Just caught Greg’s piece on Facebook’s new mobile local search feature: Facebook Gets Into Local Search with Facebook Nearby for iOS & Android. While I don’t expect Facebook Nearby to stay ad-free forever, with the entry of Facebook Nearby and Apple Maps, both ad-free, I’d say 2012 has been the most interesting year in the Local [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Apple Maps'
Local Search Steel-Cage Match: Google+ Local v. Apple Maps v. Facebook Nearby v. Everyone Else
December 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Tags: Apple Maps · Facebook Places · Google Place Pages
What’s Up With The Apple Maps Blog?
October 17th, 2012 · No Comments
Regular readers may have noticed my new Apple Maps blog getting a lot of my blogging attention these days at the expense of this fine collection of pixels. I thought it might be of interest to one or two of you to explain what’s going on. A couple of months ago I realized that I [...]
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My Apple Maps Apology…
October 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments
At Local SEO Guide, we strive to write world-class blog posts that deliver the best experience possible to our readers. With the launch of our new Apple Maps Marketing blog this week, we fell short on this commitment as we are too busy writing posts for that blog to contribute more content on this one. [...]
Tags: Apple Maps
New Blog on Apple Maps Marketing
October 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments
Apple Maps suck. Might as well start a new blog about them: Apple Maps Marketing.com
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iPhone5 Local Search Features
September 12th, 2012 · 5 Comments
I was surprised at how little time Apple Maps got in the iPhone5 launch event, but then again they had a lot to cover. Below are the features they presented. Thanks to The Verge’s live coverage! (Great artists steal right?): Apple Has Built a Local Search Engine “We’ve built a search engine in to find [...]
Tags: Apple Maps · iPhone Local
And Did We Mention Apple Maps Are Going To Suck?
September 9th, 2012 · 7 Comments
No big surprise that The Atlantic’s piece on Google Maps – an “exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world’s best accurate maps” is coming out the week before the new iOS 6 with Apple Maps are introduced. It has been great theater watching all of the ways Google has been pushing the [...]
Tags: Apple Maps · Google Maps
Apple Maps Ranking Factors
June 11th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Looks like you may need to start brushing up on your 3D Local SEO skills: source: TheVerge Seriously, between Apple Passbook and the upcoming Apple Maps, Apple/iOS stands to become a major force in local search (as if it weren’t already). Get ready for an onslaught of bullshit Apple Maps Ranking Factors posts like this [...]
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