Boost traffic with local search

Once the province of a considered desktop search or map query, local search has spread thick and fast across the web, mobile and social networking space, from search engines to our most-loved apps to social review and check-in sites. New challenges abound for any website or business even remotely concerned with its local coverage. A key catalyst to this fundamental shift is, no surprises here, the ascendancy of Google Maps.

“Google’s invested a huge amount in maps,” says Greg Sterling, a contributing editor of online search magazine SearchEngineLand.com. “Part of that investment is about getting images of places but also obtaining data so Google can then use it as part of maps, navigation and local business information – it has a wide ranging set of applications and services drawing upon this information. I’d say that Maps is the most successful product for Google after search.”

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