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Local Search Opportunities with Bing Mobile
One area that Bing is really stepping up its efforts to better compete with the other search engines is in mobile search. Justin Jed, the Group Product Manager for Bing Mobile Search, believes in their product because it focuses on what users want.
SEO Still Leading Player in Business Success
Google recently rolled out a few changes regarding Local Search and Google Maps that will help local businesses tremendously. Although local search engines provide valuable information and businesses need to utilize their ability, most users still turn to the major search engines for their answers. As a result, Google is helping both searchers and local businesses by displaying a Google map and 10 local listings on its first results page even if the searcher hasn’t specified a geographic location.
comScore Reports on Search Growth
According to comScore year over year data, the U.S. has a strong search market. (It’s great to read a sentence that has the words “market” and “strong” in it, huh?) In this video, Jenni Tafoya of comScore gives us a positive report based upon their data. To be exact, comScore found that total U.S. searches to be at 18.7 billion, which is up 38 percent year-over-year.
SMX West 2009: Improving Google Maps Search Rankings
Chris Silver Smith names four factors that can influence search rankings in Google Maps. The first is how close a company’s address is to a city center. He admits that this is hard to control, of course, and luckily for far-flung firms, Google has been de-emphasizing it lately.
SES Chicago: Utilizing Maps for Your Business
“Maps: They’re Not Just for Driving Anymore” was the title of one of the sessions at SES Chicago. It is interesting to see how maps truly have evolved and are not just for driving or for directions or for learning geography. They now have a much deeper meaning as Sage Lewis of SageRock explains in this video.
Leverage Local Listings in Live Search
Is your business listed with Live Search Local Listing Center? According to Jeremiah Andrick of MSN Live Search Webmaster Center, many searchers use Live Search Local to find local businesses just as they would use YellowPages. Jeremiah explains how you can easily take control of a new or existing listing by one simple click. Watch his full explanation only on WebProNews.
SMX West 2008: Chris Smith
Chris “Silver” Smith the Lead GravityStream Strategist for Netconcepts spoke with Mike McDonald of WebProNews during SMX West 2008, in Santa Clara. Because universal and blended search has really taken off in the last couple of years, many discussions at the conference revolved around the topic. While this conversation was no exception, it did center [...]
SES Chicago 2007: Manish Patel of Where2GetIt
Manish Patel, the CEO of Where2GetIt, talked with WebProNews at SES Chicago 2007. Patel discusses how his company drives consumers by helping them buy products either online or offline. He also tells how consumers are now in control of the market. Check out Manish Patel’s explanation to Kara Ratliff, right here on WebProNews.
SES San Jose: Paul O’Brien on Local Search
WebProNews caught up with Paul O’Brien of zvents.com at SES San Jose. O’Brien talks about his company’s reintroduction of their product as a local search engine. Zvents.com wants to allow users to search for things to do, instead of simply bringing up business listings at a local level. For more information including tips for marketers [...]
SES: SEO by the Sea’s Bill Slawski and Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal on Local Search and the Blogger’s Code of Ethics
As local search evolves, it raises a lot of opinions. Another topic that raises many opinions is Tim O’Reilly and Jimmy Wales’ Blogger’s Code of Conduct. In an interview with WebProNews, SEO by the Sea’s President Bill Slawski and Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal, spoke with us about these very issues.
Local search depends on [...]