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SMX West: Local Search Blends At Home

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Local search figures prominently in predictions for the future success of online ads. Businesses should start now at gaining good placement for local searches.

SMX West: Local Search Blends At Home
Gab Goldenberg(Coverage of the SMX West Conference continues at Murdok Videos. Keep an eye on Murdok for more notes and videos from the event this week.)

Time spent on local search advertising today puts a business in better position to benefit tomorrow. Look no farther than 2. Submitted MontrealSEO.ca to Google’s Local Business Center
3. Built Links Internally and Externally for MontrealSEO.ca
4. Passed On Reviews Into Google Maps
Chris Silver Smith noted. Seeing a certain result in a given blended search depends on the search engine and ranking factors.

He observed how ratings on Yahoo Local, and links at the Yahoo-owned Delicious bookmarking site to a business, play a role in where the listing will rank in blended search. Microsoft's Live Search blended results seem to be impacted by the address of a business.

A sample of a query for [Boston seafood restaurants] ordered results mostly by the numeric address in Live Search.

At Google, the One Box section for universal results contains a lot more listings. This gives businesses more of an opportunity to appear alongside a Google Map and the attention it draws in a search.

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