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Local Search – Reliable Organic Answers or Not.

Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by LocalSearchPilot.

When speaking at seminars about SEO and organic rankings, I’m constantly reminding my audiences to never forget “Google picks”. So does Yahoo! & Bing.
It never fails for 90% of the audience to question why they are never put  on page 1. They simply can not grasp the concept that while “they” might think they are [...]

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Google Sponsored Results & Local Listings

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by LocalSearchPilot.

Yesterday I mentioned how Google Paid results were showing random blue markers with address and phone #s .
Today is the first day in which I noticed multiple blue markers and this time each marker was numbered.
The query for “st louis fence”  had these results (click for larger image)
[update at 4:40pm] I did the same query [...]

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Are Local Maps Reliable?

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by LocalSearchPilot.

I am still waiting for the Local Map to be 100% relevant (in my opinion). Let me give you an example of a query I did today. A search for “kitchen cabinet stores st louis” on Yahoo gave me this:

I am 100% that CK Concrete does not offer kitchen cabinets.
On Google, I got this:

I know Kohls offers [...]

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