigation, a robust GPS system for Android. But it only came out for Android 2.0, meaning it could only be used on the brand spankin’ new Motorola Droid from Verizon. Good news for Android 1.6 users. You’ll get to use Navigation for your Turkey Day travels this week. Simply update ...
  21 hours ago

• Reports: Bing Gains Among Retailers, At Local Level Too

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 150
  In this post I’m combining two search trends reports: early Q4 search spending data from SearchIgnite and excerpts from a terrific Q3 local search spending report from WebVisible. Both show gains by Bing. The WebVisible report also shows significant improvements by Yahoo. Based on “41 million clicks on Google, ...
  21 hours ago

• Delegates gain insights into key global markets at the International Search Summit

  
  eNewsWire — Authority: 131
  There is huge online potential for marketers in Asia and Latin America, as long as they understand each target market and tailor their campaigns for both local search engines and users , was a key message to come out of the International Search Summit SEO in London last week. The Chinese, Japanese and the key ...
  22 hours ago

• Google Experiements with New Look and SERP

  
  SEO Services Yahoo Stores by Tom Chuong — Authority: 110
  Back in April 2009, I wrote an article about how important is to get your website listed in popular local directories . This is NOT a new push from me. Other SEO experts have been talking and getting their clients listed locally for years. Going forward, I really think it’s important that you get your business ...
  1 day ago

• Local.com Re-orgs into 3 Business Units

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 493
  Local.com has reorganized around three business units: “Owned & Operated,” “Sales & Advertiser Services,” and “Network.” The latter unit will consist of over 700 regional media sites, formerly associated with PremierGuide and its successor, and the new Local Distribution Network. Former ...
  1 day ago

• Google’s Local (Mobile) Coupon Move

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 569
  Google’s going to include coupons in mobile distribution of local business information on Place Pages. I’ve written up the announcement on Internet2Go : Google has had a big opportunity in local coupons that it has largely neglected perhaps until now. But now Google is making a push into  mobile distribution ...
  1 day ago

• Google Makes Mobile Coupon Push

  
  Internet2Go - An Opus Research Advisory Service - — Authority: 136
  Google has had a big opportunity in local coupons that it has largely neglected perhaps until now. But now Google is making a push into mobile distribution of local coupons for small businesses. read more
  1 day ago

• Get mobile coupons through Local Search

  
  Google Mobile Blog — Authority: 729
  Since we launched printable coupons on Google Maps a few years ago, people are increasingly using their mobile phones to find local information when theyre away from a computer. With more of you going mobile to search for this information, it makes sense for coupons to go mobile too. So just in time for the ...
  1 day ago

• WebVisible: SMBs Spent Average of $1,658 on Search in Q3; Google’s Share Drops a Little

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 493
  Small businesses that buy search spent $1,658 on average in Q3 2009, a figure that was up 91 percent from 3Q 2008, according to a new report issued by WebVisible , a company that manages online marketing campaigns for SMBs. Thirty-three percent of the SMB search market is made up of advertisers spending between ...
  1 day ago

• WebVisible Data on Q3 Local Search Spending

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 569
  I’m just now getting to a report put out by WebVisible on search trends and small business advertising spending in Q3. There’s some great data there. In the the top 20 SMB paid search spending categories: Attorneys and Dentists made up the top two largest advertiser categories in Q3 2009, with 7.7% and 5% of ...
  1 day ago

• Reports: Bing Gains Among Retailers, At Local Level Too

  
  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Authority: 762
  In this post I’m combining two search trends reports: early Q4 search spending data from SearchIgnite and excerpts from a terrific Q3 local search spending report from WebVisible. Both show gains by Bing. The WebVisible report also shows significant improvements by Yahoo.Based on “41 million clicks on Google, ...
  1 day ago

• Looking for a Legend In All the Wrong Places

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 540
  Zebedi recently posted this comment on my Get a Virtual Office With a Keyword Stuffed Maps Listing article. I thought it worth highlighting and responding: As a small business person, I cannot find an SEO that can tell me how to genuinely appear in search results in the areas we genuinely service. Why is it ...
  1 day ago

• Google Appears To Be Testing New Local AdWords Presentation

  
  Search Engine News — Authority: 150
  Mike Blumenthal received a screenshot that seems to show a test of a new presentation of Google local/geotargeted AdWords. Mike suggests this may be an expression of AdWords local extensions: This is AdWords and not Local Listing Ads, but the presentation (with the blue pushpin) is similar, signifying a local business ...
  1 day ago

• Google Maps: Citations, Reviews, & User Content

  
  SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com — Authority: 110
  Claiming and filling out your Google Maps Listing is the easy part, but it’s usually not enough when trying to rank within the ultra competitive Google Maps 7-Box. The last place you want your local business to be listed in is in the “More results near…such, such city” which might as well say “More ...
  2 days ago

• Local Search

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 181
  Looking for best practices outline and details on the best way to get a website on the first page of google for local search.
  2 days ago

• Setting Up Google Maps Listing Within Google’s LBC

  
  SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com — Authority: 110
  If you haven’t gone through the initial Introduction to the Google Maps we suggest you do that first.   This section below is the second part to our free Google Maps Course. It’s amazing how many things you can do wrong with these free listings.  Just following our advice to filling out your Google Maps ...
  2 days ago

• Introduction to Google Maps & Google’s Local Business Center

  
  SmallBusinessOnlineCoach.com — Authority: 110
  I may have rambled a little long in the video above , but the point I was trying to make is that a very large percentage of all searches have a local intent, so much so, Google is displaying a (7-Box) Google Maps listing  in the  organic SERP’s (search engine results pages) on many searched broad keyword terms. ...
  2 days ago

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