Local Search Tips, Tricks & Secrets
February 5th, 2007 by Michael Gray in Local SearchIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
This week I’m doing a series of posts about local search. I’ve got over 20 guest interviews scheduled over the next 5 days. I’ve also got some nice local search resources and a few surprises as well. Be sure to check out the schedule and let know what you think.
Aaron Wall - Local Search Interview
Dean Bloomfield - Local Search Interview
Bill Slawski - Local Search Interview
Scott Smith - Local Search Interview
George Kepnick - Local Search Interview
Rich Skrenta - Local Search Interview
RC Jordan - Local Search Interview
Matt McGee - Local Search Interview
Rae Hoffman - Local Search Interview
Justilien Gaspard - Local Search Interview
Merrick Lozano - Local Search interview
Carolyn Shelby - Local Search Interview
Quadszilla (SEO Black Hat) - Local Search Interview
Greg Hartnett - Local Search Interview
Brad Geddes - Local Search Interview 2/8/2007
Mike Belasco - Local Search Interview 2/8/2007
Ryan May - Local Search Interview
Lyndon Antcliff - Local Search Interview
Jeremy Schoemaker - Local Search Interview
John Andrews - Local Search Interview
Rebecca Kelley - Local Search Interview
Lee Odden - Local Search Interview
Tags: local+search, seo
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February 5th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Cool, I am enjoying the ones you are doing so far! Keep up the interesting ideas!
February 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Great idea. I was particularly pleased to see that Local Mobile Search has so quickly come up in the interviews. I think this is the area of greatest opportunity and it will be interesting to see how the contest between Google and the telcos evolves.
February 5th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Barry, in the UK Local Mobile used to work in 2005 then Google removed it in 2006…and pretty much noone noticed.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Looking forward to reading all of these as they become availale!
February 5th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
As a local business directory owner I found these interviews very interesting and informative. My list of “to do’s” on upgrades for the new version of the site is growing quite a bit. Looking forward to the rest!
February 6th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Great series, thank you. I look forward to reading the rest of the interviews.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for the insightful interviews, I have been reading them, I’ll will be waiting for the coming ones.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Letting the Market Decide on Personalized Search Results…
There has been a lot of controversy, as of late, surrounding Google’s personalized search. While many SEOers are rather upset about what this means for the industry, other are accepting that it is an inevitable fact that they must adapt to. While both…
February 8th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Nice work Michael. Quadzilla’s local search spam tale is too funny, cracked me right up. Cheers!
February 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
With a 30k city db, markov chain article generation and cloaking it used to be very easy (until 2005) to rank pretty much for anything local (except for hotels/realtors/lenders which became over competitive by 2003).
I generated millions of dollars worth of leads this way back in the days with little effect. I doubt you can do it effectively on a national level now with zero content sites.
February 10th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
TopRank News, Interviews and Upcoming Speaking Events…
Theres plenty to choose from, and Grey-Wolfs upcoming interviews are worth a lookin….
February 11th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Looking at local search again it’s made me think more about geocentric-seo and how there is still a lot of low hanging fruit to be plucked.
Particularly in non US countries, where unfortunately we are a few years behind.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hey, superb barrage of enlightening interviews on the local stuff. I guess I have my reading cut out for me now too.
If you don’t mind, I have a quick question on your interview methods. Do you do all of these interviews and make initial contact via email or do you use some other avenues too?
Thanks for the informative blog.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Thanks for putting this together, Michael.
This is going to keep me busy reading all of these for a while.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Wow. I was just thinking of blogging about local search, but i can’t compete with what you’ve got going on here. thanks for all the info and look forward to reading more interviews.
April 28th, 2007 at 4:25 am
There is a cool local search engine called Geothingy where users can add and remove urls from the index via a wiki interface.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Thanks for this great info! Local search seems to be ignored by many people in their on-line promotion.