Yelp’s Reputation Warnings are part of the site’s overall efforts to stop businesses from manipulating their online reputations and being...

Google’s Street View has been somewhat challenged in the transition to a mobile-centric world. It’s available through the Google Maps and...

Mobile advertising platform Moasis believes that location is the key to delivering more personalized and relevant advertising — not...

Ask digital agencies and marketers about “co-op advertising“, and many of them have only a vague idea of what that is. At the most basic...

According to Google, consumers overwhelmingly turn to their mobile devices (94% of the time) when the information they seek is local....

A new report from Marchex, based on an analysis of millions of calls and using ad-spending data from Google and call growth projections...

According to the Jerusalem Post and Reuters, Google’s Waze is testing a carpool service in Israel. Named RideWith, it will match riders...

YP, which provides both local business listings online and in print, is spinning off its print business into a new company called “Print...

Search for some slurs against Blacks, and Google Maps is returning The White House and Howard University right now. Another example of...

Amazon recently launched Amazon Home Services, a new marketplace for local businesses to sell professional services to customers. Using...

Where’s Edward Snowden these days? According to Google Maps, not in Russia but instead residing in the White House, within “Edwards Snow...

At the LSA-SMX West Local Search Advantage Workshop this week, Yelp’s Luther Lowe offered a number of “white hat tips” for marketers on...

Roughly 15 years since I started writing about digital marketing, I’m still amazed that large numbers of marketers still don’t fully...

For well over a decade the internet has influenced billions and billions of dollars of local or offline spending. But that was largely...

Yelp just announced Q4 2014 and full year results. Revenue came in at just under $110 million for the quarter, which represented 56...

A mystery minivan linked to Apple (though not conclusively) has been seen driving around the streets of Contra Costa County in the San...

Yelp reported on its blog that the US Federal Trade Commission has concluded a “deep inquiry into [Yelp’s] business practices” and...

The New York Times reports TripAdvisor, the large travel reviews site, has been fined by Italian authorities for not preventing fake...

We have entered the era of “location analytics,” the ability to use mobile devices to measure the impact of digital marketing on store...

As a variation of the old saying, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” the way to a small business’ (SMB’s) marketing...