Local SEO and local online marketing is an excellent way to help local consumers connect with your business. Bing Places for Business is a place to connect your company with local consumers in a quick and easy way by simply listing your business...
BrightLocal has revealed insights from their new consumer review survey looking at local search. Not surprisingly, the usage of local search has increased over the past couple of years, as well as the types of businesses that people are searching for.
By putting together a simple survey in SurveyMonkey – or simply asking people in your local coffee shop if your target audience is more broad – you're able to glean a lot about how users actually search.
So if you haven't already it's time to add local search optimization to your marketing plan. With the rise of smartphones and mapping apps we're living in the era of local search and discovery. Google's Knowledge Graph - showing information...
However, data is, and will increasingly become, especially powerful to those seeking to leverage search, social, mobile, local, video, marketing and emerging technology, to compete and earn more market share.
Over the last 12 months we have witnessed a content marketing explosion and a rapid evolution in search and social media marketing techniques. It is the relationship between structured data and search marketing that is of topic relevance to today’s...
Unfortunately, amidst the excitement, it seemed that its impact on search – especially for local – was overlooked. This article will touch on two key changes in the search marketing industry: Social/Mobile/Local marketing (that thing people call...
Use the terms in this report to learn more about how your customers search for you both in terms and intent to help craft your online marketing strategies. On search engines, it's all about the keyword.
Chris Dyson: In Online Marketing Circles (SEO, Social Media etc) it seems almost impossible to go more than a week without seeing an egobait post in the echo chamber. Gaz Copeland: I do a lot of work with a local photography business and one of the...
The brands that are tuned in to that simple fact, like Google, are the ones that will win out in the future not just of search but of marketing overall. A Glimpse of the Future of Predictive Search At the recent Google I/O conference, several new...
Some will benefit most from local optimization; others are geared towards mobile search. As Google matures as a search engine, silver bullets are becoming rarer and rarer. Article marketing sites. Only rely on desktop search?
Until recently, after the visitor signed up for a free account, I didn't focus any of my paid search efforts on trying to get the visitor to become a paid member, leaving that effort to either our display marketing folks or their internal non-PPC...
The view has changed over the years – from 10 blue links to maps to local search to universal search and personalization. It's fairly easy to mark this up – and it provides extra links in the search results that can increase your organic click...
When it comes to local online marketing, visibility is incredibly important. Luckily, there are several options – including Google+ Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Facebook Graph Search, and Yahoo Local – to create a presence for your business and gain...
They fail to see that SEO in 2013 is now integral to online marketing and no longer a standalone activity. This prospect creates fear for many small businesses who depend on search engine optimization (SEO) for their livelihoods.
According to a study by Mainstay Salire, local Facebook pages receive five times more marketing reach and eight times more engagement per fan than corporate pages. More than a year ago, for example, Google+ local marketing pilot programs were...
In an article for Search Engine Watch earlier this month, Guillaume Bouchard forecast how to optimize for Google Now, citing local SEO as something to keep an eye on. What is the future of search, and more importantly, what does the future of...
From search marketing to social media, these are business game changers that open new opportunities and avenues to achieve a competitive edge. Every five years or so, we see the emergence and maturity of something really significant in the ever...
Earlier this month, we learned that local search via non-PC devices more than quadrupled in 2012, according to a study by the Local Search Association. Mobile isn’t just for finding local merchants to start the shopping experience.
The third edition of his "Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprint for effective Internet marketing" is fabulous for budding SEOs, and still proves to be a great reference guide for SEO professionals of all levels.
