Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'local search'

David Mihm spent a considerable amount of time compiling a great local search ranking factors guide where he talks about the various factors that influence local search. In the document, you can see the emphasis on a variety of optimization...

Posted on June 18, 2008 9:51 AM

Last week Yahoo added a nifty feature to Yahoo Local Search. For example, let's say you are looking for the nearest ATM machine. You can type in ATM, and then your zip code. But you won't be shown the nearest...

Posted on April 28, 2008 7:29 AM

In a post entitled Does Your Business Qualify for Local SEO?, Cre8asite forum member SEOigloo poses the question about whether your business website can take advantage of local SEO. Here's what's necessary: If the business serves only within a fixed...

Posted on March 4, 2008 9:19 AM

Mike Blumenthal posted a thread at Google Groups reporting issues with Google Maps not showingCitysearch's content. Google's official maps representative, Maps Guide Jen, responded that this seems to be a temporary issue between Citysearch and Google. Citysearch's content is currently...

Posted on January 9, 2008 7:55 AM

Chris Sherman starts the session off by introducing Mobile Search as an ever-increasing build-up of new ideas that will soon catch up with earlier expectations of consumers. You can't optimise for mobile in the same way as you do for...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on April 10, 2007 3:34 PM

In a launch almost unmentioned at the end of last month, Yell (a UK equivalent to SuperPages) has launched its own PPC advertising solution. According to a discussion on WebmasterWorld, Yell is using the backend of European search portal (and...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on April 4, 2007 6:07 PM

New Search Engine Watch forum member johnno123 has started a topic regarding country filtering at Google Australia; where the option to only view "pages from Australia" is given. A similar option is given on most (if not all) non-US Google...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on January 13, 2007 12:45 PM

Local Launch has been officially acquired by R.H. Donnelley. Local Launch! is a privately held company and terms of the transaction were not disclosed. R.H. Donnelley does not expect this acquisition to affect the current guidance for full-year 2006 revenue,...

Posted on September 8, 2006 6:44 AM

The local paid search industry is expected to double in a year, according to a MediaPost report on a Borrell Associates study. Paid local search is expected to remain the fastest-growing ad category, nearly doubling to $1.8 billion and accounting...

Posted on September 7, 2006 10:44 AM

TrueLocal, the owner is a very well known forum personality from WebmasterWorld, bakedjake, has launched a Canadian version of TrueLocal at http://www.truelocal.ca/. As an FYI, Jake lives in Canada. The article Brett Tabke linked to from the WebmasterWorld thread says;...

Posted on August 31, 2006 8:04 AM