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Category Archive For "Local Search"
Principles for a Review Plan: Considerations in encouraging customer reviews
Asking for feedback & testimonials from customers has been a long term practice in the business world. The practice has morphed to some degree by new exposure that on-line review platforms have provided to this information. The rewards are much greater and the affect of running afoul of the community standards can be severe. Yelp …
Loci2009: Lisa Barone – Articles from 2009 that Caused Pause for Though
Here are some of the links that made me think this year: * If I Were Launching a New Small Biz Website Today – Matt McGee * Why Local SEO Is Important to Non-Local SEO – Patrick Sexton * Google Place Pages SEO = Yellow Pages SOS & SOL? – Local SEO Guide * How …
Loci2009: Greg Sterling: An Explosion of Interest in “Local” in 2009
I’ve been watching what we now call the “local online market” or “local search market” for about a decade. And finally in the past year we’ve seen an explosion of interest in “local.” Strangely, the mobile handset arms race and growth of the mobile Internet this year have made the concept of local more accessible …
GetListed.org Local University Inaugural Event in Spokane
As you know, I think that all searches, like politics, are local. Knowledge should be as well. There is a huge disconect between what is happening in “local” and many of the businesses on the street that really need to leverage the possibilities for marketing that come from that knowledge. We hope that Getlisted.org Local …
Semmy’s: Honoring Search Articles from 2009
The Matt McGee‘s annual Semmy Awards have been announced and 3 of my articles published this year have been nominated. My thanks go out to Matt (and his many minions) for all of his effort in recognizing the many great articles from throughout the year. It is a monumental task to track, collate and order …
Loci2009: Gib Olander’s Important Trends and Directions in Local
So not all of these posts were explicitly about local but I think they all discuss leading trends and toward solving problems that local is dealing with or will be dealing with in the near future. Here are eight posts from 2009 that sum up the year and point toward where we are going in …
Loci2009: Seb Provencher’s Inspirational Local Developments in 2009 and Predictions for 2010
Looking back, I believe 2009 was a transition year in the local media space. Mobile finally came of age after many years of broken promises and put “geo” front and center. Social media became a hot topic in the local media circles, something that was almost unthinkable 3 years ago when I started blogging about …
Loci2009: Matt McGee’s Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009
It seems to me that the two most important developments in local search during 2009 both came from Google. I suppose that’s not much of a surprise in the current local environment, is it? Here’s my top two: Google Shows Local/Map Results on Generic Queries — you wrote about this on your blog, I wrote …
Loci 2009: Daniel Tunkelang’s Interesting Local Posts of 2009
Daniel Tunkelang is one of those individuals that you probably know little about but who will be influencing our lives a great deal going forward. Since November 2009 he has been the a Tech Lead/Manager on the local search team at Google and has a long history of heavy hitting in the search environment. His …
Loci 2009: David Mihm’s Most Important Articles in Local Last Year
David Mihm, well known for his writing on his blog & at SearchEngineLand and for his work on Getlisted.org, an smb local listing management tool, offers up the articles that he found most important over the past twelve months… ***** There were a ton of great articles in the Local Search industry this year & …
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