Facebook Receives Investment from Digital Sky Technologies
webmasterworld.com 6/1/2009 — Passive Investment Includes Stake in Preferred Stock, Common Stock and Support for Facebook’s Continued Global Growth PALO ALTO, Calif. — May 26, 2009 — Facebook today announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading internet ...

Google Targets Spammers With New Local Business Listing Guidelines
searchengineland.com 11/4/2009 — Google has tweaked its guidelines for local businesses that use the Google Maps Local Business Center. The new guidelines are listed on Google’s Business Listing Quality Guidelines page. On Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz shows both the ...

Google Local Listing Ads
google.com 10/6/2009 — Local Listing Ads: Local advertising on Google made easy

New Google Maps Business Listing Guidelines – What’s Changed
blumenthals.com 11/3/2009 — New Google Maps Business Listing Guidelines – What’s Changed

Google Local Listing Ads and The Death of IYP Advertising
devbasu.com 10/11/2009 — What are Local Listing Ads? For quite some time, local seo services have revolved around getting clients to the top of the 10 pack results by following best practices and optimizing for local search ranking factors . Organic search had its paid advertising counter part in Google ...

Google Maps Makes Much Needed Update to Quality Guidelines
seroundtable.com 6/1/2009 — Google Maps updated the business listing quality guidelines over the weekend. The new guidelines are welcomed by those who have noticed an influx of spam or borderline spam submissions to the Google Local Business Center over the past couple ...

Detailed Look At Google's New Local Business Center Analytics
seroundtable.com 6/4/2009 — The other day, Google announced improvements with analytics for the Google Local Business Center. I thought I take you through detailed screen shots of how my business listing appears in the LBC. (1) Analytic Graphs plotting both "impressions" (views) ...

Google Local Search, Categories, and the What and Where of Local Map Listings
seobythesea.com 4/24/2009 — A few of the workings behind the scenes at Google Local Search have been recently exposed through a patent granted to Google today, and a pending patent application for the search giant that was published in January. They might make you think a ...

Google Local Research Data Released For Free
distilled.co.uk 12/1/2009 — Being a good SEO involves research. You need to be constantly pushing the envelope on the data that you gather, the insights that you gain and what recommendations you provide in terms of what works and what doesn’t. Google Local is a particular area that I’ve been investigating ...

Google Local citation & review data study
blogstorm.co.uk 12/8/2009 — With Google Local results taking up more and more space in the search results local search is becoming (at least for Branded3) one of the key things we focus on for clients with multiple locations. The Google Local algorithm isn’t the same ...

Bing Maps Gets an Upgrade — Top News - WebProNews 11/10/2009
Microsoft announced that it has made some changes to Bing Maps . Changes include the color of the navigation bar, draggble routes, zoom bar changes, command parsing, embedding, dynamic computing, new navigation, speed, and Bing Maps will no longer ...

Google Latitude Introduces Location History, Smart Alerts — Top News - WebProNews 11/11/2009
A quick, but important, note: the stuff we're about to discuss is only available on an opt-in basis.  So there's no need to stop halfway through this article and drown your phone or tape it to a neighbor's car.  Now, with that out of the ...