Local & Mobile Search
Local search is poised for explosive growth. Add mobile search to the mix, and the local search landscape stands to provide even more opportunities for local businesses looking to target locally. So, what rules, strategies, and best practices apply when the corner mom-and-pop can advertise head-to-head with big-box national retailers? A panoply of new products and services are launched every week by major search engines and yellow page providers. Luckily, a local search guru can show you around the 'hood.
Bing could replace Google as the default iPhone search engine. What impact might this have on mobile local search?
Jan 22, 2010
How to parse out responsibilities for social media and set up a measurement dashboard for comparing local and national results.
Dec 18, 2009
How to develop a strategic plan that includes Web site management, paid, organic and mobile search, display ads, Internet yellow pages, local listing feeds, and user-generated content.
Dec 11, 2009
Highlights from the Local & Mobile Search Archive
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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