Have you “checked-in” on Foursquare?

By Neil on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 | Location-based Services, Mobile, Social Media

Lately, here at Local Search Traffic, we’ve been getting a lot of requests for location-based services. So, today I thought I’d take look at Foursquare, a site we’re big fans of here. First, as part of our offerings, we submit all of our client’s locations to Foursquare to make sure their locations are listed correctly,

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App Bridges Online Shopping and Local Retail

By Neil on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 | Local Search, Location-based Services, Mobile, Social Media

I recently came across the app Milo thanks to PSFK which featured the app in their latest Future of Retail report. I was immediately intrigued because it is a local shopping engine as opposed to the thousands of online shopping apps. Playing with it a bit, it has the feel of online shopping but it directs you

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What Yelp’s 20 Million Reviews Means

By Neil on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 | Local Search, Location-based Services, Mobile, Social Media

Last week Yelp passed the 20 million reviews milestone. However, that number to me isn’t nearly as impressive as their growth. Five years ago Yelp had 1 million unique visitors per month. Three years ago they reached 10 million unique visitors per month. Today they have 53 million unique visitors per month. What is also

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