LocalBizBits Local Search Marketing Information and Resources
Today we finish up our talk with Kara Tupy Marketing Director of LocalElements. You can read the first post here. If you are curious about using coupons, this post has a lot of good info. Q. Do you think coupon sites should be national, regional or location specific? A. There’s …
Read More »Local Search Ain't Perfect, So What
The other day Erick Schonfeld posted The Problem with Local Search and Greg Sterling posted his comments What’s The Problem with Local Search? in his blog. Now Greg has commented before about “the problems”, as he mentions in his post. Anyone who works within the local search marketing field has …
Read More »Local Coupons Online (Part 1)
Everyone loves to save money, on-line or off-line. Businesses providing coupons on-line is not new and is one of the aspects of local search. Providing coupons are an easy way to help spread your name or brand around. It can provide another way for folks to find your website or …
Read More »Jim Boykin's Favorite Posts (or I hope I win!)
One of the blogs I frequently read is Jim Boykin’s Blog. This week he is giving folks a chance to win some free ads by linking to his post of Favorite Posts. There we go, I am entered! Jim said we should say something nice. What can I say? I …
Read More »Loki Local Search Toolbar
Hope everyone in the US had a nice Memorial Day weekend. One of nice things about these long weekends, It gives me a chance to catch up on things. This weekend, I tried out two products, Loki toolbar and LocalGuides.com. I really liked both of them. Today I will give …
Read More »Local Search Tools
A couple of year ago is when the toolbar mania began. It seemed like everyone was creating their own custom toolbar. Yes I must admit it, I did too. In general the toolbar is not a bad idea. They can be very helpful. The question is though, how many toolbars …
Read More »More reasons to do local search
The reasons I list today are sort of secondary reason to do local search marketing. Also all of these are items I plan to cover in more detail in future postings. —Google411. Ever hear of it? I recently tried it and it is pretty cool. “Google Voice Local Search is …
Read More »Yet another reason to do local search
Last week Google announced its new Universal Search, “With universal search, we’re attempting to break down the walls that traditionally separated our various search properties and integrate the vast amounts of information available into one simple set of search results” What this means is that news, video, images, local, and …
Read More »Social Sites
Just a quick post today, sort of as follow up of the post from the other day about online networking. There are two good articles, I want to refer you to: 1. The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking – The Top 24 Sites by Chris Winfield. The title says it …
Read More »Be careful of what you say or do
The new web with its social media is great but it also means you need to be careful of what you do. I found this article on MSNBC.com today about MySpace and an “innocent” photo put online. The article I really like is by Todd Mintz, Online Reputation Management Begins …
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