Local & Mobile Search
With the advent of universal and blended search, ranking well in local search results is even more important, especially for a small business, or a national business with a local presence. And advances in search and mobile technology may mean the time is finally ripe for mobile search to fulfill its long-standing promise of being the next big thing.
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Consumers are increasingly relying on smartphones and other mobile devices to select local businesses and brands. Consider these trends.
Nov 13, 2009
Google and Bing strike deals giving them access to real-time social feeds. What does it mean for the future of local search?
Oct 30, 2009
A study identifies how consumers use mobile, Google Maps, ratings, reviews, and Internet yellow pages to obtain information about local businesses.
Oct 16, 2009
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Are you looking to venture beyond the printed yellow pages? You should be. As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are turning to local search.
Mobile content ads have to work especially hard, given their small size. The Content Advertising series winds up with a recap of best practices for designing small ads with big impact.
Creating a mobile ad campaign that displays banner ads on Google's mobile content network can be ideal for businesses that rely on phone calls to start or close a sale. And it won't require mobile Web site design, because clicks on the ad will be directed to a Google-supplied mobile-friendly page describing your business.
Mobile advertising revenue is expected to dwarf current ad spend on search and content networks. Understanding the dynamics of mobile search advertising is an essential starting point to creating great mobile content ad campaigns.
Now that you've mastered "traditional" content advertising, it's time to take on the category that Google says will deliver revenue that dwarfs search advertising: mobile.
One of the biggest challenges resulting from the growth in mobile Web use is measurement. Conventional Web analytics applications don't do a good job of tracking mobile Web site usage, making it difficult to tune and enhance your mobile Web site's performance.
The latest local search survey statistics: Who's online and what they're up to.
Why Ingenio's apple of AT&T "I phone" local search strategy.
Google gambles on Android dreams: everybody wins?
The local merchant social network brings some complementary elements to Citysearch's offering.
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