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Category Archive For "Local Mobile"
My Recent Posts Elsewhere
I have been busy. Here are my posts from an assortment of sites: 4/5 LocalU: Video Deep Dive: Local Ranking Factors, Making Sense Of It All (now also available as a regular podcast) 4/3 StreetFight: The Coming DIY Cataclysm 4/3 LocalU: Video: Last Week in Local April 3rd, 2017 (now also available as a regular podcast) 3/31 GetFiveStars: Understanding Google Schema Guidelines: Review Snippets vs. …
Apple iMessage for iOS10 Rolls Out Conversational Commerce with Transactional Local Apps
Apple started shipping iOS10 with a new version of iMessage yesterday to the installed base of iPhone users. Welcome to the new era of conversation commerce for local. And with the new version of iMessage comes an App store and the ability for third parties to integrate directly into the messaging flow. When initially announced …
Local U Advanced – End of Super Early Bird Pricing & Speaker Interview with Joy Hawkins
The LocalU Advanced Super Early Bird Pricing ($599 or $549 for 3 or more) goes up $100 at the end of day 9/8/2016. So order today. To give you a sense of the kind of speakers and topics we will be dealing with we are interviewing some of the speakers. In this second interview of …
Google Mobile Search Results for Hotels, Restaurant and Other Entertainment Locations Updated
Google announced yesterday that mobile searchers would now be able to filter restaurant results more effectively. It appears that the mobile display for restaurants and hotels has also been updated and hotels also offer a filtering option. These new results are also showing for museums, music venues and amusement parks. The list of location types …
Local Weekend Update
What Else is New Dept: There is a new bug with the Google Report A Problem for SABs: If a user selects the report a problem link via Maps or G+ Local they get a “This page won’t load…We’ve tried everything” message. At least its cute. Although that sad face icon is eerily reminiscent of my first …
Who is Winning the Apple vs. Google iPhone Driving Directions Battle? Too Close to Call
Yesterday I published the first question of my driving direction survey showing an extremely fragmented market. It is a category led by Google but one that is fragmented and, after a long period of calm, is once again becoming heated. Apple, with the release of their own mapping product in September, has quickly garnered market …
Driving Directions Survey- A Fragmented But Important Market
Introduction: When we think of driving directions, we often think that Google’s omnipresent role in the world of Maps indicates that they dominate the market for directions. When Google surpassed Mapquest and Yahoo in desktop mapping in 2009, it seemed that it was game over. But the current reality of driving directions seems to …
Google Updates Mobile Pack Display
Google might have updated the mobile local Pack display a while ago, who knows, but it seems to me a fairly recent change. The change makes for a more modern, cleaner business listing display. The font size of the business name is larger and the buttons are subtler and now incude an icon for the …
Loci 2012 – Andrew Shotland
Andrew Shotland is a well-known SEO practitioner and author of www.localseoguide.com and the trendy new applemapsmarketing.com. His proudest achievement on the Web can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipkSRwgVtpA ************* When reflecting on the year, I like to think about it less in terms of specific niches like “local seo”, “seo” or even “local search”. It’s not that 2012 wasn’t a …
Loci 2012- Justin Sanger
Justin is the Founder and CEO of SupportLocal. He is recognized as a long-time innovator and leader in local search and social. In 2003, he founded LocalLaunch, a leading search engine marketing platform and products company. LocalLaunch was acquired by RH Donnelley/Dex One in 2006. Speaking around the world on the topics of local search …
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