Local Search

Veteran search engine marketing expert Danny Sullivan will host a special edition of “Searchcast” to give his exclusive comments on the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal. The programs airs at 7pm Eastern Time/ 4pm Pacific today.

Yahoo has announced a nice change to the way it shows local search results for businesses.

Oh, the irony. One day after it was announced that Microsoft’s Bing will be replacing Yahoo’s own search engine on Yahoo.com, Yahoo! came out with a new local search functionality that ought to be the envy of every search engine. Searching for local businesses on Yahoo now brings up a nice interface containing reviews, an overview, photos and driving directions inside a drop down box you can …

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In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft–with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo’s Southern California search engine marketing operations. Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft’s Bing search …

Panels and presentations throughout Search Engine Strategies San Jose focus on topics specially designed for SEO industry experts (PRWeb Jul 29, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2691504.htm

Panels and presentations throughout Search Engine Strategies San Jose focus on topics specially designed for SEO industry experts

As part of an aggressive nationwide expansion, local consumer search site Cheap Local Deals offers local retailers free lifetime local online advertising for a limited time.

Now in its second year, SMX Sao Paulo features a blend of Brazilian search engine marketing experts and prominent international speakers. See the complete agenda here .

Webmasters and site owners need to understand that having a website on the Internet doesn’t mean that you will get a good traffic on your first month. It is quite possible that you will not get any visitors at all after a few months of publishing your page.