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Category: Local Search

Bing Adds Carousel For Local Searches After Google Drops The Feature

Remember when Google was messing around with the carousel feature?  Well, as some of you have noticed, they dropped the user interface and went to a local 3-pack of results. Bing is now using a carousel format for their own local search results user interface.  So if you’re real hungry and you decide to search for […]

Pigeon Has Dropped A Big One Over Big Local Brands. Why Did It Do This?

There were a lot of discussions going on during the events of SMX, and David Mihm, Adam Dorman and Andrew Shotland were there at the Desconstructing Pigeon Panel talking about the algorithm and its affect on the local search engine results pages. Although there was certainly a good amount of information discussed, one thing that didn’t make […]

How Will Apple Watch Handle Local Search?

About a month ago, Apple unleashed the news on its smartwatch on September 9th, 2014.  The smartwatch, which will be known as Apple Watch, will hit shelves early 2015.  Since it’s Apple, you know that this watch is going to have plenty of features that Apple hopes a number of people will certainly love.  But […]

Pigeon Advice from Top Local SEOs and a Pigeon-Proofing Checklist

When we think about it, we all need a little advice from time to time.  Or sometimes we have to give out plenty of advice as well.  In the local SEO field, this is no exception.  Back in July, Google had rolled out the Pigeon update, and questions have been rolling in from various clients […]

Does Google’s Review Count Inflation Give Them An Unfair Advantage In Local Search?

Reviews for brands and businesses are always going to be important for that company to be able to bring in even more customers.  Without reviews, nobody will really know if your business is good, bad, has great services or quality services and products.  The benefits that come can come from positive reviews are: Increased Sales A better […]

Survey: Older Generations Embrace Mobile As Local Shopping Companion

We’ve heard it all before.  The people of the younger generations are the ones who are more likely to use more high tech, more current level devices now-a-days, where our parents and grandparents are stuck in the backwash of older technology, never caring to use things like mobile phones and tablets, right? Well, as it […]

Local Landing Pages: A Guide To Great Implementation In Every Situation

Recently, local SEO blogs have been filled with terms like “city landing pages” and “service area pages”.  There are some business owners out there who are wondering if this type of business model would be a good match for them.  Luckily, if you are a business owner,and you’ve thought about this as well, you wouldn’t […]

Foursquare Becomes The Local Data Aggregator?

I personally don’t use Foursquare, so to be honest, I had no idea exactly the sort of service that Foursquare provided.  After taking a quick hop, skip and a jump over to the Foursquare website, I quickly realized what it’s all about.  It’s all about local places all around you and the things that you […]

Checking In: Our Top Local Search Columns Of 2013

Are  you a small business?  Perhaps you are, and you would like to get a little more visibility.  One way to do this would be to get yourself into digital marketing.  But, you’ll notice very quickly the importance to get seen within the local search results. The official launch of Google’s Knowledge Graph Carousel for local […]