For most of us, going online when we need to locate a specific product or particular service provider is second nature. Our knee jerk reaction is to log on and surf the offerings of the World Wide Web; ironic when you consider that we may be searching for something as localized as a window cleaner [...]
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Google 411 vs Other Free 411 Services | Today’s Mobile Search Bridge to Local Search
Joe Whyte
April 16th, 2007
Tags : Blog, Local Search, Mobile Search1-800-GOOG-411
Since the release of the beta version of Google 411 there has been a steady growth of buzz regarding it. I hate paying the charge for normal 411 which oftentimes returns inaccurate results. With Google 411, it returns a very good percentage of accurate results using Google Local although there could be improvements on the [...]
Your Local Business SEM Market Just Got Hotter
Garrett French
January 30th, 2007
Tags : Blog, Local SearchHey SEM, your local small business market could be riper than you thought.
Especially with this news reported by Matt McGee: Google Maps push further into regular SERPs.
In this post McGee took news from Google and offered some key observations that I’ll excerpt for you here:
1) “Google is trumpeting the fact that this new display now [...]
Dash + Yahoo Local = In-Car Local Search Coming in Q4
Garrett French
January 3rd, 2007
Tags : Blog, Local SearchMany moons ago I wrote about a supposed partnership between Google and Volkswagon on a navigation system. I never heard much more about it after that.
This news of Dash + Yahoo seems a little more substantial - and more practical as it appears that the actual navigation hardware device is portable from car to car.
Yahoo [...]
17 Online Directories Used in Google Local
Garrett French
December 19th, 2006
Tags : Blog, Local SearchIf you do any online marketing for small local companies, or huge companies with thousands of local brick and mortar locations I suggest you hustle over to check out Which On-line Directories provide details to Google Maps.
In analysis Mike Blumenthal found that of 16 restaurants in Buffalo New York, 10 of them have data from [...]
