Category: Yellowpages.com

For those that missed the news this morning, I couldn’t be more excited to see @SIMPartners join the @Reputation_Com family! https://t.co/c1pqdtD9uy — Adam Dorfman (@phixed) February 28, 2018 While I did not expect Reputation.com to be the suitor, it is not surprising to see it embrace SIMPartners. Reputation.com has grown from a service that took care of those “caught with a hooker” search results for you to something that is starting to look like a full-service digital marketing solution. Here’s…

If SEMRush data is directionally correct, this may be a reason why Yelp is looking to sell. Should rebrand as Yikes! pic.twitter.com/UqplA4ZLSq — Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide) May 11, 2015 Perhaps SEMRush is still updating but if its organic search traffic graphs are even close to accurate it looks like May is the month that Google took care of all Local family business: YellowPages.com Superpages FourSquare DexKnows CitySearch InsiderPages  Merchant Circle Manta Barry Schwartz noted a Google Webmaster Forums thread on…

Greg reports on AT&T Interactive finally listening to me 😉 AT&T Interactive has opened up all the content on YP.com to third party developers. That means app developers will have access to YP.com’s 17 million local listings, maps, reviews/ratings and deals for free: Great list from Greg on free local data set providers. From Perry Evans in the comments: It also feels like we’re “racing to the bottom” for core directory data businesses. The value now has to be constructed…

In response to my post on how some of top local sites did in the Farmer Update, Yellowpages.com’s John Cole forwarded me the following traffic charts showing how their traffic has grown since the update. Week Over Week Comparison 2/20-2/26 v. 2/13-2/19 Week Over Week Comparison 2/23 -3/1 v. 2/16-2/22 Thanks for sharing John.  If any other readers have data they would like to share feel free to send it along. test

I thought it would be interesting to review the Quantcast data for the local-oriented sites in Quantcast’s Top 100 to see if anything has changed (of course take this data with a grain of salt) since the Google Farmer Update: Update: Some readers pointed out the non-Quantified sites I used were not showing the right data so I took down charts for Yellowpages.com, Weather.com, Yelp, Craigslist & Weatherbug.  In fact I have been told by Yellowpages.com that their traffic when…

In general you should know who your competition is in the SERPs, but Google just made it easier (unless I have totally missed this feature for months which is possible). I just noticed a “Pages similar to ” widget at the bottom of the results. Here’s what I got when I queried “localseoguide” It appears that GOOG is using a site’s homepage meta description tag to add the snippet after the link. As you can see from this query for…

I’m back after a day of schmoozing to liveblog David Krantz’s (CEO of AT&T Interactive) presentation. 1.8B searches on their network 20M unique visitors/mnth to Yellowpages.com 250% Mobile Search Growth 2008-2009 74% brand awareness for Yellowpages.com $89B U.S. Local Ad Spend – Local Interactive = 14% ($12B) 38% of all online search traffic is “local” 27M businesses listed on yellowpages.com He’s been talking a lot about the importance of social in a general way and hinted that it’s going to…

National IYPs (Internet Yellow Pages) have long been amongst the biggest benefactors of organic search engine traffic.  The typical IYP has north of 15MM business listings.  Add category pages, city pages, reviews, maps, etc and you are easily looking at a 50MM+ page site with a huge amount of high value & high volume keyword targets.  Many IYPs even use their Google rankings as part of their sales pitch.  When I got an email from one asking me to advertise…

According to TechCrunch, AT&T’s Yellowpages.com paid $3,850,000 for the YP.com domain when they purchased it from LiveDeal last month.  Here’s the SEC filing. So what does this mean for you?  My guess is there was not a lot to the YP.com domain other than its ability to rank for different searches around the term “yellow pages”. Here’s some data from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool for the avg. monthly search volume, cpc and est Google Rank of Yp.com for some…

I downloaded Yellowpages.com’s iPhone App this weekend and was psyched to give it a test run after hearing Frank Jules speak about it at Kelsey DMS last week.  The executive summary: not bad but needs work. It does its main function of allowing you to search for businesses fine.  And this may almost be enough – While driving with my wife I asked her to find the number for the local pizza place.  She immediately went to Google and it…