Mobile phones in Europe have reached 110% saturation, with some countries at 120 or 140%. In Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong are at 140% saturation, and China adds at least 6 million new mobile phones every month. India also adds another 7 million phones each month. In the US, mobile phones are [...]

For a while, the school of thought has been that in addition to a top level domain for a particular country (.co.uk, .de, etc.), you needed to have local hosting, i.e. your French site is .fr and is hosted (if possible) in France.  The IP address of the site is readable by the search engines, [...]

Have you found yourself wondering how on earth you’re going to find local 2.0 websites for countries other than your own? Greg Sterling has alerted us that Michael Bauer of Koano has has helped us in this task with his latest site, Local-20. Here you’ll find information, screen shots, and reviews of [...]

Local search is a great way to get you noticed.  In the US, local search is big business (and it even just recently had its own SEO convention in California).  To find products and services near you, it’s handy to be able to type in a search like “carpet cleaning Minneapolis” or “bakery supplies Chicago.”  [...]