Facebook’s ranks and displays Nearby listings much as they newsfeed content, so the closest nearby businesses won’t necessarily appear simply because of their proximity to the user. Remember when Google+ pulled their existing local listings and...
What we see happening in the marketplace are two sets of businesses: User’s eyes are drawn to maps and local listings. Business that are ready to adopt mobile as a key channel. Business that don’t believe their financial services product set aligns...
This will be a huge opportunity next year for local businesses of all shapes and sizes to optimize their content for SEO and pull in this potential local audience. In Korea, Naver’s KnowledgeIn network is the second most popular feature on the...
Available snippets at the moment include those for reviews, events, recipes, people, products, and businesses. Many have said that there is more of a local listing ranking preference for manual submitted listings, but I’ve yet to see this.
The need to stay informed on what is impacting listings in Google Places is essential to every local business or the companies that handle their marketing. Basically, Google gives local placement in return for having businesses fill in the...
The latter translates to giving businesses a heads-up about the product roadmap. Places represents a simpler value proposition for SMBs to claim and populate listings, and of course advertise. Moves have included the transition from the Local...
Based on this information, Yelp launched a new set of tools for businesses to better evaluate leads they're getting from their mobile products. The main point is to make it more apparent to businesses that they're getting real leads from Yelp.
A new way to advertise: For just $25 per month, businesses in select cities can make their listings stand out on Google.com and Google Maps with Tags. Since then, four million businesses have claimed their Place Page on Google through the Local...
You know when you search something local on Google and it presents a map with local businesses listed to the right? Sponsored features are included with local biz listings. You'll notice one of the listings has a yellow box with the words "View...
Minimum of 10 bulk uploaded listings already in business owners' Local Business Center account Business owners have been able to bulk upload their local listings to Google Maps but have had to verify them individually.
With an outsourced local search application, affinity and utilitarian sites can now offer local businesses enhanced listings and even priority placement in the local results for greater revenue potential.
Google Launches Local Search Application for Android Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 4, 2009 "Places Directory" is a new app for Android that finds businesses that are close to your location. PPC listings at the right side of youtube search?
The dashboard can help local businesses understand how users are interacting with their local listings in Google Maps. You know that online maps and local listings can drive searchers to your business, but they don't always visit your website.
Survey question: What information do you expect to find when searching for local businesses online? It's been about a year since we tackled the topic of local listings. Local listings continue to present a challenge for advertisers looking to get...
The only way to counter this is to get your company in the listings and do it better than your competitors. The Google Local Business Center tells people to, "Stand out from your competitors by adding photos, videos and more.
And now that Google is showing more local results, even when a search query doesn't specifically include a location, it's becoming even more important for businesses to pay attention to local SEO. For businesses of all sizes, local SEO starts with...
Google Maps has released an instructional video for the Local Business Center to help their users maximize their business listings. Google allows local businesses to provide content for their listing on Map search.
As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are on the rise -- and so is the demand for local search. Now that you've taken the time to set up your business listings, you're on your...
Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, and Microsoft Webmaster Center make it easy for smaller travel businesses to succeed in organic search, and put you on a level playing field with the big guns.
Combine that with universal search and the opportunity to increase rankings by embedding video in local business listings or landing pages. For small businesses, this will also be driven by economics as digital production and distribution bring...
