Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Local Mobile"
Does Local need to be held to a higher standard? Miriam Ellis Responds
Miriam Ellis and her husband are a web development team in California with extensive practical experience in Local Search. She is always a voice for reason and ethical behavior and writes frequently about local search in her blog. Miriam understands the frustration of running a small business and often speaks of the needs of small …
Making Local Appointments on line
Last week I reported on the new service, Leavefeedback.org that elegantly closes the circle of consumers and small businesses. The New York Times reports on a new class of small business products that further brings local and smb’s together: Making Appointments for Doctor or Dinner that further embeds the internet in the lives of clients …
Does Local need to be held to a higher standard? Ahmed Farooq Responds
Given the recent reports (A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam) of mapspam at Yahoo that I perceived as possibly criminal, several folks responded that I had overreacted or mischaracterized the event. I started thinking about the legal, social and technical context for Local in our lives and whether if we didn’t hold it to …
Does Local need to be held to a higher standard? Danny Sullivan and Chris Silver Smith Respond
I have been thinking about Yahoo lately (big surprise that eh?) and have been mulling over in my head what is what in the world of Local. Thinking that I needed some more voices to compliment what is rattling around in my brain I wanted to hear what others had to say. I sent the …
Local Links of Interest
SPY CELLS: Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are – AMOL SHARMA and JESSICA E. VASCELLARO, WSJ Would you want other people to know, all day long, exactly where you are, right down to the street corner or restaurant?…..wireless carriers are betting that many of their customers do, and they’re rolling out services to make …
Local Links of Interest
Dash’s Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, if Others Participate – Walt Mossburg, WSJ I have not really been following the Dash but after having read Mossburg’s article in the WSJ it struck as quite significant that your car would act as a data “probe” to provide real time traffic information to a community of users. …
Local Links of Interest
Google’s LBC: Now With More Fiber– Mike Boland, Kelsey Group A good summary of how the inclusion of video in the Google LBC can benefit local search marketing. Interestingly, he points out that Google was allowing (c)ompanies such as TurnHere and eLocalListing were already uploading this content for their SMB clients via direct partnership, but …
Local Links of Interest
From Camel’s Eyelids to Auto-geolocation: the Future of Mobile and Local Search AIMClear Blog A good update of the local session at NY SES. Steered Wrong: Drivers Trust GPS Even to a Fault – Jennifer Saranow, Wall Street Journal What can you say?
M:Metrics Report: iPhone Internet Usage Far exceeds Market Average
In a report released today by M:Metrics it was noted that “the iPhone is already the most popular device for accessing news and information on the mobile Web, with 85 percent of iPhone users accessing news and information in the month of January.” Usage in other categories of internet access like watching video, listening to …
Local Links of Interest
Incomplete and Wrong Data in Google Local Search – Bill Slawski, SeobytheSea.com Bill covers some of the patents that relate to the post here last week: Google Plus Box – Where does the (wrong) data come from? Deer Blogs His Own GPS Position in Google Earth – Frank Taylor, Google Earth Blog A report on …
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