February 2009
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
4h 9m
English
As far back as 2004, local search accounted for up to 25 percent of commercial activity on the Web, according to a Kelsey Group study. No wonder large and small players alike have been striving to build a better local search mousetrap. Of all the large and small search verticals out there, local is the fastest-growing and, probably, most important.
It’s not hard to understand why. A dentist in Des Moines may have a Web presence, but it’s unlikely he’ll be filling cavities in Cleveland. If your drain clogs in Denver, a plumber in Pittsburgh isn’t what you need now. The major search engines know this, in fact. Various geo-location technologies are baked into their algorithms. So when someone with ...
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