Local Search Studies & Surveys
24
2008
Reading a very recent post at Davidmihm.com about Local Search and Ranking Factors David talks about a new survey and study that was launched about local search and “Participants were asked to rate the importance of 47 criteria with respect to their influence on rankings in the Google and Yahoo Local “Universal” search algorithms”
David says the following about his study:
“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 results and discussion are worth taking a look at with regards to his Local Search Survey!
Below I found a couple articles that I found very informative on the Local Search subject:
For businesses that are truly local in focus, targetting local search ranking factors is a very effective SEO strategy if for no other reason that it enables you to weed out your global competitors and focus more on ranking tops for …
Yahoo Offers Local Search Tips
Anytime a search engine rep. hands out SEO/SEM advice, I think it’s generally worth listening to. I did my best to get some local SEO advice from Yahoo’s Brian Gil when I interviewed him a couple months ago. Be sure to read that if you …
Everyone needs to remember that the “SMX Local & Mobile 2008” in San Francisco, July 24-25 and my good friend Jordan Kasteler will be speaking so you can’t miss it!
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