Comments on: Wot No Google Local Search

By: Business Management Consulting

Business Management Consulting — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:59:20 +0000

What I noticed was when it’s my first time to open a browser in a day (with a homepage google.com), google will redirect me to it’s country specific url. In my case, I got redirected to google.com.ph where when used, I got results mostly from local. But I do have the option to turn back to google.com

I think what google is trying to do is that if you are looking for country specific results, you must go to it’s country specific URLs. Else, you can use the keyword(s) + country on the search to give them a hint that you want local results.

By: Seiska

Seiska — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:03:50 +0000

The country search works pretty good where I live and we don’t have that kind of local search functionality cause we are minority to search engines. But when I need to get the global or US search results it’s not so easy sometime cause google will always redirect me to counrty specific results. So I would like to have non local search sometimes to be more easy.

By: Producent Schodow

Producent Schodow — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:28:01 +0000

I would say that local search is not important to me. But not because I don’t use search engines but because everything could be found easily without “local” option. I know that for beginners and people who does not share ability to fluently run around the web this is quite difficulty. But everything you need to do is to write a word that makes your search local. If you’re from Canada write Canada. IF you’re from Florida, write Florida. And that is all local search you need. Want to eat dinner at restaurant with beef meals, writ dinner, Florida, beef – and there are your results! Very local. And there is nothing more you need.

By: Ronnie Sullivan

Ronnie Sullivan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:57:29 +0000

Totally agree with you ..

By: jlbraaten

jlbraaten — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:38:34 +0000

I’ve heard many SEO say that Local search is where SEO in general was in about 2003-2004. It’s relatively new, the algorithm is pretty basic, and the vast vast majority of businesses haven’t claimed their listing.

I’m guessing Google’s approach is part marketing, part engineering.
Marketing – If Local is still growing but is by no means mainstream, wouldn’t it make sense to show the 10 box (local results) as part of the normal SERPs? Folks will begin to notice that local is an option and then interact with those features more and more
Engineering – Perhaps the prevailing thought by Google is that you shouldn’t need to have a separate local page? Maybe they feel that the user should just have to search and the algorithm should take it from there.

Those are my thoughts. I’d be curious to see what others think.