LocalBizBits Local Search Marketing Information and Resources
Some interesting data Palore has put together about how many restaurants nationwide have on line reviews. Their data was gathered from over 70 local and vertical sites. The map below shows what percentage of restaurants, in each state, has one or more user reviews on at least one site.
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LocalBizBits is on Top
Just a quick note to let everyone know that LocalBizBits in now listed at AllTop. For those not familiar, each Alltop site as like digital magazine rack of the Internet. Each AllTop site is a collection of all the “top stories” for that particular themr or topic. It looks like …
Read More »Local Search Survey
David Mihm, author of Mihmorandum, recently asked myself and a number of other highly respected local search SEMs about what we thought were the important aspects that influenced rankings in Google and Yahoo Local Universal search algorithms. The survey is Local Search Ranking Factors, Vol. 1 David did a great …
Read More »Where are SMB's Advertising these Days?
Starting today, I am starting a new feature here are LocalBizBits. The folks over at Palore.com crawl the Web to identify which local businesses advertise online, where they advertise, when, and how much they pay for their ads. Periodically I will be posting some of their research data. Today post …
Read More »CitySquares Expanding
I got a note the other day from my good friend Ben Saren about CitySquares expanding its tent pegs. From the press release: (you can download/read the full release here) “CitySquares.com, the premiere hyper-local search site serving Boston and its metropolitan area, is expanding into all of New England and …
Read More »Local Search Standards?
One of the biggest “problems” with on-line marketing is that there is no set standard to what we do. I have mentioned this before but today, I had lunch with my friend and associate Nick Stamoulis of Brick Marketing and we were talking about it. Because of this, small businesses …
Read More »SanGabe.biz – Local Business Center
Today we have a nice interview with Dan Vigil of San Gabriel Valley Newsgroup. Q. Tell the readers a little about yourself and your background. A. Most of my experience has been in advertising sales and small business development. I’ve helped start several companies here in the Southern California area …
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