I've written about it before, and I'll write about it again: the only phonebooks around my work desk are the ones raising it and the monitor a few inches higher than they'd otherwise sit. Local search functions well from a consumer standpoint, and a session detailed how businesses can benefit from it, too.
"Numbers without context are just numbers," according to Matt Bailey, the founder of Site Logic Marketing. So in a session titled "Web Analytics," Bailey walked an audience through what they need to know about their sites and statistics.
"Optimize, optimize, optimize," some SEO experts will say, and that's fine as far as it goes. But the question of what to optimize for - and how far to take the process - was addressed in a session called "Keywords and Content."
It's possible to spend thousands of dollars - or read tens of thousands of words - and still get nowhere in the world of online marketing. A session titled "A Common Sense Approach to Online Marketing" tried to highlight the essentials, however, since the path to success can be relatively simple.