LOC@L SEO GUIDE

Since this blog’s readers are mainly from the search marketing & local search industries, I’ve often thought I should add a job board for local search jobs.  I regularly get requests from readers to promote their job openings so maybe one of these days I’ll get around to doing one.
As a little test I’ve posted [...]

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Some of the more interesting data that Mehdi mentioned:

When looking for a lake tahoe house rental, in a four hour session, the searcher repeats some queries as much as 6 times
Mobile search behavior gets users to intent much faster than traditional search
40% of purchases happen two weeks or later after product search query
70% of mobile [...]

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The most interesting info in the Real Time Search panel at SMX is how each of the engines looks at RTS data algorithmically and how it contributes to ranking in Web search results.  Some real-time blogging:
From BING:
Sean Suchter
The major types of data they look at in the real time search stream:
Meta Data:

URL referrals
Retweet counts

Primary [...]

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With the launch of Bing I was curious to see how much traffic it would drive to my clients’ sites.  So I dug into Google Analytics and pulled out the following data for ten sites of varying sizes (Note to Google Analytics team: please put Bing.com referrals in the Search Engines report instead of the [...]

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At least for one search…

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