by Greg Patterson on October 4, 2009
Here are a couple of amazing statistics regarding local search. Every month more than 1.3 billon local searches are conducted and of all users online 82% regularly perform local searches. What’s more 80% of family budgets are spent within a 50 mile radius of home. Local search might as well be called map search because [...]
by Greg Patterson on October 3, 2009
Learning Search Engine Optimization
Search engines typically show only 10 results on each page (not counting sponsored links or for local searches when local 3 pak or 10 pak maps also appear). The majority of searchers are most likely to click on the top few returned results. So if you rank at or near the top [...]
by Greg Patterson on September 12, 2009
Are you are looking to maximize your businesses Google Local Listing results? Then just like one of those celebrity cooking chefs you need to know how to spice them up. Why? Because by taking advantage of all that Google offers in their Local Business Center you can only improve your results.
Google is constantly tweaking its [...]
by Greg Patterson on September 8, 2009
If you haven’t claimed your business in Google Maps or Yahoo! Local, you should do so as soon as possible. Why? There have been numerous reports over the last six months of unclaimed listings being hijacked by map spammers where an established local businesses listing is “claimed” and then the listing is pointed to the [...]