Comments on: Google displaying local results in town searches

By: Platinax Small Business News » Google pushes maps into search

Platinax Small Business News » Google pushes maps into search — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:44:46 +0000

[...] The results had already been spotted by some keen-eyed searchers. [...]

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:55:56 +0000

It’s interesting to see they’ve launched this. I’ve always wondered whether local would take off in the UK the way in which everyone seems to think it will in the States.

Better start brushing up on Local specific optimisation then…

By: Marketing Guy

Marketing Guy — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:52:18 +0000

Haha yeh Kev.

I remember not long ago that Yell.com used to take up multiple listings on Adwords for local searches (they were basically bidding for each advertiser listing they had) – that pushed every other local search PPC ad down to page 2.

Like someone mentioned over on TW – Google are just pushing the spam problem onto Yell, who I would assume are much less able to deal with it.

TBH David I think the spam problem will get worse – Yell will see a lot more business out of it from people wanting in on the short term benefits, but as pointed out, it will be easier to manipulate which will be bad in the long run for users IMO.

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:52:14 +0000

I’m really glad they are doing this. It opens up a lot more possibilities for the SEO, while making it for friendly to people that are searching for local listings.

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:43:21 +0000

Edinburgh online must be pretty happy with that, they now have the top 3 rankings where before they wouldn’t have been listed on the first page at all!