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  1. UK Local Search Directories
    January 2016https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/content/master-list-of-uk-local-search-directories
    ... Local Search is all about authority and consistency in your business' data across the Internet ... your local listing. ... Bing for UK Add Serves BT, Bing, Yahoo, 118118.com, 192.co,m touchlocal.com amongst ... page: http://www.wheresbest.co.uk/faq.php Yahoo ... Local Add The business listings on Yahoo Local are owned and managed ...
  2. What's New in Local Search for May 2016
    May 2016https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/whats-new-in-local-search-for-may-2016
    ... Once a month our in-house local expert, Mary Bowling, hands us her take on what's changed in the local ... Ads are tested in the Google Local Finder. ... YP.com makes a bid for Yahoo. ... Whatever fate holds in store for Yahoo, it's bound to be pretty complicated. ... Google absolutely crushes Bing and Yahoo in paid advertising for mobile search according to a recent ...
  3. Verizon Buys Yahoo for $4.83 Billion
    August 2016https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/verizon-buys-yahoo-for-4.83-billion
    ... To the surprise of many, Verizon announced that they would be acquiring Yahoo in a press release and ... The merging of these two tech giants will bring together over 1 Billion users, making Yahoo a company ... Yahoo put its core business up for auction as of February of this year. ... Yahoo will be integrated with AOL, which was also purchased by Verizon a little over a year ago. ... The public is also not convinced nor are they being kind to Yahoo about their track record. ...
  4. RIP Yahoo
    February 2017https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/rip-yahoo
    ... The rest of Yahoo is becoming Altaba once the sale is completed. ... investment company with stakes in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and the major Japanese Internet portal Yahoo ... Yahoo the Internet portal will be folded into Verizon and, for all practical purposes, the Yahoo we've ...
  5. Yahoo Workforce Expected to Be Cut
    February 2016https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/yahoo-workforce-expected-to-be-cut
    ... Struggling to right the ship for its shareholders, Yahoo is expected to begin laying off as much as 10% ... A 10% cut would be over 1000 employees losing their jobs but there is no official word from Yahoo nor ...
  6. Firefox switches to Google, ends three year partnership with Yahoo
    December 2017https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/firefox-switches-to-google-ends-three-year-partnership-with-yahoo
    ... Yahoo, which last year was purchased by Verizon in what Forbes called the "Saddest $5 Billion Deal ... So, what about Yahoo as a relevant search engine? ... anticipated demise of net neutrality, will Verizon saddle its users with their crappy search engine, "Yahoo ... Yahoo searches probably won't count toward Verizon's data plan while Google searches will — effectively ...
  7. What's New in Local Search October 2016
    October 2016https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/whats-new-in-local-search-october-2016
    ... Once a month our in-house local expert, Mary Bowling, hands us her take on what's changed in the local ... Local Pack results are affected by both local and organic signals. ... Rand's advice gains some credence from a local link building case study published by Local SEO Guide. ... People searching for local services on Yahoo will soon get the option of booking appointments and deliveries ... It's estimated that the value of the local services industry is 2.5 trillion dollars and even Yahoo is ...
  8. Brave New World: Top 7 Digital Marketing Predictions for 2017
    January 2017https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/content/a-brave-new-world-top-7-digital-marketing-predictions-for-2017
    ... From Google to Facebook to Yahoo and everyone in between, the underlying theme of last year was one of ... Yahoo fared the worst in 2016. ... Local Search Volatility: We predicted a volatile year in Local SEO and we got it right when ... Yahoo Sells off its Assets: We highly suspected Yahoo would have to bow to board pressure ... This could be HUGE for local small businesses! ...
  9. DMOZ Closing March 17th
    March 2017https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/dmoz-closing-march-17th
    ... been a long road since they first launched in June of 1998 to compete against the then all powerful Yahoo ...
  10. Your Practical Guide to Mobile SEO - Part 1
    August 2016https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/content/your-practical-guide-to-mobile-seo-part-1
    ... Google, Bing and Yahoo typically interpret mobile search as meaning LOCAL and therefore render mobile ... Thus, search ranking is tilted to favor local results. ... Having an optimized Google My Business and Yahoo Local page is critically important to rank well in ... Local is assumed. ... and Local Results. ...
  11. Outlook 365 Raises the Bar on Email Deliverability
    May 2020https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/outlook-365-raises-the-bar-on-email-deliverability
    ... However, due to the volume of spam email providers such as Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail and others are relying ...
  12. DuckDuckGo Gets Endorsement from Twitter CEO
    December 2019https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/duckduckgo-gets-endorsement-from-twitter-ceo
    ... However, DDG also scours the indexes of about 100 other “sources,” including Bing, Yahoo and Yandex ( ...
  13. 26 Years of SEN & Counting
    January 2023https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/content/26-years-of-sen-counting
    ... you may not have noticed Google rising through the ranks as they battled Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, Yahoo ...
  14. Pay Per Click Ad Strategies Digest for May 2019
    May 2019https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/pay-per-click-ad-strategies-digest-for-may-2019
    ... the fifth straight quarter, as Google spend growth decelerated to 16% Y/Y and spend across Bing and Yahoo ...
  15. 28 Years of SEN
    January 2025https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/content/28-years-of-sen
    ... If you're one of them, you remember the likes of Infoseek, AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo, among ...
  16. Local Ranking Documentation Update
    August 2025https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/local-ranking-documentation-update
    ... Last month Google updated its local ranking documentation, specifically the Tips to improve ... your local ranking on Google page. ... simplified—fewer details, fewer hedges, and a more direct approach to explaining what impacts your local ... Old Implication: This tied your local performance to your organic rankings. ... your local ecosystem (reviews, links), not just what’s on your homepage. ...
  17. Local Guide Reviews Stay On Top Longer
    January 2023https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/local-guide-reviews-stay-on-top-longer
    ... Yet another study published by Sterlingsky shows that on average, reviews by Google local ... guides stayed in the top 10 longer than reviews by non-local guides. ... As you probably know, Google's Local Guides is a community of people who write reviews, share photos ... It should be noted that a Local Guide is not always actually "local." ... Regardless, whether "local" or not, the study found that reviews left by Local Guides stayed at the top ...
  18. Study: 'Review Ratings' are the Biggest Driver of Clicks in Local
    November 2018https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/study-review-ratings-are-the-biggest-driver-of-clicks-in-local
    ... Bright Local just released a Local Services Ads click study that brought in 5,500 "Impartial internet ... users" to see how the presence of Local Service Ads affected how they interacted with Google's local ... Here are some key takeaways: Local Services Ads by Google receive 13.8% of local search clicks. ... When Local Services Ads are absent, this is 14.6% – a difference of 10.7%. ... Review ratings are the biggest driver of clicks in local search results. ...
  19. LSA Photo Guidelines Consolidated into One Doc
    November 2023https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/lsa-photo-guidelines-consolidated-into-one-doc
    ... Last month Google announced they'll be consolidating the existing Local Services ... On November 13, 2023, Google will update the Local Services platform policies. ... This update consolidates the existing Local Services Ads photos guidelines on the same page as the Local ... No changes to our enforcement practices towards Local Services Ads are expected with this update. ... For more information, please see the Local Services platform policies article in Google Ads. ...
  20. 'Must Read' 2017 Local Search Resources
    June 2017https://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/update/entry/must-read-2017-local-search-resources
    ... It's already June and we here at SEN have released a flurry of Local Search specific resources since ... Local Pack as much as Reviews and On-page content. ... Your 2017 Professional Local Search Audit Checklist - The Only Checklist to Local Search Auditing You ... It's designed to give you a complete picture of any local business' online presence. ... It's Time to Get Local with Your AdWords Campaigns - As Google continues to push ads into the Local Search ...