Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Local Mobile"
iPhone SDK: a tipping point for Local Search?
Apple’s announcement of their software development kit was big in the tech news arena but got scant coverage in the search world. From where I sit, it appears to be a seminal event that will define local search for the next decade and will lead to a dramatic upsurge in hyper local searches. There was …
Local Links of Interest
KML: HTML for the Geoweb – Christopher Schmidt, TechnicalRamblings KML has become the “HTML†of the Geographic Web. With limited semantic meaning, a combination of mostly-human understandable XML tags for the majority of the usages, widespread use and abuse for purposes far beyond the original thoughts and intentions of the designers, and more, KML fits …
Local Links of Interest
Evidence Clear: Better Usability = More Mobile Internet Usage – Greg Sterling Localmobilesearch.com AT&T Mobility president and CEO Ralph de la Vega reportedly told audience members at the GSMA Mobile World Congress Thursday that 95% of iPhone owners surf the mobile Web, although only 30% had done so before. About half have also watched videos …
Local is “over rated” – Local is “under rated”
This was mostly written as a response to comments in my interview with Miriam at SEOIgloo. I realized that I can only write so many words before breakfast so I have posted the comment slightly changed here. There are those who say that “local search gets no respect, it should be important to all” and …
Local Links of Interest
Google News’ New Local Angle – Greg Sterling, SEL detailing Google’s new local news service, similar to topix.com In CBS Test, Mobile Ads Find Users – Laura Holson, NY Times CBS plans to announce on Wednesday that it is trying one of the first serious experiments with cellphone advertising that is customized for a person’s …
Is iPhone Demand Fading or is ATT Failing?
At LocalMobileSearch, Greg Sterling raised the question: Is iPhone Demand Fading? I am not sure but if my experience is any indication it is more likely ATT shooting themselves in the foot. I went to an ATT store yesterday with a small business person who wanted to buy 3 iPhones. He was willing & ready …
Mobile User Survey Redux: the Late Adopter
After Greg Sterling surveyed SEL readers on their mobile internet usage patterns, I thought it would be interesting to survey a totally distinct user group. Greg agreed and we surveyed the 1123 registered readers of OleanInfo.com, of those 124 took the survey. OleanInfo.com is a local portal site catering to folks interested in Olean NY. …
SEL Survey Data & Comparison
Mobile User Survey Redux: the Late Adopter After Greg Sterling surveyed SEL readers on their mobile internet usage patterns, I thought it would be interesting to survey a totally distinct user group. Greg agreed and we surveyed the 1123 registered readers of OleanInfo.com, a local portal site catering to folks interested in Olean NY. Roughly …
Most read articles for 2008
Here are the top 10 read articles from Understanding Google Maps over the past 12 months: 1. Which On-line Directories provide details to Google Maps 2. First Case of Large Scale Abuse at Google Maps 3. Google Coupons now has searchable interface 4. Now taking Nominations for the Rubber Chicken Awards 5. Sources for Google …
Local Links of Interest
8 White-Hot Trends Lift Local Search in ’08 – Michael Boland, Search Engine Watch Eight local search trends will rock the search engine world in ’08. Here are the ones with the most momentum as we roll into the New Year Amazon Kindle does Maps – Joshua Topolsky, Engadget Users of the device have been …
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