Bing Brandfinder
Bing Brandfinder is an advertising opportunity available on Bing Maps. Available since 2008 (released with Highlighted Listings), we recently took a second look at this placement option for our...
View ArticleDavid Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors Released
It’s an exciting time of year: pros in sneakers are giving it their all, bets are placed on winning strategies and a guy named David is calling the shots. No, I’m not talking about the NBA Finals. The...
View ArticleApple Maps Release Announced
Guest Author Leann McGlasson is a race car driver, photographer and Operations Manager at Location3. Releasing this fall is Apple’s latest iOS 6 update and one of its most notable features is Apple’s...
View ArticleHow to Maintain Data Integrity in Local Listing Management
Franchise and multi-unit businesses face unique challenges when it comes to managing the online listings for hundreds or thousands of locations. Consider a common scenario in a typical multi-unit...
View ArticleGoogle+ Local Round 2
Google will be rolling out a second round of updates and changes to the Google Places-Google+ Local merge that first occurred on May 31. To best prepare you for these changes, we have some...
View ArticleCheck out the New Yahoo! Listing Management Interface
Yahoo! has been experiencing various changes lately. For starters, if you’ve missed the news, former Google employee Marissa Mayer, was named Yahoo!’s latest CEO on Monday, July 16th. The day following...
View ArticleGoogle Location Targeting Improvements
Google’s been busy rolling out updated location targeting options. Here is a quick peak at the newest additions: Canadian Postal Code FSAs Franchise and multi-unit systems in Canada rejoice! Four...
View ArticleLocation3 Presenting at Foodservice Social Media Conference
There’s nothing more social than gathering friends together to share a drink and a meal, so it only makes sense that the global restaurant industry has its own social-business community. Front of the...
View ArticleGoogle Custom Targeting Officially Dead
Many people still holding onto their custom shapes in Google were surprised by an e-mail in their inbox announcing that custom shapes will be officially removed by the end of the day on September,...
View ArticleDoes your local SEO have a national strategy?
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the free range, gourmet feed shop that he found after searching “corn store in pigeon forge” in Google on his iPhone and clicking on a localized organic...
View ArticleOptimizing Business Pages for Facebook Graph Search
To piggy back on Angie’s article yesterday about the launch of Facebook Graph Search, I wanted to provide a little more information specific to how to give your business and place pages their best...
View ArticleGoogle Introduces Zavers
On the heels of their announcement that Google Punchd, will be defunct in the next few months, Google announces the re-release of their newest loyalty and savings product, Zavers. Google purchased...
View ArticleLocation3 at IFA Annual Convention for Sixth Straight Year
Location3 Media is excited to announce our presence at the International Franchise Association’s 53rd Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV this month! We’ll be located at Booth #310 providing franchise...
View ArticleIntegrated Digital Marketing for Franchise Systems
In case you missed our webinar “Integrated Digital Marketing for Franchise Systems”, co-hosted by Google, we wanted to give a recap of the great content outlining why integrated digital strategies are...
View ArticleNational or Local PPC for Franchise Brands?
Photo credit: Sean Molin Photography In talking with a few high-octane brands at recent industry conferences and events, I’ve been alarmed at how their national pay-per-click (PPC) programs are...
View ArticleFree White Paper: Location3 Releases “The Future of Search”
As digital marketing experts, we often find ourselves publishing content that aims to assist clients, partners, and peers in our industry. Many times we get tactical when talking about the ways in...
View ArticleGoogle AdWords and The Impact of Mobile Search Ads
The second installment from Google regarding “Search Ads Pause” recently revealed that 88% of ad clicks from mobile search are incremental to organic clicks. Meaning, paid clicks aren’t replaced by...
View ArticleLocation3 Partners with Google’s Wildfire Social Media Team to Present Free...
Continuing efforts to provide free educational information on industry trends to a variety of audiences, Location3 is pleased to announce that we will co-present a free webinar on August 21st, 2013 at...
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