Zvents just pinged me that they have raised $24 million in funding from Nokia Growth Partners, AT&T and NAVTEQ. Zvents is an aggregator of local events information and they syndicate their data out to publishers such as newspapers like the Denver Post and portals like MSN’s City Guides.
So why should you care?
When it comes to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'local events'
Zvents.com Raises $24MM for Events Based SEO
September 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Local Data · Local Search · Newspapers Online · local events
Beijing ‘08: And The Gold Medal For SEO Goes To…
September 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
This is the kind of post that makes writing this blog worth it. Well done Bobby.
Tags: local events
Local Search Optimization & Zipcode Search
June 5th, 2008 · 19 Comments
Robin Goad of Hitwise just posted some data on postcode searches and seo (”postcode” sounds so much more polite than “zip code” doesn’t it?). He noticed an increase in searches for a specific postcode - b78 3tw - and figured out that it was related to people searching for directions for the Drayton Manor Park [...]
Tags: Local Search · local events
Event-Based SEO - Fish Where The Fish Are
March 31st, 2008 · 10 Comments
Trade shows and professional gatherings such as Meetups can be great for your business. You get access to a lot of potential customers in one place and they are usually there to do business. So what’s the next best thing to going to a trade show? Ranking at the top of Google for searches for [...]
Tags: Local Search · local events



