By Jen Doyle, Research Analyst

Effectiveness of Local Search 2008 vs. 2009


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Year over year, we see that more marketers believe they have enough experience to have an opinion on the effectiveness of local search -- and the opinion is quite favorable. As a searcher’s location becomes a standard bit of metadata to be factored into the PPC bid process, geotargeting is likely to become the norm.

On the other end of the geotargeting search equation, we see that landing pages are somewhat neglected. Survey results showed that few marketers were taking advantage of geolocation-specific messaging once the searcher clicked through. For retailers, in particular, this is a huge missed opportunity.

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