The Power of Local Mobile Search

The Power of Search used to be a strictly desktop affair. That's changing. Local Mobile Search loal search volume is growing exponentially at 50% every year . 1 billion local searches per month in 2009 1.5 billion local searches 2010 2.3 billion local searches 2011 3.45 billion local searches 2012 80% of searchers research online before purchasing in a 10-20, mile radius Almost Every Local Search... Search More than 4,000,000 Map Listings Claimed (14% of businsses in the US have claimed theirs) .Automatically Includes Mapped Results That was almost 1.28 billion searches in March 2010 www.blumenthals.com - April 29, 2010 E 1230 N S Brigham Univer Or 20% of Google Search Volume www.bluementhals.com - April 29, 2010 - E 800 N m C And while 89% of consumers shop for info online www.seomoz.org/dp/free-charts Joaquin 89 D 93% of retail sales happen offline www.seomoz.org/dp/free-charts r St (114 Provo O As the connections are of half right from phones. to the internet now The #1 access method for local information with 20.7 million users per month is the mobile browser Design by Dan Gafed or OrangesODA" ONUHE MARETING WITH EE http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/6/comScore_Reports_Mobile_Audience_for_Local_Content_Grows 51_Percent_vs._Year_Ago http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/3/Daily_Mobile_Internet_Usage_Grows/(language)/eng-US http://www.seomoz.org/dp/free-charts http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/local-seolocal-search-q1-2010/ http://blumenthals.com/blog/2010/04/29/how-often-does-google-show-a-map-more-than-a-1-billion-times-per-month/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/29/mobile-and-social-platforms-want-to-be-the-king-of-local-search/ N 900 E StI S g00