Coming Soon: Click-to-Call in Ads on Mobile Devices with Google AdWords

I just received this email from Google: Coming Soon: Click-to-Call in Ads on Mobile Devices with Google AdWords Dear AdWords Advertiser, We’re pleased to announce that beginning in January, your location-specific business phone number will display alongside your destination url in ads that appear on high-end mobile devices. Users will be able to click-to-call your …

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Loci 2009 – Important Articles in Local Search

1. Particular postions, points or places 2. Centers of activity, attention, or concentration Each year, I invite folks whose opinion I respect to provide the readers of this blog with lists of the articles from 2009 that seemed most important to them. The people contributing come from a range of positions and job descriptions, some …

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Google Maps & Web Designers: Salt in the Wounds

With the recent brouhaha over the missing 7 packs for SEO and Web Designers due to “lack of local intent” on the part of searchers, you would think that Google would have the common sense not to rub salt in the wounds. Well, you would have thought wrong. Whether by intent or accident, Google is …

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