I’m usually not much into the webcast/webinar scene, but as soon as I hit the ‘publish” button on this post, I’ll be grabbing a spot in a local search webinar that’s comi...

On Wednesday, I joined what I expect was a pretty big online crowd for a Search Marketing Now webcast, Local Business Listings: Straight Talk With the Data Providers. It covered an important area of l...

Another collision of local search and social conversation: It’s called Yahoo Neighbors, and I think it has the potential to be really big and really important in the local/small business space. ...

Due to my recent overload of travel, I’m not at the SMX East conference this week in New York City. Yes, I’m skipping the conference put on by the people who pay me to write for Search Eng...

It looks like Google is making more small changes to how its displays local search results — but these are small changes that might have a big impact on both local businesses and the users searc...