Bing Challenges Google Places – Bing Business Portal
Today Bing launched its version of Google Places. It is called Bing Business Portal (BBP) and is still in its Beta version stage. However, it could be a tough challenge for Google as Google Places have...
View ArticleBest of 2011 in Local SEO and Local SEM
If you read this blog regularly, you should know it’s all about local SEO and local SEM. If you don’t, well, now you know. During the year we went through literally hundreds, or even thousands, of...
View ArticleChanges in Local Search – Implications on Local SEO
Who would’ve guessed that while I was at SMX West (you can check out my presentation on solving problems with Google Places here), the search engines were not sleeping. They launched a few changes to...
View ArticleGoogle with the Most Accurate Business Database in the UK
Last week I read a post on Search Engine Land that was discussing a study by Implied Intelligence. The study was related to business data accuracy, and was comparing a number of the biggest players in...
View ArticleBest Local SEO and Local-Search-Related Articles of 2012
One year ago I published a list of the best local SEO and local SEM articles of 2011. Ever since, one of my dreams has been to turn this into a regular practice. And here we are – in the beginning of...
View ArticleWhat Actually Happens When One Cancels Yext
A few weeks ago I wrote about the difference between manual citation building and an automated service, such as Yext. The article sparked a discussion specifically around one of the main comparison...
View ArticleBing Places FINALLY Available Outside the US
Bing’s equivalent (and rival) of Google Places (+Local) – Bing Places, has finally been rolled out for countries other than the United States, a few years after its initial launch (as Bing Local...
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