We gave foursquare.com a facelift — now it’s even easier to learn about places nearby – Foursquare BlogNice redesign for its 50 million+ monthly users makes better use of space for business listings. Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone...
As for the new product, we are also pleased to announce the introduction of the BOTW ProListing, which will enable site owners to add three pieces of featured content to their web directory listings. And as social exploded, we introduced social...
In 2011, Alibaba rolled out ETao, a comparison shopping engine that is said to have more than a billion product listings and over 5,000 business-to-consumer and group buying websites. While Alibaba did not share more details on Aliyun search except...
Feed Your Way to the Top of Local Listings will offer tips on how to optimize your local listings and product feed so potential customers can easily find you and convert. With 55 sessions on topics covering everything SEO, PPC, social, analytics...
The obvious opportunity is to charge for sponsored listings much like AdWords. It isn't clear how quickly this expansion will occur, but several Facebook product people are on record saying they still have work to do to figure out how to scale the...
With this idea in mind, I sat down with Steve King, Director of Product Strategy for SIM Partners to predict what Google might implement this year to improve, enhance, and monetize Google+ Local Page listings.
Product listings / shopping for buying signals. Move offline with your research with informal meet-ups, focus groups, and peer groups and ask simple questions like “how would you search for product or service x?
A well-executed local SEO strategy means that you have both a website that is optimized for location specific keyword terms, as well as optimized local business listings, such as Google+ Local and Bing Local.
Business that don’t believe their financial services product set aligns well to mobile behaviors (completing a mortgage app on a phone), and therefore avoid prioritization of their mobile strategy. User’s eyes are drawn to maps and local listings.
In addition, it's possible that Google will reduce the number of organic listings on page 1. YouTube, Google+, PLAs (product listing ads), and Google Local will see increased visibility. This will include both Google authorship as well as product...
And this can be from any source - paid search, SEO, local listings and display ads. Another example if you have a description of the product right on the landing page, and your phone number on the same page.
Back in the day, you could usually depend on top listings to be authorities. Given a truly poor site that was not user-friendly, was full of nothing but boring product descriptions, and wasn't one I'd ever buy a thing from, I could help them easily...
Google does indeed have the right to ban product categories from paid search listings at their discretion. Guns and accessories, ammunition, knives, and other weapons are no longer allowed in Google Shopping listings, though consumers will still...
Build a Google+ page for your business and follow businesses that are related to your product or service niche. Google Local Listings have been absorbed into Google+, so be sure to check out this great resource over at Blumenthals.com to keep up to...
Are your local and product listings linked correctly? These 10 “events” will ensure that your campaigns are perfect so your consumers award you the gold medal of their business. Are your keywords tagged so that you can track the tremendous value...
More importantly, all Google local business listings will be merged and used across search, Maps, mobile and Google+. In local, our vision is not a one-size-fits-all product, but a range of flexible solutions that make the Web work for all local...
Google Places have been swallowed up by Google+ Local Pages, merging all business listings into one to be used across search, Maps, mobile, and Google+. Users can access enhanced local listings via a new Local tab in the left sidebar of Google+, by...
Shannon Parker, director of product marketing for Yahoo Small Business, said Yahoo plans to add a few more vendors to the mix. The Yahoo Marketing Dashboard has four components: search engine and directory listings; online reputation management...
But business events are something you can prepare for, said Goffman Marketers need to anticipate what people will be searching for during business or recurring events, such as trade shows, large acquisitions, or product launches.
Officially in alpha, according to backend partner Universal Business Listings, the LPI program will offer top organic rankings in local listings for a fee, sources told Search Engine Watch. One source said plans called for the paid listings to be...
