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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The Return of the Product Catalog

By Michael on Friday, August 26th, 2011 | Industry News, Mobile

It’s crazy to ponder on the fact that the product catalog has been around literally for over 100 years. In 1894, Sears, Roebuck and Co published its first product catalog. This also marked the first time consumers could shop from the comfort of their own homes as the catalogs were shipped across the country. Big

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What Google Has Been Up To…

By Kevin on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | Industry News, Local Search, Map Listings, Mobile, Uncategorized

As we all know, Google has been making some pretty big changes in their Places layout over the last few weeks. However, that’s not all they have been up to. I would like to point out some other big changes Google has been rolling out over the past couple of weeks. Google Maps Weather The

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Google Buys Motorola Mobility: Now What?

By Kris on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | Map Listings, Mobile, PPC

In light of Google buying Motorola, Angelina and I decided to write this together on how this could impact advertisers in local organic and local PPC. Will this change your optimization tactics at all?  Here’s what we thought: Kris This latest business move by Google furthers the far-reaching impact of the smartphone boom with regards

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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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