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In a move reminiscent of last year’s attempt to buy Yelp, Google has offered to buy Groupon for $5.3 billion Why is Google interested?

Google Places has become a new way to search and new way to optimize for local search seo. Once users have entered their search query. The first page of results will show a list of options for refining the search on the left-hand side of the page. The list may include images, videos, or books. Now, Places is one of the options. This should help speed and refine some searches.

Are you the owner of a business that relies on local customers to earn your money every month? Then you need to understand important information that will allow you to use local search engine optimization effectively so you can get the …

Business owner listings on Yelp can propel your business forward when it comes to search engine optimization in 2010. If you’re not already familiar with Yelp, it’s one of the top review websites out there. If consumers want to learn.

For our seventh installment of the Local Search Talk Series we are going to be getting to know Eearlperl. This man brings a very unique perspective to local.

If most of your business comes from local shoppers and other local businesses, or if you are trying to increase your local market share, there’s a few things you can easily do that will better your chances of being found on local searches. For instance, when someone Googles “Tucson widgets”, there are a variety of [...]

Facebook may not have made any big announcements about local business marketing at last week’s f8 conference, but the company is certainly stepping up its efforts in that area. Today, we discovered that Facebook is sending out window decals with text-to-Like SMS instructions to select local businesses. Twitter user B.J. Drums, who works with the [...]

by Betty Beard The Arizona Republic recession University of Arizona economist Marshall Vest says the recession officially ended in Arizona several months ago, although it will be months before a recovery is evident and years to repair all the damage that’s been done. Vest contends the national recession ended in May or June and the [...]

By Doug Gross, CNN (CNN) — Every 140-character snippet of info you’ve ever shared publicly on Twitter will soon have a home next to the Declaration of Independence. Twitter and the Library of Congress announced Wednesday that every public tweet posted since Twitter started in 2006 will be archived digitally by the federal library. The [...]