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Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2010
Jeff Beard |
Who's the Best Authority to Own and Manage Business Listings? More consumers are searching on various platforms for local products and services. Here's how you can improve your SERP visibility and guard against inaccurate or inconsistent info on local search sites.   |
Search Engine Watch
January 28, 2011
Jeff Beard |
Checking-in on Your Local Listings Across Growing LBS Apps Five guidelines for business to create a strategy for establishing a local identity and building visibility to take full advantage of the viral nature of new social-local-mobile apps. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2008
William Flaiz |
Universal Search Should Be a Plus Variety in the search results gives online marketers multiple opportunities to rank and gain new listing visibility. But how does the user feel? As new listing types begin appearing in results, we often lose sight of whether these listings are really helpful to the user. |
Search Engine Watch
May 29, 2009
Gregg Stewart |
Ranking in Local Listings Why are local listings important? It's all about consumer usage. With so many consumers seeking local listing information, it's vital that advertisers with local entities proactively manage and improve their listings' accuracy |
Entrepreneur
July 2010
Tracy Stapp |
Top of the Heap Here's how to be sure your franchise's website pops into the No. 1 spot in an online search. |
Search Engine Watch
March 2, 2009
Ron Jones |
Local Search 101, Part 1 Are you looking to venture beyond the printed yellow pages? You should be. As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are turning to local search. |
Search Engine Watch
January 23, 2011
Gregg Stewart |
SMB Must-Haves in 2011 Make sure you stay on top of Google Places, Facebook and Twitter, and monitoring and tracking this year. |
Search Engine Watch
March 9, 2011
Frank Watson |
Cooper Tire Hijacked 2300 Listings at Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages More glitches in local search listings hijack other businesses. |
Search Engine Watch
October 28, 2010
Jon Schepke |
Google Place Search: Location Information Just Became More Critical Google's new Place Search makes it more important than ever for business to implement a local search, online review, and SEO strategy to achieve prominent visibility in Google's results. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2010
Jon Schepke |
5 Ways to Improve Your Local Search Marketing Strategy Don't lose out on a huge amount of potential business. Use these local search strategies. |
Search Engine Watch
October 24, 2008
William Flaiz |
The Organic and Paid Balancing Act As SERP listings and functionality changes, there are still two types of listings that have weathered the storm and are still attainable for marketers: traditional organic listings and paid search listings. |
Search Engine Watch
April 7, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Don't Overlook Local Search Opportunities With local search, there are many free or low-cost opportunities for local advertisers to get found. How many businesses, both small and large, are taking advantage of local SEO? |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Saturating Your Message in Search Marketing Tips to ensure your business controls as many spaces as possible on a search results page. |
Search Engine Watch
October 10, 2008
Chris Boggs |
Is Your SEM Truly Looking at Search Holistically? To achieve SERP nirvana, your search engine optimization and paid search efforts must have the same goal. Ask these five important questions. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2011
Josh McCoy |
SEO Factors for 2011 As we begin the New Year, many SEOs have their eyes set on search engine ranking factors. Here are a few areas you should pay attention to - because the engines are already sending subliminal messages. |
Search Engine Watch
October 8, 2010
Jeff Beard |
Local Search: Putting Power in the Hands of the Consumer As local search continues to eat into traditional marketing channels, businesses must create accurate and detailed local business identities on local search platforms, social networks and mobile apps. |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo Local listings. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2009
Carrie Hill |
My "Must Have" List of Directories Submitting yourself to directories that are directly related to your business is an important part of directory and linkbuilding research. |
Search Engine Watch
February 15, 2011
Alex Cohen |
PPC vs. SEO: Paid Search as Your Organic Competitor The balance between paid and organic results in the SERPs in shifting. Paid listings may increasingly get more clicks at the expense of organic listings. |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Amanda Kooser |
Local Time Discover the benefits of local online advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Expands Paid Placement Listings Yahoo is now carrying paid placement listings on its search results pages, rather than just within its category pages, through a deal cut with Overture (the former GoTo) last month... |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Bolsters Local Search Business Listings Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new content inclusion program. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2010
Frank Watson |
Top 10 Local Search Insights for the Moment The local search marketing game is changing fast, driven by Google Places, mobile, maps, Twitter, Yelp, Foursquare and more. Here's a look at 10 recent developments in local you need to be aware of. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch
October 23, 2003
Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
March 8, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A New F-Word for Google Search Results A new study has added tangible evidence to the widely held view that top-ranking search results get the most attention from users, and that lower-ranking results are all but invisible to most people. |
Search Engine Watch
March 9, 2009
Ron Jones |
Local Search 101, Part 2 If you want to be found in local search, keep an eye on the growing number of local search directories. You should also consider using social media to both get attention for your business, and to follow other local search practitioners for advice. |
CRM
May 3, 2012 |
Yahoo! Small Business Launches Marketing Dashboard The free offering promises to change the way small businesses manage their online marketing and reputation. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
June 21, 2010
Josh McCoy |
What Google Thinks of Your Site Paying attention to your site's Sitelinks, hierarchical listings, and internal link listings in Google SERPs are great ways to see how Google understands your site. |
Entrepreneur
December 2008
John Jantsch |
Look Good Online The only way to control what people say about your company is to be part of the conversation. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Why You Should Combine Your PPC & SEO Strategies Here's how advertisers can develop a search strategy that effectively coordinates paid and organic listings. |
Search Engine Watch
November 25, 2003
Catherine Seda |
Dayparts & Other Search Engine Paid Listings Evolutions When it comes to gaining the most bang for the buck from paid search engine listings, micro-managing is a good thing, says our panel of experts. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
Go Local Need to drive more business to your door? Use our practical guide to rev up your local web strategy. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
The Graphical Search Divide Graphics in sponsored search listings. Want them? Need them? Marketers are divided. |
CRM
July 1, 2011
Leonard Klie |
AMEX Releases Social Media Tool for SMBs YourBuzz helps businesses listen to and connect with customers across social channels. |
Search Engine Watch
April 26, 2010
Josh McCoy |
Local Search Convertibility Presence, promotion, and convertibility are the three key elements to a successful local search campaign. Learn how to take your local online efforts to the next level. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
October 23, 2009
Chris Boggs |
It's Not Too Late for 2009 Holiday-Focused SEO Search engine optimization tips for marketers looking to push the needle further during the upcoming online holiday season. |
Search Engine Watch
October 25, 2010
John Greer |
Organic Search Listings That Drive Clicks People scan search results quickly. Here's how to make your listing stand out and make searchers want to click on your site. |
Search Engine Watch
August 1, 2008
William Flaiz |
Universal Thoughts on Local Search Local search is showing up in your Web browser, at your desk, on your phone, and on your GPS devices -- and these are just the easy examples. The number of devices and locations for local search will continue to grow as more things become connected to the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch
September 19, 2007
Jim Parent |
8 Ways to Improve Your Local Search Results If you have not taken steps to ensure your business' online presence in local search results is complete and accurate, you're missing a big opportunity. |
CRM
April 23, 2015 |
Where2GetIt Expands Brandify's Local-Social Capabilities New location-based marketing platform promises to elevate brands' social engagement. |
Search Engine Watch
October 28, 2010
Jon Schepke |
What Local-Mobile-Social Convergence Means to Your Business Marketers need to optimize, distribute, and track content across all platforms. Here are some strategies and tools for success as local, mobile, and social continue to converge. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2011
Dave Davies |
Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 1 The basics of a Google Places: how to properly set up a listing and some of the principles behind why this is important. |
Search Engine Watch
September 26, 2008
William Flaiz |
The Universal Mastery of Video Content Video listings cause us to reexamine the way we've traditionally viewed search engines, and this is simply part of the natural progression. After all, it wasn't too long ago when universal search rocked the world of SEO or social media changed how we use the Web. |
Search Engine Watch
September 13, 2010
Kaila Strong |
Search and Social: Are You Missing Out? Examining social media's impact on search, and how best to integrate a bit of social into your search engine marketing (or search into your social media marketing). |
InternetNews
December 18, 2003
Zachary Rodgers |
Ah-ha.com Adopts New Moniker The paid search listings provider changed its name to Enhance Interactive. The name change was motivated foremost by a gradual change in ah-ha.com's business model. |
Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2004
Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing. |
Search Engine Watch
March 2, 2010
Herndon Hasty |
Your Locations are Your Biggest Digital Assets A physical address has huge online implications. While you're covering your assets, make sure to build up your presence for local-based searches. |
