Yelp commissioned Nielsen to field a consumer survey on where Americans intend to do their holiday shopping this season and what gets them shopping at local businesses.
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Facebook announced a new ad product for local businesses called Local Awareness ads. These let businesses find new customers by showing ads to groups of people who are near that bu...
Google released a new series of videos under the banner "Bring Your Local Business Online". They total thirty minutes, and give businesses advice for doing just that even without a...
BIA/Kelsey is estimating that spending on local media by SMBs will reach $50.4 billion in 2015 at 35.8% of total local media spending. SMBs, it says, will allocate $37.7 billion of...
Groupon announced that it is giving local businesses a new time-based deals option that enables them to accept reservations or take appointments so they have more control over when...
Yelp announced some big news late on Tuesday. They've increased the call limit on their API to 25,000 per day, and made it easier for developers to use, in addition to opening it u...
Yelp announced on Wednesday that it has issued a new round of Consumer Alerts, the warnings that appear on businesses' Yelp pages informing users that they're not to be trusted. Th...
Some businesses may soon find that their ratings on Google have changed for better or for worse. They're doing away with old anonymous Zagat reviews - the ones where the person's n...
Yelp is taking some harsh criticism in the media once again. Its handling of fake reviews is coming under fire, as is its worth to consumers. Business owners are speaking out (as u...
Google has run into some "complications" upgrading local businesses to the new Places dashboard.
In some cases, businesses' accounts and another accounts that they don’t control...
Google announced that it has made some tweaks to the Google Places Quality Guidelines, specifically for business names. The changes illustrate how you can add descriptors.
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Yelp announced that it is rolling out a new site design along with a new look for business pages. Rather than making a few teaks, the've elected to take the "from the ground up" ap...
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