Thought I would take a bit of time out of my normal postings to provide an article about web hosting for small business websites. For a website to function and work for the small business it has to be properly designed, optimized, and promoted but it also needs to UP! …

One of the best reads this year is Loci 2010, over at Mike  Blumenthals blog, Understanding Google Maps & Local Search – Developing Knowledge about Local Search.  Mike is one of biggies in local search and provides a lot of great info on his site. Loci 2010 is  a year …

Some more articles for your review. Google’s Rich Snippets For Local FAQ Update Google’s Mobile Moves Tighten Its Grip On Local Checking-in on Your Local Listings Across Growing LBS Apps Nuts & Bolts – Case Study : High Noon for Geo-Targeting PPC Negative Reviews in Local Search: A Survival Guide …

Well, “In Case You Missed It” is back! Part of me is glad Jan is over, it has been a crazy month and I am behind what I wanted to do. Happy Reading and good luck with your local search in 2011! Local Search: Your Address is the New Link …

Hey everyone, just a couple of updates I have done to the site. -I have added a new page to include my Quora feed on local search topics that I am following. Quora is a Q&A site where you can find out what other think or are thinking about any …

As I reported in an earlier post, Google have rolled out tags and Boost, enabling small businesses to secure a presence in local search provided they pay monthly advertising fees. Yet, rightly or wrongly, everyone agrees that organic search results are still the best place to appear. Besides, ranking well …

Target Local Customers with TXTio.com Mobile Text Marketing My good friend Eugene Belenky, has let me know that he is launching a new service to help small business market to local customers. It is called TXTio.com.  Another good friend, Andrew Shotland commented on TXTio a little while back and I …

We have already covered the predictions in many of the other areas of online marketing, what about local search?  Here are the articles I think are worth your time. Local Discovery’ Rising in 2011 – “But now that Google has come to dominate “local search” we can expect to see …

As we begin a new year, predictions on every and any subject are very common. Over the last few weeks, there have been a lot of predictions posted on various online marketing areas.  I have been keeping a list of the ones that I thought relevant.  Since there are so …

As we begin 2011, there are many predictions being bantered about. (Do not worry I will be writing about all of the predictions in the next few days). 🙂 But for the small business owner, trying to get online, what do they need to do?  I have come across a …