Archive for May, 2009
What Is Important in Local Search?
For the second year in a row, David Mihm has put together his incredible Local Search Ranking Factors survey. David’s motivation? “It is my hope that this study will help small business owners confused by Local Search, or those strapped for time, to prioritize their marketing efforts.” The Internet and search engines are changing and [...]
iLPS-YellowSpaces iPhone App Launch
Today marks the official launch of the YellowSpaces iphone app, iLPS. With that I continue my conversation with Constantin S. Manta of YellowSpaces. Q. Why did you decide to make a mobile app also? A. I believe mobile is the purest form of local. I also noticed that the IYPs rushed to the marketplace basic [...]
YellowSpaces-a new local search engine
If you have spent anytime reading the search engine marketing blogs or tweets, you undoubtedly have heard of YellowSpaces- a new local search engine that recently went live. Greg Sterling had a nice post/interview on the site. Well, Constantin S. Manta, the man behind this site, was gracious to give me some time for this [...]
Articles to Read
Found a few good articles for you to review: Gauging The Online Visibility Of SMBs by Hanan Lifshitz. Thoguht this was a nice follow up from his last article over at Search Engine Land Twitter and Local Search: A Status Update by Mike Boland at Search Engine Watch. One article that Mike mentioned in his [...]
Local Twitter Tools and Sites
With all of this talk about Twitter, what are some the sites or tools you can use for Twitter, specifically local related tweets? (the descriptions come from the respective websites) TwitterHawk “TwitterHawk is a real time targeted marketing engine that will find people talking on twitter now by your chosen topic and location, allowing you [...]
Local Search in the Twittersphere
My regular readers should have noticed by now, there is a new tab of the top of the blog: “What is being said about local search” I have set up this page to provide a quick and easy way for you to see what is being said about local search and other topics (my choosing) [...]
Twitter and Local Business
There have been a number of excellent articles on Twitter and how local business can and are using Twitter to connect and promote. Here are the ones that I recommend: Can Twitter Be Useful For Business? by Dave Wallace. Dave provides 5 points he believes Twitter can help small business. They are: Puts a Human [...]
