Forum: Geo-Targeting

I saw this referenced at SERoundtable - which referenced a post by Ian McAnerin at SEWatch. In response to a question he mentioned the following...

I've seen a lot written over the last 2 months about LOCAL, specifically use of G, Y, or MSN local. Frankly, it surprises me. For the last few...

Bragadocio (Bill Slawski) and I have been looking into listings in Google Local. I had posed the question if he had seen a way to rank higher in...

Google just started showing a map to your local business. To get it, though, you have to submit to G local (now called Google maps). Its pretty...

For local SEO, from a competitive perspective ppc and local dominate the top of the page for many phrases. By example for my business service and...

I've been somewhat lazy...so I haven't been paying as much attention to this as I should, nor have I taken advantage of all the attributes but I saw...

Got a heads up from bragadocio; Bill Slawski. He just reviewed a lot of new SE patents on Local. He published them here in SEW: ...

SEOMOZ published a piece by smallbusinesssem.com which is authored by Matt McGee. Matt specializes in small business help. This looks very...

I looked at the last month's SE traffic to see how this was working. (you can find out about the famous DD strategy elsewhere in this category and...

We are currently running an experiment to test this application. Our business and site cover a 2 state and one city geographic area. The business...

As many of you know, Bill Slawski, Bragadoccio, published a long list of google patents the other day at Cre8asite. Its a magnificent list. I...

Here is a neat tool that allows you to compare Google maps with MSN's maps. Last I looked, though MSN had closer aerials. Check it out. ...

Just saw this today. Caught me by surprise. (this could just as easily show up in the PPC category) I checked the origin of sites by states to...

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I'm a little late on this but MSN just issued its latest enhancements on mapping a week ago...so the issue is fresh. All 3 engines use variations...

MSN's Live Local is a killer ap. In certain parts of the country (probably urban areas or areas with lots of development) it has killer aerials with...