ARTICLES - LOCAL SEARCH

  • Online Edition

    10 Essential Strategies for Promoting your Local Business Online

    Trevor Ahlert , semApex.com - Local Search

    Even though its often referred to as the World Wide Web, the Internet is a powerful tool for promoting your business locally. Many sites, including Google and Yahoo, cater to localized businesses and provide local maps and business information directly...

  • Online Edition

    Understanding Local Search – The Google Maps Algorithm

    Mary Bowling , seOverflow - Local Search

    The Google Local 7 Pack currently dominates the Search Engine Results Pages for many queries, with preferred positioning above the organic results. It pushes the organic results down the page, leaving most of them below the fold and off the screen. People...

  • Summer 2009

    Finding Customers Before They Search

    Tim Kendall , Facebook - Local Search

    Search is a powerful tool for marketers when their customers are actively looking for a product or service. When there’s already demand, search helps fulfill it. And that has made search a major force in online advertising. What about all those...

  • Summer 2009

    When It Comes to Local Advertising, You Get What You Pay For

    Gib Olander , Localeze - Local Search

    I’m a former ad man for the yellow pages industry, so I understand the old precept that says, “Advertising is sold not bought.”  I also believe that advertising works when it’s done the right way; after all, I own a ShamWow...

  • Winter 2008

    Local Search Engine Content Management – A Key to Organic Traction

    David Dague, Localeze - Local Search

    A local search takes place when a consumer uses a major search engine, an online Yellow Pages or specialized Internet directory to find local products or services by entering keywords alongside a geo-modifier. Local results are presented in three ways;...

  • September 2008

    Mapping Local-Online and Mobile Ad Dollars

    Robert Travis, Lat49.com - Local Search

    Everyone uses online maps these days. Everyone. Last week, I was pretty sure I caught one of my dogs online, mapping out our latest walk and rating it for distance and quality… and then there’s my aunt – she spends about half of her...

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