Google finally launched phone support for Google+ Local Pages listings verification, something unheard of for a non-revenue generating service offered by Google. Perhaps the most obvious and simple change Google could make to its Google+ Local...
Google and Bing have allocated the top of their search results pages to locallistings, when a search has local intent. A well-executed local SEO strategy means that you have both a website that is optimized for location specific keyword terms, as...
The site overtook MySpace on Alexa's listings in 2008 and hasn't looked back since. At least part of the secret of Facebook's success is the fact that it manages to present itself as both a global and localservice.
Back in the day, you could usually depend on top listings to be authorities. I'd create a service where I worked with local high school and college students who'd drive to help elderly people bathe their dogs and submit this as a press release in...
Sometimes, SEO is a matter of helping companies do better with their local/map listings. If you provide certain services, you could make a pretty convincing argument that you should have a page on your site for each specific service that you...
The categories most prone to listings hijackers are largely service-based businesses and include: Most of these individuals were trying to hijack listings by claiming the listing’s address and changing the category to a service-to-home category.
Integrating daily deals with business listings increases the reach and distribution of the deal and captures consumers in an advanced stage of the buying cycle when they are specifically seeking a particular experience, service, or item.
Bing Feature Update: Check your local TV listings with Bing - Bing Search Blog Localeze's ambitions to be the single management source for all locallistings on the web got yet another boost yesterday.
With the widest distribution of standardized content to online, mobile and social search platforms in the industry, developers can access the largest set of verified, enhanced business listings data actively managed by local businesses themselves.
Should there be any major changes to the website, then often feeds need to be resubmitted causing a delay in how up-to-date the listings appear on the search engines. After connecting, the two quickly agreed to a partnership and began refining the...
What's worse, up to 25 percent of the anchor NAP information in local business listings is outdated, inaccurate, or completely missing. Local businesses must provide consumers with the information they need to make an informed purchase -- an...
Every business needs to claim their locallistings through the business centers of localsearch engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Claim Your Listings Depending on your vertical, you may also want to consider claiming your listings on other...
Localeze, the business listings identity management provider for localsearch, have a lot in the pipeline for the near and longer-term future. Localeze, which manages locallistings for search engines, is set to announce another social partnership...
While to not dwell in what you should have done years ago, your presence should have been built upon sound on-site localsearch practices containing localized pages with geo-centric content, images and videos, as well as the creation of local...
Any combination of images, videos, PlusBoxes, icons, product listings and multiple text ad links can now appear mixed in with paid search ads. In the past few years, Google has made significant improvements in the relevance of their organic search...
The interesting thing for Google has always been that satisfied searchers on organic listings are good for business (more likely to return, more likely to trust the sponsored stuff). I agree that Google will increasingly identify itself as a...
OK, so what happens when you change your business phone number and no one bothers to update all your local business listings that are floating all over the internet? Yeah, the first phone number I found for Foster's Pharmacy wasn't in service anymore.
SLI's Site Champion service creates optimised pages to increase a retailer's visibility in natural search engine listings and increase site traffic. If you look over the list of participating sponsors and exhibitors, you'll see Premier Plus...
Social offers a tremendous opportunity to gain additional listings, drive up link popularity, and position you well in "secondary" search engines, such as YouTube. Once you bridge the knowledge gap, you can review how to use these listings for your...