Local Search Tips, Tricks & Secrets

By Michael Gray
In Local Search

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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.

Also if you are looking for a good local directory can I recommend Best of the Web Local Search

Tags: local+search, seo

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Joe Whyte February 5, 2007 at 1:21 pm: Cool, I am enjoying the ones you are doing so far! Keep up the interesting ideas!
Barry Welford February 5, 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.
Teddie February 5, 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.
emad February 5, 2007 at 9:39 pm: Looking forward to reading all of these as they become availale!
tacimala February 5, 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!
Gib Olander February 6, 2007 at 2:30 pm: Great series, thank you. I look forward to reading the rest of the interviews.
Seo Practices Guide February 6, 2007 at 3:53 pm: Thanks for the insightful interviews, I have been reading them, I’ll will be waiting for the coming ones.
Ben Wilks February 8, 2007 at 1:53 am: Nice work Michael. Quadzilla’s local search spam tale is too funny, cracked me right up. Cheers!
Gopi February 9, 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.
Lyndoman February 11, 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.
Chris Dohman February 14, 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.
yellowbot March 4, 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.
kimber March 13, 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.
Jason April 28, 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.
Pete June 8, 2007 at 4:56 am: Thanks for this great info! Local search seems to be ignored by many people in their on-line promotion.