The 3 Pillars of Local Search Reviews
If Local Search was a building, it was look something like this… (photo from the Telegraph) There are new things being added, subtracted, re-arranged, re-named,...
About
Mike Ramsey is the owner of Nifty Marketing, a Local Search Marketing company hailing from Burley, Idaho. His twitter handle is niftymarketing and he is a proud husband and father. Mike has lost 12 pounds on his local search recipe plan because after all, it’s not edible.
Articles
10 Local Search Tools I Simply Can’t Live Without
If you were to ask me what the biggest let down in the local search industry was a year ago, I would have answered without...
5 Things Google is Doing Wrong with Local Search
These last two months have been quite interesting with the launch of the Google Places O-Pack. It seems like everyone and their dog finally decided...
A Cornucopia Full of Local Search O-Pack Advice
Yes. Not only did I tie in the word cornucopia into a local search post, but I managed to spell it correctly as well. Now...
The 3 Major Causes of Duplicate Listings in Local Search
Over the past 2 months I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of 99.3% of the phone calls I have received involve companies who are...
The 4 Hardest Things About Conversion Optimization For Local Search
As I was perusing through some updates on twitter the other day I came across an Alan Bleiweiss article entitled CONVERSION OPTIMIZATION IS THE NEW...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings
It really doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a sinner or a saint for you to benefit from some lessons I have had to learn...
Local Search Recipe: Making KML Files and GEO Sitemaps Are a Piece of Cake.
Last month I shared one of my favorite recipes on tracking local search data with Google Analytics for wordpress. This month I figured that one...
Local Search Recipe: How to Track Local Analytics With WordPress…And Make Pies
I am a big fan of food. I think about it everyday, and if things go well I even get to have some on a...
An Extremely Nifty Guide to Reviews and Local Search
There is one area within the “Local Search Sphere” that brings a wide amount of debate when it comes to ranking impacts, importance, and ethical...
Google Now Showing Local Results for State Wide Searches
It is no news that Google is displaying local search results in the SERPS these days. If you are looking for anything from a dentist...