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The Mobile Revolution Continues: Restaurant Search -
This just in over at Search Engine Land: “A whopping 62 percent of total searches for popular national chain restaurants [in the US] on Valentine’s Day occurred on high end mobile devices or tablets.”...
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Restaurant Websites Have Issues!
Study: 95% of Independent Restaurants don’t have mobile sites, and as the graphic below illustrates, those that do usually have “issues”… (courtesy of TheOatmeal.com) Not having a mobile site may...
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Do the math: Google Place Pages + Google+ Pages = Google+ Local Pages.
The inevitable merging of Google’s Place pages and Google+ pages has taken place. The result? Google+ Local Pages. Search Engine Land calls this “the center of gravity for local search“. 20% of...
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Mobile Searches for Restaurants, Auto & Travel Businesses Drive Purchases
Last week this post from MarketingLand discussed the latest research in mobile-search: 50 Percent Of Mobile Queries In Travel, Restaurant and Auto categories result in a purchase. This presents a...
View ArticleFree Internet Marketing Seminars for Local Business Owners
Celebrating over 100 hibu local Internet marketing seminars held to-date!- Next Up on the schedule: Seattle, WA. Columbia, MO. Lubbock & Austin, TX. Long Island, NY Springfield, MA. Maumee, OH...
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Real-life tips for building your customer database –
Case Study: Pizza Chain Finds New Ways to Build Email Database [Posted on StreetFight] As the director of marketing at Stone Hearth Pizza, a restaurant chain with multiple locations in the Boston area,...
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10 Great SEO Articles Every Local Business Owner Should Read…
These local SEO blog posts contain valuable information on local SEO and how small and local businesses can learn, apply, and eventually reap the rewards of local search marketing, posted this...
View ArticleGoogle: “fake reviews will be taken down”
Google will remove reviews for local businesses if their spam detection algorithms detect “fake glowing testimonies”. Additionally, even businesses who legitimately post reviews they’ve collected from...
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Search Engines beat out “word of mouth” for Bed & Breakfasts
If your like most people, you’ll use a Search Engine to locate a Bed & Breakfast before a “work of mouth” or social media recommendation. At least that’s the findings from Mike Blumenthal’s latest...
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Take A Ride on the Google Carousel!
This week, Google rolled out a significant new search feature across the U.S. – the local “carousel” A review over at Yahoo! emphasized why this development is so important: “Local search (and...
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Local Search Ranking Factors – Volume 5. A “Must Read”!
It’s that time of the year local-search marketers! David Mihm’s annual Local Search Ranking factors is out (vol. 5). This is one of the most important and anticipated pieces of research released...
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Local Online Reviews: Heating Up, In More Ways Than One…
Online reviews are gaining more attention than ever; due in-part to their influence in local search results and the proliferation of “fake” reviews. Here’s what every local business owner needs to...
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Local Search Source has moved…
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