http://www.botwblog.org/regional-listings-and-the-future-of-search/ Find out what's happening behind the scenes at Best of the Web Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.botwblog.org/regional-listings-and-the-future-of-search/#comment-10014 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:05:22 +0000 http://www.botwblog.org/regional-listings-and-the-future-of-search/#comment-10014 [...] Submitting to these types of categories provide another example of regional relevancy to spiders. When a search spider visits a category in an authority directory, they should trust that when they find a site in the Boston/Restaurants/Pizza category that the business is a pizza place in Boston. As long as the directory is doing it’s job properly, these types of listings provide another citation and affirmation that the site is indeed what the spiders expect it to be. I wrote about specific examples of this back in Dec ’05 on the BOTW Blog (see BOTW Blog » Blog Archive » Regional Listings and the Future of Search). [...] […] Submitting to these types of categories provide another example of regional relevancy to spiders. When a search spider visits a category in an authority directory, they should trust that when they find a site in the Boston/Restaurants/Pizza category that the business is a pizza place in Boston. As long as the directory is doing it’s job properly, these types of listings provide another citation and affirmation that the site is indeed what the spiders expect it to be. I wrote about specific examples of this back in Dec ’05 on the BOTW Blog (see BOTW Blog » Blog Archive » Regional Listings and the Future of Search). […]

]]> http://www.botwblog.org/regional-listings-and-the-future-of-search/#comment-207 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:38:46 +0000 http://www.botwblog.org/regional-listings-and-the-future-of-search/#comment-207 [...] Local Search Heating Up - the local market expected to hit $13 billion by 2010. What is the future of local search?? [...] […] Local Search Heating Up - the local market expected to hit $13 billion by 2010. What is the future of local search?? […]

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