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Learn the latest trends and tips that will help your local business grow using local search optimization, local marketing, and local advertising.
Learn the latest trends and tips that will help your local business grow using local search optimization, local marketing, and local advertising.
This week has been filled with news and commentary regarding Yahoo’s release of the new Yahoo! Local. The enhanced system integrates a number of new...
A simplified way to “embed” Google Maps is apparently coming from Google next week, according to this story, in the Sydney Morning Herald: Google will...
AOL has launched a beta version of their new AOL Mobile Search product which takes advantage of AOL properties such as Moviefone, MapQuest and AOL...
For all the criticizing I do of Google, they’ve really hit upon a gold mine with Google Maps and in particular, their development of the...
Google has discontinued its Click-to-Call feature for Google Maps which the company says was a long running experiment. This feature was a long-running experiment, and...
So you recently went to search for your local small business site and wondered why three other similar businesses came up before yours? The answer...
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the...
Drawing partly on its relationship with Zillow, Yahoo! is launching an improved “HomeValues” section as part of Yahoo! Real Estate. It’s also integrating more community...
Trulia has it, Yelp has it, Ask.com has it (there may be others) and now Google has it: neighborhood search capability. The benefits and rationale...
Google has taken up so much “shelf space” with coverage recently it’s hard to get to much else with any depth. But there are lots...
John Hanke, Director Google Earth & Maps, announces the new blog: As web mapping (dare I say “the geoweb”?) matures, we’re finding that we have...
Yahoo’s oneSearch beta, their user friendly mobile search offering which has changed the way that I search via my mobile phone, is expanding into Canada,...
Today, IAC’s Citysearch becomes the first major local search consumer destination to add video on any kind of scale (note the qualifiers). In addition to...
Last December Google introduced the Local Business Center and allowed businesses to provide their address, phone numbers, website, offered services, business hours, accepted payment methods,...
From the Yahoo! Maps and Local Blog: Based on a lot of user input, the latest update we’ve made to the Broadband version of Yahoo!...
Last week Yahoo introduced their oneSearch mobile search experience for the majority of cell phones which offer Internet access. This week, Yahoo is working to...
One reason I use Yahoo Maps is its ability to send directions to the mobile phone via text messaging, a feature which I along with...
Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded the reach of its Yahoo! oneSearch service beyond Yahoo Go users and to all US mobile web users....
Local.com and Idearc Media Corp. today announced a distribution agreement that allows Idearc to place its Superpages.com advertisers’ content on Local.com. Superpages.com’s advertisers will receive...
Loren’s post and Matt Cutts comment about sites being de-listed from Google because of down-time and also some discussions about problems with site moves from one...
There’s something of a dance going on between the new AskCity, which got huge amounts of coverage since launch a week or so ago, and...
Local.com has debuted a new online gift guide to make it easier for consumers to shop for holiday gifts in their area via Local.com, here’s...
Tomorrow TrueLocal, the local search engine, will be launching their XML services which will allow publishers to syndicate TrueLocal search results to their sites, blogs,...
Bill Slawski has an extensive post about a new Google patent application pertaining to local, which factors in other information in determining location ranking vs....
Today Ask.com has launched its highly anticipated new local search & mapping offering, AskCity. Considered in part to be a replacement for CitySearch, but much...
Google Local’s New Head is Real Estate and Newspaper Classified Expert Peter Krasilovsky at Local Online has the scoop and background info on Sam Sebastian,...
Searching for Beer in Chicago : Local Search Gets Bent Talk about niche vertical search, the Chicago.com local vertical search engine is getting even more...
ShopLocal & the ‘Offline’ Future of Online Shopping I have seen the future of online shopping and it’s ShopLocal. Okay, so maybe that statement is...
Family Watchdog is run by the National Coalition of Victims in Action. It uses a local map search to display sex offenders in specific areas.
Local.com Offers Local Search Service for Regional Sites Local.com is now offering a new service for local publishers – LocalConnect, which is a private label...