Mike Blumenthal

Comscore recently announced the Top 10 Gaining Categories of web properties. I have noted those that were explicitly local in bold and those that are likely to entail a significant local component in italics: comScore Top 10 Gaining Categories by Percentage Change in Unique Visitors (U.S.) July 2008 vs. June 2008 Total U.S. – Home, …

Barry Hunter of Nearby.org.uk, one of the most knowledgeable people about Google Maps and Google Earth, has created a flow chart showing the path that geo referenced information takes from the KML file on your  website into Google’s geo properties.

In a Sunday comment piece in the Guardian UK/ the Observer, Vincent Cerf highlighted his belief that most of the world will access the internet via their cell phones and that will lead to an explosion of online information: There are more than three billion mobiles in use today and more than 80 per cent …

David and I have been immortalized in Brian Carter’s newest video: Local Search Rock Stars Mihm & Blumenthal Doing Some Local Parkouring. According to Brian: In my opinion the biggest two rock stars in the “local search” space are David Mihm and Mike Blumenthal, exemplified in their separate analyses of local search ranking factors. Check …

I recently read and responded to this post in the Google Maps for Business Group: ================================================= TOPIC: Fix our phone number – repetitive problem. ================================================= == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Aug 13 2008 11:26 am From: rihard2000 Sorry to butt into this discussion, but I am having the same problem with my updated listing. …

It appears that Google has upgraded the Add Sitemap feature at Webmaster Central to accommodate a broader range of media types on a site that might not be accurately reflected or have enough context in a traditional sitemap file:

If you are looking for information on Ranking in Google Maps you might want to view these: •SMXEast Presentation: A patent review of Maps Ranking Factors •Ranking Factors in Google Maps – Cracking the Code SMX Local •10 Likely Ranking Factors of Google’s Local Search Algorithm We know that Google is using KML files and …

I had just finished reading this disturbing speculative piece on possible federal legislation referred to as the i-Patriot Act when I bounced over to the NY Times for my cheerful morning read and noticed the photo in this article about Google’s new Insight Tool…. I had been a little disappointed that Google had not included me …

Here is the presentation I presented at SMX Local Mobile: If you have questions or suggestions to this model of ranking factors let me know. I hopefully will be writing up more thorough report on our research shortly. Mike Blumenthal

This is a summary of summaries and related posts from SMX Local Mobile. I had the intention of writing several posts but being the lazy son and having found some good reporting I thought I would just provide you a complete set of links. They are arranged in the order of presentation at the conference: …