{"id":4952,"date":"2007-06-11T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/use-local-search-to-boost-your-targetted-traffic\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:20:08","slug":"use-local-search-to-boost-your-targetted-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/use-local-search-to-boost-your-targetted-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Local Search To Boost Your Targetted Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local search continues to grow in popularity. Not sure what Local Search is? Well, it&#8217;s a specific search engine which focusses on finding results that are within a specific geographic region. It&#8217;s most applicable to a person who is looking for a business or product in their immediate area.\u00a0 By ensuring your listed in the local search engines you improve your odds of getting additional targetted traffic.<\/p>\n<p>One small catch &#8211; not all local search engines are free, and they are not necessarily easy to get into. For example Google Local requires you to receive and respond to a postcard mailed to your physical address. It takes a little time but that&#8217;s how they verify your physical location and avoid spamming and poor quality data.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of local search engines worth considering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/local.aol.com\/aol\/localhome\" target=\"_blank\">AOL Local Search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/city.ask.com\/city\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Business Search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truelocal.com\" target=\"_blank\">True Local<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local search continues to grow in popularity. Not sure what Local Search is? Well, it&#8217;s a specific search engine which focusses on finding results that are within a specific geographic&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}