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Comment on Google+ for Business Has Arrived by Elation Websites

Elation Websites — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:19:44 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Adam. Just created my new Google+ page. Cheers.

Comment on 2 Startling Images All Local Business Owners Must See! by Elation Websites

Elation Websites — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:15:02 +0000

Great observation, Adam. I definitely think this was the desired effect from Google. Google and everyone else are moving towards location based results. To me, it’s pretty evident in the design. The prominent red dots and star ratings are all designed to draw attention.

Comment on Google AdWords Definition by Google+ for Business Has Arrived | Main Street Marketing Community

Google+ for Business Has Arrived | Main Street Marketing Community — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:56:27 +0000

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Comment on 2 Startling Images All Local Business Owners Must See! by Adam Kreitman

Adam Kreitman — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:58:49 +0000

Doug – that is an excellent question. And one the study doesn’t answer. I know a lot of people are clicking on the local search listings because I’ve seen the impact high rankings have had for a number of local businesses. But as far as quantifying “a lot” in terms of percentages of eyeballs or even percentages of people clicking on local search listings vs. organic results vs. paid ads, I haven’t seen any data on that recently. I’ll dig around and let you know if I find anything.

And sorry for the delayed response, your comment was marked as spam – guess WordPress know all about you!

Comment on 2 Startling Images All Local Business Owners Must See! by STL Beds

STL Beds — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:02:46 +0000

Adam you mentioned how Google AdWords ad and other results push the local listings even further down the screen, and how the people’s eyes gravitate toward the “3-Pack” of local results, but does that translate or correlate into clicks. For me personally you are right my eyes do drift there, however because there is no description, I rarely click on them. I do however pay attention to the reviews.
Doug Bellevile

Comment on 7-Pack Definition by 2 Startling Images All Local Business Owners Must See! | Main Street Marketing Community

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:29:13 +0000

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Comment on Rent Our Brains by Do Local Business Reviews Matter? | Main Street Marketing Community

Do Local Business Reviews Matter? | Main Street Marketing Community — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:46:40 +0000

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Comment on Where Do People Turn for Info About Their Local Community (Surprising Results?) by Adam Kreitman

Adam Kreitman — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:15:14 +0000

@Brian – You’re right that is an interesting category though the survey did not include those sites separately. For this study they defined internet as “web only sources such as search engines, specialty-topic websites and social networking sites.” Websites of local newspapers and TV stations were included in the numbers for newspaper and TV, not the internet.

In some of the data, they do mention locally focused sites like patch.com but lumps them in with bigger sites like Craigslist and Weather.com.

Comment on Where Do People Turn for Info About Their Local Community (Surprising Results?) by Brian Chorley

Brian Chorley — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:28:34 +0000

Was there any data on your local online news media? I know it’s a new category, but in many suburbs and small towns, pure play local online news sites have been grabbing a huge audience. It’s an interesting new category for many local advertisers.

Comment on The Most Accurate Local Keyword Tool on the Planet by laser

laser — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:24:54 +0000

Thanks for the post. i think exact match searches give more valuable and relevant result than broad match or phrase match. broad match will provide a huge list of keywords on same niche among them mostly are irrelevant. We should choose our keywords according to our need not according to traffic. for example let us suppose we are providing SEO services, then the keyword “SEO” has a huge amount of traffic but it may be useless when we are providing seo services in a local area. so we should always keep in mind these things when we are choosing keywords.