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Video Deep Dive: Upcoming Mobile Ranking Change

This is the 10th installment this year of our Deep Dive Into Local series. For the week ending Friday, March 18th, Mary Bowling and Mike Blumenthal shared their thoughts about the previous week in local. The complete video, including links and commentary on critical happenings of the previous week is…

Mike BlumenthalApril 1, 2016

Local Search

VIDEO: LocalU Mobile & Local Hangout

Last Friday morning was our monthly LocalU Public Hangout. We had a great discussion about best practices for mobile and local. We covered a lot of ground in this expert panel discussion with our guests Cindy Crum, Aaron Weiche, Jeff Sauer, and Annie Cushing. If you're interested in mobile best…

Carrie HillJune 26, 2015

Analytics Mobile

Mobile Opportunities, Observations, & Insights Post-Mobilegeddon

With all this talk about Mobilegeddon, I decided to take a look at mobile traffic trends over the past three years. Specifically, I looked at Google organic searches via mobile devices. I compared those searches to Google organic searches via desktop, tablet, and mobile organic searches from other search engines,…

Carrie HillApril 27, 2015

Local Search Mobile

A Guide to Google Mobile Local Pack Results

Last week, Google pushed its new, blue mobile local pack (previously seen on Android and Google Now) to the iPhone. As the world and Google goes mobile (and local), it makes sense to detail and name the various local pack results that we are now seeing in the mobile environment.…

Mike BlumenthalMarch 30, 2015

Local Search Mobile

86% of Smartphone Owners Use Device for Local Search

You've probably suspected that local search is increasingly going mobile, and this stat from the recently released 2013 Local Search Study is more evidence. In just one year, local search on smartphones (as self-reported by smartphone owners) jumped from 61 percent to 86 percent -- that's a 41 percent increase…

Carrie HillMarch 29, 2013